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Honors World HistoryMr. Green

The students will explain the rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany by describing the process by which Hitler grabbed power in Germany

Announcement: There were be a bi-weekly World History Review Session today in Mr. Gregg’s Room.

Announcement: Chapter 17 Test on Wednesday

Hand-in: Class work from yesterdayWarm-up: 5 Question QuizDrill: Who was Adolf Hitler

Objective/Warm-up

Hitler and His ViewsBorn in Austria 4/20/1889Wanted to be an artist, but was rejectedServed 4 years in WWI1919 joined the German Workers’ Party1921-Hitler had control of party and renamed it National

Socialist German Workers’ Party or NAZI for short55,000 members-15,000 in the party militia known as

Brown ShirtsTried to overthrow the government in Nov. 1923

Beer Hall PutschServed jail timeWrote Mein Kampf-My Struggle

Hitler and Nazi Germany

The NAZI party expanded to become a national political party

Became largest party in the Reichstagunemployment roseGreat Depression people believed

The NAZI’s take controlPresident Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor in 1933Enabling Act

Reichstag allowed government to suspend the constitution for 4 years to put the country back together

Rise of Nazism

Purged civil service of Jews and democratic elements

Set up concentration campsTrade unions dissolvedAll political parties dissolved except for the

NAZI partyPresident Hindenburg died in 1934 and his

office was abolishedFuhrer now in total control

Cont’d

Wanted to establish an Aryan racespeak Indo-European languagenot a race

Create a 3rd ReichCreation of a totalitarian state in many ways

economic policiesmass spectaclesorganizationsterror

The NAZI state 1933-1941

SS originally Hitler’s personal bodyguardHeinrich Himmlerused terror and ideology

concentration campsfurther the Aryan race

The State and Terror

Hitler used public works projects and grants to private construction firms

Drastically reduced unemploymentRearmament programMany gave the credit to the NAZIs

Economics and Spectacles

1. Describe the positions Hitler takes in Mein Kampf.

2. Describe the emotional response many Germans experienced at Hitler’s rallies.

3. Explain why a dictator would want to remove the constitution from a country.

4. Identify the key to solving the unemployment problem.

5. Identify reasons the German people supported the NAZI party.

Independent Work

Call on individual students with questions from the lesson

Lesson Assessment

Read Section 2, pages 573-579 and be prepared for a 5 Question Quiz over the reading on Thursday.

Homework