Hitlers rise 1919-33 Flashcards
(15 cards)
Hitler joined the German Workers Party (DAP)
Joined September 1919
German workers party set up February 1919
Hitler second in command and new name
1920
August - Hitler suggests name change to National Socialist German workers party (NSDAP) or Nazis
25 Point Programme
Written by Hitler and Drexler in 1920
- Increased pensions for the elderly
- Nationalise industries
- Get rid of treaty of Versailles
- Everybody should have job
- Build up Germanys armed forces
- Only German races can be citizens - no Jews
- Expand Germany across new territory to feed the people and to settle surplus population - Lebensraum
- All citizens should have equal rights and duties
- Every hard working German should have a chance at higher education
- State must protect mothers and infants
The Sturmabteilung (SA)
August 1921 - Hitler
- Paramilitary force
- Set up by Hitler and run by Ernst Rohm
- Brownshirts
- Used to disrupt opposition and control crowds
The Munich (Beer Hall) Putsch
November 1923
Reasons for:
Long Term: Stab in the back
Reparations
Loss of German
colonies
Resentment of
Weimar
Medium Term: Mussolinis right
wing uprising in
Italy - 1922
Short Term: Hyperinflation
French invasion of
Ruhr - 1923
Hitler though he
had support
Events:
8th November 1923 - Hitler and 600 SA storm a Bavarian government meeting in Munich
At Gunpoint Hitler forced the leaders to support him - Rohm took over police Headquarters - Ludendorff let the leaders go
9th November 1923 - Hitler gathered 1000 SA and 2000 volunteer supporters and marched on Munich to declare himself President
Met by state police - open fire and chaos
11th November - Hitler arrested
Consequences:
- Used trail to publicise views
- Arrested and NSDAP banned
- Mein Kampf
- Rethink parties tactics
Bamberg Conference
1926
Hitler organised this to address the split between the socialist and nationalist wings of the Nazi Party
Wall Street Crash
October 1929 - US companies lost billions of dollars overnight
- US stopped lending money to Germany and demanded all loans be repaid
German businesses - Had to pay back loans, no more US investment, had to pay increased taxes to government
German government - couldn’t borrow US money, refused to print more money, increased taxes, cut wages and benefits
German People - unemployment rose
Hitlers propaganda
Hitler used propaganda techniques to persuade:
- Business people he could solve the economic crisis
- Working class people he could give them work and food
- Middle-class people he would protect them from communists, solve the economic crisis and return traditional German values
- Rural communities that he could protect them from the communists
- Young people to join as it was an exciting opportunity
- Women that the Nazis would help their families
April 1932
Hindenburg stands for re-election
No one party has 50% of the vote
Chancellor Bruning bans the SA
May 1932
Hitler re-elected as President
Chancellor Bruning resigns and replaced by Von Papen who is put forwards by Von Schleicher
Von Schleicher planning a coalition between right-wing and Nazis
Hitler agrees if SA ban lifted
The coalition takes power
July 1932
Further elections take place - widespread fighting between the communists and the Nazis
The Nazis share of the vote increases from 18% in 1930 to 38%
Hitler demands to be made Chancellor - Hindenburg refuses
November 1932
Further elections
Von Schleicher warns Hindenburg that there will be civil war if Von Papen stays as Chancellor
December 1932
Von Schleicher becomes Chancellor
January 1933
Von Schleicher does not have the public or Nazis support
Von Papen convinces Hindenburg to put Hitler as Chancellor and him as Vice Chancellor
Hitler becomes Chancellor
January 1933
