1. WARM UP – November 14 Answer the following questions on a post-it:
1. What are you buying if you buy stock in a company? What is speculation and what is buying on margin?
2. What effects did the Great Depression have on people living in cities?
3. What were Hoovervilles? What are some things that people did as a result of the Great Depression to survive?
4. What effects did the Great Depression have on the global economy? What did people want as a result of the Great Depression in Germany?

2. Great Depression in Germany Reading questions
Answer the following questions on the same post it as the warm up:
1. What was the United States providing to Germany before the Great Depression?
2. What effects did the Great Depression have on Germans?
3. What did the effects of the Great Depression force many German voters to abandon?
4. What economic and social effects did the Wall Street crash have on America?
5. How many Germans were without a job by the end of 1929?
6. What effects did the Great Depression have on German society?
7. What effects did it have on children in Germany?
8. Who was the real beneficiary of the failure of the Weimar Republic to respond to the effects of the Great Depression? What happened to the membership of Hitler’s Nazi Party as a result?

3. The Rise of Adolf Hitler
Unit 8: World War II
The Rise of Adolf Hitler

5. The Rise of Adolf Hitler
1.  Setting the Stage: World War I
Although an Austrian, Hitler joined the German army in WWI
Hitler was never an officer and was wounded in leg
Temporarily blinded by mustard gas; while in hospital he became convinced that his purpose in life was to “Save Germany”
On Nov 11, 1918, Germany agreed to an armistice ---> angered Hitler
Hitler called those who surrendered “November Criminals”

6. The Rise of Adolf Hitler
Setting the Stage: World War I
f.   In 1919 Germany forced to accept terms of the Treaty of Versailles:
War Guilt clause: Blame
Loss of land
Loss of $$$
Disarmament
Had to form a democracy: Weimar Republic

7. The Rise of Adolf Hitler
Rise of the Nazi Party
In 1920, Hitler helps form the Nazi Party (German Nationalist Socialists Party)
Beer Hall Putsch: Hitler and his Nazis try to overthrow the new democracy in a large beer hall in Munich.
16 of his men are killed. Hitler flees and is later arrested on high treason.
While in prison Hitler writes “Mein Kampf”
Learns lesson: Must destroy democracy from within
Served 8 months and was released

8. Paul von Hindenber

9. The Rise of Adolf Hitler
Hitler Takes Control
In 1925 Paul von Hindenburg elected President of the Weimar Republic
By 1932 the Nazi Party had become the largest part in the Reichstag; 38% majority (Similar to Parliament or Congress)
Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933 (2nd in command)
February 1933 the Reichstag burned down; blamed on Communists
Reichstag responded by suppressing communists and others and passed the “Enabling Act” which transferred its power to the president (dissolved power of Reichstag)
1934 President Von Hindenburg died & Hitler was declared “The Fuhrer” – The Dictator

10. Reichstag Today

11. Reichstag Fire

12. The Rise of Adolf Hitler
Prelude to the Holocaust & World War II
Anti-Semitism, or hatred of Jews, already existed in the hearts of many Europeans
Nuremberg Laws were passed allowing gov’t to legally discriminate against Jews.
Examples of Nuremberg Laws:
Jews were stripped of German citizenship (could no longer vote)
Marriage between Jews & Germans was forbidden
Jews were excluded from public office, practicing law, medicine, teaching
Jews had curfews, had to wear a yellow star for public ID
Allowed for open & legal terrorism against Jews

13. The Rise of Adolf Hitler
This led to a 3 step process
Development of Jewish ghettos in cities
Concentration Camps became sites of forced labor and murder
Genocide – mass killing of over six million jews

14. The Rise of Adolf Hitler
1938 Kristallnacht:
The Night of Broken Glass – anti-Semitic riots in Germany and Austria
30,000 Jews rounded up and taken to Concentration camps
Homes, business, and synagogues destroyed

15. The Rise of Adolf Hitler
1939 Hitler invades Poland and starts World War II
He continued efforts to unite all people of German blood or Aryans under “The Master Race”
He called his empire the Third Reich

16. The Rise of Adolf Hitler
Result: Hitler used democracy to destroy democracy. Once he became “Der Fuhrer,” he ruled Germany as a ruthless dictator and used his power to take over several countries and murder millions.

17. T-O-D: November 14
Answer the following questions on the same post-it as the warm up:
1. What did Hitler learn following the failure of the Beer Hall Putsch?
2. What are two things that Hitler blamed on Jews and Communists so that he could gain support and turn people against those two groups?
3. What were the purpose of the Nuremburg Laws? Provide 2 examples of the laws
4. What was Kristallnacht? What did Hitler ultimately want to create?