1. World War II & The Holocaust

2. Part I: Hitler’s Rise to power

3. 1919 – WWI Problems Treaty of Versailles Took away land
Forced Acceptance of Blame for WWI
Limits on military
Required reparations
No occupation of Germany

4. 1921
Political parties formed in the new German democracy - Weimar Republic
One of these was the National Socialist Party (a.k.a. Nazi) led by Hitler

5. 1923 Beer hall (Munich) putsch
Hitler’s first attempt to take over part of the Weimar Republic.
5 year prison sentence, served 8 months

6. 1929 Us Stock market crashes
Causes a world recession making the Weimar Republic even poorer
Makes U.S. become isolationist

7. 1930
The Depression allows the growing Nazi party to win many elections

8. Part II: You Tricked Me
Oops, I did it again

9. 1933 President appointed Hitler Chancellor.
Nazis organize Reichstag burning
Hitler requests and is granted emergency powers.
Book burnings begin

10. 1934
Night of the long knives

11. 1935
Hitler begins illegally rebuilding the German army

12. 1936
Germany occupies the Rhineland (demilitarized zone taken during WWI)

13. 1938 Hitler announces “Anschluss” (joining) with Austria
German troops occupy the Sudentenland

14. 1939 Nazis occupy Czecholslovakia Hitler signs pact with Soviet Union
Nazis invade Poland and it is divided with the Soviet Union

15. 1940
France signs armistice with hitler

16. 1941
Nazis begin war in North Africa
Nazis attack ?????

17. 1942
U.S. finally enters the war after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

18. Holocaust

19. 1933 Jews prohibited from owning land
Jews prohibited from newspaper editing
First concentration camps open

20. 1935
Jews prohibited from full citizenship

21. 1938 Jews must register all businesses and property with authorities
Jews must apply for identity cards
Jews prohibited from medicine and law
Jews expelled from regular schools

22. 1939 Jews lose tenant rights and are moved into ghettos
Curfews set at 8pm
Wireless radios are forbidden

23. 1939 Jews required to wear a yellow star
Nazis begin euthanasia program for the sick and disabled

24. 1941 Jews ordered into forced labor Einsatzgruppen begin mass murder
1st death camp opens