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The Party was a small political party that came out of the previous German government. The Party believed in nationalism and anti-jewish ideas.
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Hilter declared himself the absolute leader of the Party. He blamed groups in Germany as the problems and he started to plot to demolish the German state.
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Hitler is arrested trying to overthrow the government. The trial gave the Party publicly making the group popular with farmers, small business owners, and middle-class members who felt betrayed.
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The Great Depression caused people to turn to more radical parties like the Nazis. This allowed the Nazis to increase their share of the Reichstag vote.
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Hitler approves the building of concentration camps to hold political prisoners who had disagreed with the Nazis.
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Franz Von Papen told President Von Hindenburg that they can use Hilter's voting power of the NSDAP and they can surround him with carefully chosen advisers to control his radical views. Hindenburg agreed, offering Adolf Hitler the chancellorship and to form a government.
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There was a destructive fire in the Reichstag building in Berlin. This allowed Hitler to declare a state of emergency. When accepted Hitler is able to gain ultimate power over the state and their people.
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The Nazis introduce the Enabling Act allowing Hitler to govern without restrictions.
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President Hindenburg dies and Hitler takes over the government, being titled as fuehrer.
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Hitler reinstituted the draft. The following year he presented his Four-year plan which was a schedule preparing the nation's military for war.
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The Austrian chancellor pushed for Austrian independence but after Britain and France refused to help him against the Nazis, he resigned. German forces invaded the following day and Hitler united German and Austria under the same government.
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Hitler, the British prime minister, the Italian prime minister, and the France prime minister made an agreement that allowed the Nazis to take over Sudetenland seeing that Hitler would not go any farther into Czechoslovakia.
