Hitler's rise to power

By luizagamaral

  • End of World War 1

    Stab in the Back

  • Hitler joins the German Workers Party

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • Creation of the democratic Weimar Republic

  • Foundation of the Nazi party

  • Hitler becomes chairman of the Nazi Party

    The party is also renamed National Socialist German Workers’ Party

  • The Occupation of the Ruhr

  • Beer Hall Putsch

    In attempt to overthrow the German government, Hitler is arrested.

  • Dawes Plan

  • Hitler is released from prison

    After ten months, Hitler is released from prison

  • Paul von Hindenburg is elected president of Germany.

  • Hitler publishes "Mein Kampf"

  • Hitler forms a personal bodyguard unit separate from the SA, known as the SS.

  • Young Plan

  • The New York Stock Market begins to crash

    The New York Market crash caused a great economic depression in America and around the world. As the German economy was made dependent on the United States by the Dawes plan, it began to collapse.

  • The NSDAP becomes the second largest party in Germany

  • Hermann Göring becomes president of the Reichstag

    Hermann Göring, long a leading Nazi and a link between Hitler and the aristocracy, becomes president of the Reichstag and uses his new power to manipulate events.

  • The Reichstag Fire

  • The first concentration camps are established for political prisoners

  • The Enabling Act

  • The Nazis reorganise and take control of the local government

  • Trade unions are abolished and their leaders arrested

    Which eliminates another group that opposed the Nazis; the German Labour Front is established in their place

  • Hitler reaches an agreement with the Pope

    Concordat (Hitler reaches an agreement with the Pope that states that the Catholic Church will be protected but will stay out of politics; the Catholic Zentrum party is banned)

  • All political parties are banned

    Expect the Nazis; destruction of democracy (removing needs for elections, creating a one-party state)

  • People's courts

    Hitler sets up the courts where judges have to swear loyalty to the Nazis; Nazis gain more power to sentence enemies

  • Night of the Long Knives

  • The Fuhrer

    President Hindenburg dies of old age → Hitler unifies the offices Chancellor and President and became the head of the German Army