-
Period: to
Hitler's rise to power
-
The Munich Putsch
Also known as the Beer Hall Putsch. It was lead by Hitler and the Nazi party. They started in Minich trying to seize control of the state government. The grand plan was to march on to Berlin and overthrow the government and establish a new government to unify a Greater German Reich. This idea failed and nine people, including Hitler, were proesecuted. However these were thought of as heroic efforts to save the nation. This integrated into the Nazi's rise to power. -
The writing of Hitler's Mein Kampf
The Mein Kampf was basically Hitler's blueprint of his agenda for a thrid reich in Germany. He wrote the book while he was serving time in prison for his Beer Hall Putsch scandal. When he got out he published it and it sold over 9,000 copies. In the book he discuses the need for racial purity and the power Nazis will have. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
President Paul Von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist German workers party, as chancellor of Germany. -
Hindenburg dies, Hitler gains power
Hitler plannned to use President Hindenburg's death as an opportunity to seize total power in Germany by elevating himself to the position of Furer. -
The Nuremberg Laws
At the annual party rally held in Nuremberg in 1935, the Nazis announced new laws which were made to exclude German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from most political rights. -
Annexation of Austria
Austria was Hitler's birth country and was the first country to be annexed by Hitler's Nazi Germany. Austrian Nazis tried many times to over take the government and they united their faceswith Hitler's German Nazis and they came to agree that Austrian forces not to resist a German "advance" into the country. The next day Hitler lead the German troops into Austria. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht took place on November 9 and 10, 1938 in Germany, Austria, and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. It was violent anti-Jewish attacks. -
Non-aggression pact with Russia
Shortly before world war 2 broke out in Europe, enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German/Soviet Nonaggression pact. In which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next ten years. -
Invasion of Poland
The Polish army was defeated in weeks. With more than two thousand tanks and over one thousand planes, they broke through the Polish defense along the border and advanced warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. -
Invasion of Russia
Operation Barbarossa was the largest Germany military operation of World War 2. Germany wanted to elimate the Russian communist threat and seize their prime land. They started with 134 divisions at full strength and 73 more behind the front line. By invading Hitler directly disobeyed the German-Soviet nonaggression pact. Initially Germany started off strong but towards the end Russia came back and overpowered them.
