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Hitler releases his book "Mein Kampf" that he had written in jail. The book served as an outline of his rise to power, there he explained the means he would use to achieve power, expand German territory and control / get rid of the Jewish community. After the failed coup and while writing his book, Hitler realized that the correct way of achieving power was through the democratic system and not through an armed revolution. In the book he also expressed his feeling about the November Criminals.
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Black Tuesday represents the day of the New York Stock Market crash. This served as a perfect opportunity for Hitler to criticize and attack the Weimar's Republic economic system. It also launched Germany into a period of low moral, thus way making the people more attracted to extremists options and agendas like the ones Hitler and the Nazi Party had to offer.
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On the night of the 27th of February of 1933, the Reichstag building, home to the German Parliament, was burnt down to the ground. As the police analyzed the place after the fire, they found the body of a known German communist in the building. This served as a reason to blame the fire on the communists, who were, together with the Jews, the Nazi's escape goats. Hitler used this blaming of the communists to imprison communist leaders. Therefore, getting rid of his major parliamentary opposition.
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The night of the Long Knives was a three day purge organized by the Nazi Party and executed by the SS, SD and Gestapo, the first two being paramilitary groups and the last one being the secret police. The idea of this purge was to execute Hitler's major political opponents at the moment and people he seen as a threat. One of those killed during this event was SA leader Ernst Rohm. Rohm used to be Hitler's political ally but Hitler started to fear the SA's influence and thus they became rivals.
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The night of broken glass or Kristallnacht was a pogrom organized by the Nazi Party in order to get "revenge" on the Jewish people because of the murder of a German diplomat called Ernst Vom Rath. During this night, synagogues were burnt down, Jewish owned shops destroyed and Jewish people lynched on the streets. This event helped Hitler to expand his anti semitic agenda, using Adolf Eichmann, Vom Rath's killer, as an example of Jewish behaviour and also a reason to expel all Jews from Germany.