the rise of fascism

  • Spartacist coup d ètat

    Spartacist coup d ètat
    general strike and the armed struggles in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919, that being quelled gave virtually ended the November Revolution.
    The name is widespread use, although in reality the Spartacist League, which later became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), and began the uprising of workers and soldiers nor directed him but cooperated with the rising once started.
  • abdication of the German Emperor and the creation of Weich republic

    abdication of the German Emperor and the creation of Weich republic
    historical period that took place in Germany after its defeat at the end of the First World War and lasted between 1919 and 1933. The name Weimar Republic is a term applied by subsequent historiography, since the country retained its name Deutsches Reich ('German Empire'). The name comes from the homonymous city, Weimar, where the Constituent National Assembly met and the new constitution, which was adopted on 31 July and entered into force on 11 August 1919 was proclaimed.
  • Adolf Hitler founded the NSDAP

    Adolf Hitler founded the NSDAP
    It existed in Germany between 1919 and 1945. The Socialista Obrero full name was German National Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), whose abbreviation in German was "Nazi." Originally called German Workers Party, its name was changed to National Socialist German Workers Party in 1920. In the hands of Adolf Hitler, this political party came to power in Germany in 1933.
  • Munich Putsch

    Munich Putsch
    It is known as the Beer Hall Putsch failed attempt coup on 8 and 9 November 1923 in Munich, conducted by members of the NSDAP Socialist German Workers (NSDAP) and for which they were tried and sentenced to prison Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Hess, among other Nazi leaders.
  • crack 29

    crack 29
    also it is known as black Thursday was the largest ever known crisis that erupted on 24 October 1929. On this date the stock exchange on Wall Street in New York suffered a drop in prices. This caused the ruin of many investors, both large and small businessman shareholders, closing companies and banks. This led to unemployment to millions of citizens. This in many European countries moved
  • The nazi party wins the elections

    The nazi party wins the elections
    Parliamentary elections in the Weimar Republic octaves took place on November 6, 1932, for the purpose of electing members of the Reichstag. These elections were advanced after the Chancellor Franz von Papen dissolved the Parliament for the second time. The Nazi Party remained the main political force in Germany, but lost 34 seats. These would be the last German democratic elections since 1933 would be conducted under an atmosphere of repression by the new Nazi government.
  • Hindenburg named Hitler chancellor

    Hindenburg named Hitler chancellor
    In 1932, Hindenburg was reelected in the presidential election, defeating Adolf Hitler, its main contender. However, in January 1933, Hindenburg appointed him Chancellor. After the death of Hindenburg in 1934, Hitler also assumed the position of head of state under the title Führer und Reichskanzler (translatable as "Caudillo and Chancellor of the Reich"), consolidating its power of totalitarian government.
  • Reichstag fire

    Reichstag fire
    on February 27, 1933, during the election campaign, the German parliament was destroyed by the flames. Some historians have pointed to a possible manipulation of the Nazis to blame responsibility for this to the Communists. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that some witnesses reported seeing more than one person in the building, and use post that Hitler and his party made this event, including ilegalizarlos, attributing a conspiracy to end German political stability.
  • Night of the long knives

    Night of the long knives
    purge that took place in Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political assassinations. It may be included within the scope of acts that made the National Socialist German Workers Party to seize all structures of the German state.
  • prohibition of marriage between Jews and Aryan

    prohibition of marriage between Jews and Aryan
    law racist and anti-Semitic Nazi Germany adopted unanimously on 15 September 1935 during the seventh annual congress of the NSDAP (Reichsparteitag) held in the city of Nuremberg (Germany).
  • Night of the broken glasses

    Night of the broken glasses
    series of pogroms and blended attacks that occurred in Nazi Germany (comprising Austria also) during the night of 9 to 10 November 1938 and carried out against Jewish citizens by the assault troops of the SA together with the civilian population, while German authorities watched without intervening.
  • final solution

    final solution
    Nazi plan to carry out the systematic genocide of European Jewry during World War II. Only after the war it became known to the "final solution" as the Holocaust or Shoah, ie, the process involving the systematic extermination deportation of any person classified as Jewish by the Nazis regardless of the religion they profess. The term "final solution" was used by Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official in charge of the first instance of mass murder, which he called "resettlement".