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The German Workers' Party is also called DAP, which will later turn into the Nazi Party.
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Hitler writes that DAP 25 point programme, which clearly outlines that party's agenda. The party then changes it's name National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis),
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Hitler becomes the undisputed leader of the Nazi Party
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The Nazi party is outlawed for this and Hitler is sent to jail.
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Hitler is sentenced to 5 years but he was released after 8 months. While in prison he wrote "Mein Kampf" which translates to "My Struggle."
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After President Friedrich Ebert dies, Hitler is able to put power back into the Nazi Party
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After Hitler appoints Joesf Goebbles as the Gauleiter of Berlin, the Nazi Party participates in the election in Reichstag, where they win only 2.3% of the national votes.
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The crash of the New York Stock Market sparks a global depression which leads to more German unemployment which was already at increased levels.
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The Weimar Government begins to collapse over the disagreements about how Germany should respond to the Great Depression, the Nazi Party then receives 18.3% of the national votes
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By 1932 the Nazis have 37.4% of the national vote for the Reichstag Elections.
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Hitler is appointed chancellor by President Hindenburg on January 30th, by February 27th the Nazis are able to take control of regional governments after the Reichstag is burned in a "mysterious" fire. In November, Germany withdrawals from the League of Nations.
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Between the months of June and July, Germany was in a state of crisis, there were many shootings and arrests occurring. In August, President Hindenburg dies and Hitler becomes the President of Germany.
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Hitler denounces the Treaty of Versailles and announces the creation of the German Air Force, the military force in Germany grew. England and France failed to respond, and later on the Nuremburg Laws were creating, stripping all rights of German Jews.
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The Nazis announced their Four Year economic plan, which was to prepare the country for self-sufficiency. Hitler grows the military power in the Rhineland, again violating the Treaty of Versailles.
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In the month of November an attack on German Jews and their property throughout Germany, referred to as "Kristallnacht", or "the Night of the Broken Glass". A total of 91 Jews are killed, hundreds torched, and around 30,000 Jewish men are arrested.
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Hitler annexes the rest of the Czech Republic and demands the Poland gives up some of the land they were given from the Treaty of Versailles. Poland refuses, Germany signs a secret treaty with the Soviet Union (Russia) in August and on September 1, Germany invades Poland, sparking the beginning of the Second World War.
