The Rise of Nazi Germany, 1933-1939

 I.                   WWI and “Stab in the Back” Myth

A.   Versailles and the Weimar Republic
B.    War Reparations and Poverty, 1919-1924
C.   Economic Recovery, 1924-1929
D.   The Great Depression, 1929-early 1930s

II.                Germany Turns to the Nazis

A.   Adolf Hitler
B.    Beer Hall Putsch, 1923
C.   Mein Kampf

III.      Nazi’s Seize Control, 1933-1935

A.   Hitler Appointed Chancellor (Jan. 1933)
B.    Reichstag Fire (Feb. 1933)
C.   Hitler Seizes Total Authority (Mar. 1933 & 1934)
D.   Night of the Long Knives, 1934
E.    Nuremberg Race Laws, 1935

IV.            Nazi’s on the Offensive, 1936-1938

A.   Reoccupation of the Rhineland, 1936
B.    Anschluss, Munich and Czechoslovakia, 1938-1939
C.   Kristallnacht, 1938 (“Crystal Night”)
D.   Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, 1939
E.    German Invasion of Poland, September 1939

Terms:
·        von Hindenburg
·        SA (Sturmabteilung)
·        Ernst Röhm (SA)
·        SS (Schutzstaffel)
·        Lebensraum
·        Sudatenland
·        Neville Chamberlain