2. Case Study of Nazi Germany

Hitler’s Germany Important Dates ☆ ★ 1914: Start of WWI ★ 1917: October Revolution/Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ★ 1918: End of WWI; Declaration of Weimar Republic ★ 1919: Treaty of Versailles; Formation of LON ★ 1920: Kapp Putsch ★ 1923: Hitler’s failed Munich Putsch; The Ruhr Crisis ★ 1924: Dawes Plan ★ 1925: Locarno Treaties ★ 1929: Young Plan; The Great Depression ★ 1932: July elections; Hitler’s Appeal to the Nation ★ 1933: Hitler becomes Chancellor; Reichstag Fire & Emergency Power; March elections & Enabling Act ★ 1934: Night of the long Knives; death of President Hindenburg; Hitler became Führer Important People ☆ Chaotic White Male Name Adolf Hitler Paul von Hindenburg Ernest Rohm Role Führer of 󰎲 Former President of 󰎲 Leader of SA Chaotic White Male Name Heinrich Himmler Herman Goering Joseph Goebbels Role Head of SS Minister of Interior Minister of Propaganda Key : Important, D efine , Ex ample , A nswer/CC , Date , Person, term , ↑ increased, ✿ resources

Nazi Ideology Political Economic Rejection of Internationalism ● national interests > diplomacy & cooperation ● rejected outward-looking international perspective of LON and countries that led LON ( 󰏅 & 󰏃 ) ● goal: abolish TOV & all terms, including LON Führer Principle ● replaced democracy with Führer as supreme authority ● Hitler as single source of power; the strong leader Aggressive Foreign Policy ● pulled out as many international agreements & treaties as possible ● only signed treaties with nations they needed to further Nazi interests ○ to protect national interests & strategically set themselves up to win the war that Hitler was planning ➢ Rome-Berlin Axis pact with Italy ( 1936 ) ➢ Nazi-Soviet Pact with USSR ( 1939 ) Autarky ● belief that the Nazi nation should be entirely economically self sufficient ● goal: strived to restore economy to the point where they do not need to depend on other countries to support the economy Military Social Lebensraum ● living space: 󰎲 needed to expand to exercise its superiority (expansionist ideology) Annexation ● take over/annex other countries and incorporate territory into their nation ● Anschluss ( 1938 ) ● used Social Darwinism theory to argue that the Aryan race was the most advanced and thus the superior race ● Jewish race seen as inferior race ● theory was used to justify Nazi racial policies ● ghettoisation, clearing & extermination to remove inferior minority groups from population (ethnic cleansing) ● unite all racially pure 󰎲 s to return to the motherland and make 󰎲 great again Rise of Hitler CC ☆ Hitler r