Treaty of Versailles
United States, Britain, France, and Italy
Army limited to 100,000 men
Navy almost eliminated
War planes, submarines, tanks, heavy artillery, poison gas forbidden
Polish corridor
Alsace and Lorraine
$33 billion
Civil liberties
Vote to women
Article 48
Hyperinflation
Treaty of Versailles
b. Austria
Vienna, 1908
Corporal in German army, WW I
*Nazis (National Socialist German Workers' Party), 1923
Skilled speaker
Reichstag elections
1928 Nazis:12 seats, Communists: 54 seats
1930 Nazis: 107 seats, Communists: 77 seats
1932 Nazis: 196 seats (33.1% of vote)
Mar. 1933 Nazis+Nationalists (52% of vote)
* Stormtroopers (SA)
Food, uniforms, wages
1930 100,000 members
1933 about 1 million members
* Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934)
reelected with 63% of vote
Hitler 37% of vote
Hitler appointed chancellor, January 30, 1933
Fire at Reichstag, Feb. 1933
Emergency Decree (Article 48)
Communists arrested, Feb. 1933
Enabling Act, March 23, 1933
Only Socialists (15%) opposed
Monopolized power, May-July 1933
Central govt. took over taxes and education
Labor unions and political parties banned
President Hindenburg dies, August 2, 1934
Army oath to Hitler
* Third Reich (empire) declared
Führer (leader)
1. What explains Hitler's popularity?
2. How did Hitler use propaganda to solidify his power? Compare with Roosevelt.
3. Compare and contrast the reasons why Hitler and Roosevelt were popular and successful leaders of their countries in the 1930s.
1. Why did the Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles create resentment in Germany?
2. How did Hitler gain control of the German government?
3. How did the Nazis use propaganda to appeal to people? Compare and contrast this with Roosevelt's fireside chats.
4. Compare and contrast the reasons why Hitler and Roosevelt were popular and successful leaders of their countries in the 1930s.
1. What was the Paris Peace Conference? How did it punish Germany?
2. Why were fascists in Italy and National Socialists (Nazis) in Germany able to gain control of government in the late1920s and early 1930s?
1. Why does the German delegation feel that their country has been treated unfairly at the Paris Peace Conference? Do you think that their complaints are justified or not?
Why did Hitler believe that Jews were inferior to Aryans?
Why do you think that Hitler wanted Germans to hate the Jews?
What kind of government did
Hitler envision for Germany? Why?
What was Hitler's vision for German
foreign policy? Why?