Hitler

1
Hitlers Rise to Power

• Top 10 Events

2
1919

• Hitler joins the National Social German Workers
  Party
• Also known as the Nazi Party

3
1923

• Hitler imprisoned for trying to overthrow the
  German government
• While in prison, Hitler writes his autobiography
  Mein Kampf
• My Struggle

4
1930s

• The Great Depression hits Germany
• Hitler promises to rebuild Germanys economy

5
1933

• Hitler loses presidential election to Hindenburg
• Instead named Germanys Chancellor
• Head of German Government

6
1934

• Hitler becomes Germanys President after
  Hindenburg dies
• Hitler gives himself the title of Der Fuhrer
• the leader

7
1936

• German troops entered the Rhineland
• Great Britain and France do not respond even
  though this is a violation of the Versailles
  Treaty
• Germany signed alliance with Italy and later
  Japan
• Known as the AXIS POWERS

8
1938

• Hitler demands and receives Sudetenland
• 6 months later Hitler occupies all of
  Czechoslovakia

9
1939

• Stalin and Hitler sign the 10-year Non-Aggression
  Pact

10
1939

• One week after signing the Non-Aggression Pact,
  Germany invades Poland
• September 1st, 1939
• Overran Poland in less than one month
• September 3rd, 1939 Great Britain and France
  declare war on Germany

11
1939

• German laws imposed in Poland
• Hitlers Brownshirts wage a violent campaign to
  suppress anyone challenging Hitlers laws
• This marks the beginning of the Holocaust