Activity: Those who didn’t turn in the assignment on the Nazi Program should do so immediately for full credit. It is worth 5 pts

Next, we look at the cycles of inflation in Germany in the early 1920s that helped lead to Hitler’s rise to power in Germany. Students do guided note-taking on the form linked HERE

Interwar Years

T/O (Topic/Objective): Hitler's rise to power

EQ (Essential Question): Why was Hitler successful in leading Germany into a authoritarian, fascist regime that carried out a policy of genocide?

Cycles of inflation in Germany post-WWI . . .

1) Germany has huge war-related expenses after WWI

2) Government spends more than it takes in

3) Germany prints more money

4) Value of money goes down

5) Prices go up

6) Government prints more money

7) Cycle continues

8) Economy is in danger of collapsing

German govt. was printing 400 quadrillion marks/day by 1923 - 400,000,000,000,000,000!!

Hitler's Rise to Power

WWI - 2 Iron Crosses for bravery

1919 - Joined Nazis in Munich, Germany

1923 - Failed attempt to seize power . . .

Nine months in prison - Wrote Mein Kampf . . .

. . . 'Master race' theory

. . . Jews, Gypsies (Roma), Slavs were inferior

. . . Versailles Treaty was an outrage

. . . Lebensram theory revived

1924 - Revived Nazi Party

1930 - Great Depression; Germany economy collapsed

Hitler's Rise to Power

1932 - Nazis became largest party in Germany

1933 - Hitler named chancellor

1933 - Start of the Nuremburg laws

1934 - SS arrests & kills many of Hitler's foes

1936 - Dramatic drop in unemployment followed infrastructure build-up

1938 - Kristallnacht

The Rise of Japanese Militarism

1922 - Agrees to leave China alone

1928 - Renounces war in Kellogg-Briand Treaty

1929 - Onset of Great Depression . . . Government is blamed

1930 - Militarists take control; want to expand to help economy

1931 - Invades Manchuria (NE China)

1933 - Withdraws from League of Nations

1937 - Invasion of greater China . . . 'Rape of Nanjing'