4. National Socialist German Workers’ Party (1920 - 45)
German Workers Party (1919 - 1920)
Shortened to NAZI party from the German word
Nationalsozialist
Far right Racism
Anti-communist
Hitler elected chancellor in 1933 by president
PaulVon Hindenburg
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5. What does this mean?
When Hitler was appointed Chancellor, Hindenburg signed
the ‘enabling act’ which
basically allowed Hitler to have dictorial power without
legal objection
At this point, Hitler started the process of re-grouping and
re-building his nation by breaking rules of the treaty of
Versailles
Such as....
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6. Germany’s new ‘Fuehrer’ - Leader
broke the rules of the treaty ofVersailles by:
*Creating an Airforce
*Reintroducing conscription
*Sending troops into the Rhineland, Austria and the
Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)
*Making a pact with Italy to create the Berlin-Rome
Axis (the new power in Europe)
Why didn’t the other nations intervene during
these years (1933 - 39)?
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7. *Because many thought the terms of the
treaty were unreasonable
and
*Because the other nations were feeling threatened
by Communism (Russian Communism) and
thought that the support of Germany to fight Communism
could be needed.
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8. The Start of the War.....
World War two started when....
Germany invaded.......
on the 1st of September 1939
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9. 3rd September 1939.....
Neville Chamberlain announced that
...due to hitler refusing to withdraw his
forces from Poland....
....was now at war with Germany.
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