Hitler

Hitler's Rise to Power

By Josie Brown

  • German navy mutinies and rebellion spreads throughout the country

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    Hitler's Rise to Power

  • Germany are forced to drop out of World War One and sign the Armistice

  • The German Workers' Party is formed by Anton Drexler

  • A new government is agreed in Weimar, and Fredrich Ebert is elected as President

  • Mussolini forms the fascists in Italy, which is influential for Hitler later on

  • Germany sign the Treaty of Verailles, sparking anger in the public that will last for years

  • Official democratic Weimar Republic replaces socialist interim German government

  • Hitler joins the German Workers' Party after being sent to spy on them by the military

  • The German Workers' Party declare the 25-point programme and are renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis)

  • Hitler becomes chairman of the NSDAP

  • Hitler stages the Beer Hall Putsch

  • The Nazis march on Munich but are stopped. Hitler flees, but is arrested two days later

  • Hitler is pardoned from his 5 year jail sentence, having started Mein Kampf

  • Hitler regains control of the NSDAP

  • Hindenburg is elected President of Germany

  • Hitler publishes Mein Kampf

  • Hitler forms a personal bodyguard known as the SS

  • The ban on Hitler making public speeches is lifted

  • Reichstag shows only 2.6% of votes to NSDAP

  • Wall Street Stock Exchange crashes, bringing Germany down with it

  • Heinrich Brunig takes charge of Germany

  • Brunig begins using Article 48 to pass laws without consent of the Reichstag

  • The NSDAP become the second most popular party as the German party are desperate for solutions to unemployment

  • Hitler begins to gain support from industrialists

  • Hitler comes second in the Presidential election

  • Brunig is forced to resign and Hindenburg is talked into making Franz von Papen Chancellor

  • The NSDAP become the largest party in the Reichstag

  • Hitler is offered vice-chancellor but he refuses, wanting only to be Chancellor

  • Papen is forced out and Hindenburg appoints Schleicher as Chancellor

  • Papen persuades Hindenburg they can control Hitler, so he is appointed Chancellor with Papen as vice-chancellor

  • Hitler bans communists, and the NSDAP poll 43.9%

  • Hitler has the Enabling Act passed, which makes him dictator for four years

  • The NSDAP is the only party left by law

  • Night of the Long Knives, dozens are killed and Hitler shatters the power of the SA, who had been challenging his goals

  • Papen resigns

  • Hindenburg dies. Hitler merges Chancellor and President and becomes Fuhrer.