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Hitler rejected from Vienna Academy of Fine Arts
Hitler was twice rejected from the Academy of Fine Arts, in 1907 and 1908. It was here in Vienna that he purportedly began to become increasingly antisemitic. -
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Weimar Republic
Germany was known as the Weimar Republic after the Treaty of Versailles after the First World War. -
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Economic Crisis
Germany was in a state of economic crisis, with hyperinflation crippling the economy. -
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Golden Twenties
The Golden Twenties were a period of prosperity following recovery from prior hyperinflation and immediately before the Wall Street Crash of 1929. -
Death of Gustav Stresemann
Gustav Stresemann was the former Chancellor of Germany. Perhaps his most famous action was dragging the struggling state out of crippling hyperinflation. -
Wall Street Crash
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 plunged Germany, and indeed the greater Western world, into the economic distress of the Great Depression. -
Hitler Appointed Chancellor
In his first position of real political power, President HIndenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. -
The Enabling Act
The passing of the Enabling Act granted Hitler unprecedented powers and arguably was the rise of a dictatorship. -
Reichstag Fire
The house of the German parliament, the Reichstag, was set ablaze in an arson attach attributed to a Dutch communist. This allowed Hitler the political leverage needed to enact the Enabling Act. -
Re-Occupation of the Rhineland
In an open violation of the Treaty of Versailles, German troops re-entered the Rhineland for the first time since WW1. -
Night of the Long Knives
Hitler ordered a widespread purge of perceived dangers, such as Ernst Röhm and other high-ranking SA officers. -
Death of Ernst Röhm
Ernst Röhm was the leader of the Nazis' militia, the SA, and was one of the party's first members. Later in life he was regarded by Hitler to be a threat and as such was executed. -
Führer
Hitler declared himself Führer of Germany, a word meaning only 'Leader'. -
Death of Paul von HIndenburg
Paul von Hindenburg was the president of Germany from 1925 to 1934, at the height of Hitler's rise to power. He agreed to appoint HItler as his chancellor. When he died, Hitler took control of the country. -
Anschluss
In the first of Hitler's territorial acquisitions, Austria was annexed by Germany. -
Occupation of the Sudetenland
Germany forcibly occupied the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia, to reunify the majority German-speaking population. -
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Also known as the Nazi-Soviet pact, this was a nonagression agreement that split Poland and eastern Europe between Russia and Germany, while also guaranteeing peace between the two nations.