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hitler defeat in World War
hitler had left the nation economically depressed and politically unstable, -
Hitler gave speech after speech in which he stated that unemployment,
Germany would continue until there was a total revolution in German life. -
hitler takes over the nazi party
the nazi party is short for Nationalist Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party. -
Hitler and his followers staged the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich,
Hitler had hoped that the “putsch,” or coup d’etat, would spark a larger revolution against the national government. In the aftermath of the Beer Hall Putsch. -
Germany entered a period of severe economic depression and widespread unemployment.
The Nazis capitalized on the situation by criticizing the ruling government and began to win elections. -
Germany in Economic depression
n 1929, Germany entered a period of severe economic depression and widespread unemployment. -
The Nazis capitalized on the situation by criticizing the ruling government and began to win elections.
they captured 230 out of 608 seats in the “Reichstag,” or German parliament -
Under Nazi rule, all other political parties were banned.
Hitler was appointed German chancellor and his Nazi government soon came to control every aspect of German life -
Hitler is Chancellor
in January 1933, Hitler was appointed German chancellor and his Nazi government soon came to control every aspect of German life.Under Nazi rule, all other political parties were banned. In 1933, the Nazis opened their first concentration camp, in Dachau, Germany, to house political prisoners. -
hitler builds up the army
In 1935, he openly held a huge rearmament rally. The other nations let him get away with it – Britain even made a naval agreement with Germany, accepting that Germany had a right to have a navy of 35% of the British navy (i.e. this broke the Treaty, which said that Germany could only have 6 battleships). -
Hitler Re Militarizing the RhineLand
In 1936, Hitler moved his troops into the zone, claiming that the recent treaty between France and Russia threatened Germany’s safety. His commanders had orders to retreat if the French army tried to stop them, but this time it was France who did nothing. The League of Nations, busy with the Abyssinian crisis, also did nothing. -
hitler gains the studentland
By the end of 1938, Hitler was doing the same thing in the Sudentenland, which the Treaty of Versailles had given to Czechoslovakia. Sudeten Nazis, led by Henlein, caused trouble, claiming that they were being oppressed by the Czechs.Hitler demanded union, and threatened war.This time, although the Czech leader Beneš was prepared to fight, it was Britain and France who, at Munich, broke the Treaty of Versailles and gave the Sudetenland to Germany. Which just left Danzig, and the Polish corridor -
Hitler Annexing Austria
The Treaty forbade Anschluss between Germany and Austria. An attempted Nazi putsch in Austria failed in 1934, but in 1938 Hitler tried again. Austrian Nazis organised riots, while Hitler pressurized the Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg to declare Anschluss. Schuschnigg asked both France and Britain for help, but was refused, so he suggested instead a plebiscite. To prevent the possibility of a ‘no’ result, Hitler invaded. -
Japanese Invasion of China (Rape of Nanking)
The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The massacre occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000. -
hitler breaks treatly
By 1939, Germany had 95 warships, 8,250 airplanes and an army of nearly 1m. men (many more than the 0 planes and 100,000 men stated in the Treaty of Versailles). Hitler even war-tested his armed forces in the Spanish Civil War -
The Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom from the Luftwaffe attacks from the end of June 1940 -
Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is a method of warfare whereby an attacking force, spearheaded by a dense concentration of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry formations with close air support, breaks through the opponent's line of defense by short, fast, powerful attacks and then dislocates the defenders, using speed and surprise to encircle them. Through the employment of combined arms in manoeuvre warfare, blitzkrieg attempts to unbalance the enemy by making it difficult for it to respond. -
invasion of Normandy
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and contributed to the Allied victory on the Western Front.
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