The Dissolution of Old Empires and the Creation of New Ones

I. Announcements and Review

A. Announcement

1. Readings for 11/22 available on line (via website or Carmen)

B. Review

C. Questions

1. How Hitler come to power? Were there particular movements, ideologies, or events that were necessary to the rise to power of the Nazis?

2. Was the Nazi rise to power a revolution?

3. How did the Nazis attempt to keep power during the 1930s? What characterized the early years of their reign?

II. Nazi Rise to Power

A. German discontent

B. Political Weaknesses

C. Economic Weaknesses

D. Explosion of extreme violence on right and left

E. challenge of the Beer Hall Putsch 1923

F. Nazi ideology

G. Hitler’s Personality

H. Specific Events

III. Nazi Consolidation of Power

IV. Decade Leading Up to War

V. Questions

A. why do totalitarian regimes become popular during the interwar period?

B. How does Hitler come to power? Were there particular movements, ideologies, or events that were necessary to the rise to power of the Nazis?

C. what are the similarities and differences between Stalinism and Nazism

D. What does Hitler call for in his 1941 speech? Why was this speech significant?

TERMS

Totalitarianism

Fascism

Nazism

Stab in the Back Myth

SA

Beer Hall Putsch

Pseudo-loyalty

Antisemitism

NSDAP

Young Plan

Law Against the Enslavement of the German People

Great Coalition

Hindenburg

Reichstag

Enabling Law

Dachau

Concordat with the Catholic Church (july 1933)

Night of the Long Knives

Führer

SS

degenerate art

übermeschen; untermenschen

appeasement

German-Polish Non Aggression Treaty

Danzig

Anschluß

Munich Agreement

Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty

Non Aggression Pact (Germany and USSR)