Cherish Sills

Hitler- MASTER PACKET

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Assertion 1 Idea: The Rise of Hitler
ASS 1, Q1: What was the state of Germany prior to Adolf Hitler coming to power?
Box 1 EV1: APPROVED
By the early 1930s, Germany was in desperate shape. Its defeat in World War I and the
harsh conditions imposed by the United States, Britain, and France in the 1919 Treaty of
Versailles-including debilitating reparation payments to the victors--had left Germany
humiliated and impoverished, with ruinous inflation eating away at its economy. The
worldwide Depression that followed the 1929 U.S. stock market crash exacerbated the
situation as banks failed, Factories closed, and millions of people lost their jobs
Source #: 3
Citation: Robinson and Robinson
Box 2 EV2: APPROVED
The German economy was especially vulnerable since it was built upon foreign capital,
mostly loans from America and was very dependent on foreign trade. When those loans
suddenly came due and when the world market for German exports dried up, the well oiled
German industrial machine quickly ground to a halt. As production levels fell, German
workers were laid off. Along with this, banks failed throughout Germany. Saving accounts,
the result of years of hard work, were instantly wiped out. Inflation soon followed making it
hard for families to purchase expensive necessities with devalued money ---Gavin, #6
The worldwide economic depression had hit the the country especially hard, and millions of
people were out of work----Beorn, #2
There was inflation--you paid billion [of marks] for a loaf of bread. And for returning soldiers,

like Herbet Richter, it was all but heartbreaking to witness the the economic hardship on on
top of the suffering of the war.---Rees, 22, #11
PUT THE SOURCE AND CITATION BELOW EACH ONE
Source #: 6---2---11
Citation: Gavin---Beorn---Rees, 22
ASS 1, Q2: How did Hitler gain support of the people?
Box 3 EV1: APPROVEDHitler told the German people what they wanted to hear that
conditions in the country would improve, that their own lives would become the most powerful
nation on earth
Source #: 1
Citation: Eleanor H. Ayer, 11
Box 4 EV2: APPROVED Hitler's speeches were inspiring, he was a great public speaker
who could enthuse the masses and ignite a sense of belief. his policies made sense and were
aimed at the areas of politics that the German masses were resentful of i.e. the treaty of
Versailles and reparations. his party were highly organised, flexible in their views (in the eyes
of the electorate) and made promises that would benefit all sectors of the population
Source #: 8
Citation: Andrew Field
ASS 1, Q3: How did Hitler solidify power?
Box 5 EV1:MORE
Although the Nazis suffered a decline in votes during the November 1932 election,
Hindenburg agreed to make Hitler chancellor in January 1933, hoping that Hitler could be
brought to heel as a member of his cabinet
Source #: 13
Citation: Hitler becomes fuhrer
Box 6 EV2: APPROVED
With the death of President Hindenburg on August 2, 1934, Hitler united the chancellorship
and presidency under the new title of Fuhrer. As the economy improved, popular support for
Hitlers regime became strong, and a cult of Fuhrer worship was propagated by Hitlers
capable propagandists
Source #: 13
Citation: Hitler becomes fuhrer

Assertion 2 Idea: Hitlers Maintenance of Power

ASS 2, Q1: How did Hitler improve/take steps to improve the economy?
Box 7 EV1:APPROVED (WHEN YOURE QUOTING INSIDE OF A QUOTE, YOU USE ONE
Q MARKThe Hitler regimes economic policy, Galbraith goes on, involved large scale
borrowing for public expenditures, and at first this was principally for civilian work -- railroads,
canals and the Autobahnen [highway network]. The result was a far more effective attack on
unemployment than in any other industrial country. / 1 By late 1935, he also wrote,
unemployment was at an end in Germany. By 1936 high income was pulling up prices or
making it possible to raise them Germany, by the late thirties, had full employment at stable
prices. It was, in the industrial world, an absolutely unique achievement. / 2 Hitler also
anticipated modern economic policy, the economist noted, by recognizing that a rapid
approach to full employment was only possible if it was combined with wage and price
controls. That a nation oppressed by economic fears would respond to Hitler as Americans did
to F.D.R. is not surprising. / 3
Source #: 7
Citation: Weber FIX CITATION
Box 8 EV2: APPROVED
Once in power, Hitler oversaw one of the greatest expansions of industrial production and
civil improvement that Germany had ever seen. The German economy achieved near full
employment and greatly expanded its economic and industrial base. Hitler also oversaw one
of the largest infrastructure improvement campaigns in German history, with the construction
of dozens of dams, autobahns, railroads, and other civil improvements. Hitler's health
initiatives for ethnic Germans were successful and progressive"
Source #: 10
Citation: Economics and culture
ASS 2, Q2: How did Hitler use his military to maintain control/expand his reign?
Box 9 EV1: APPROVED "On Sept. 1, 1939, Hitler began World War IIwhich he hoped
would lead to his control of most of the Eurasian heartlandwith the lightning invasion of
Poland, which he immediately followed with the liquidation of Jews and the Polish
intelligentsia, the enslavement of the local "subhuman" population, and the beginnings of a
German colonization. Following the declaration of war by France and England, he temporarily
turned his military machine west, where the lightning, mobile attacks of the German forces
quickly triumphed. In April 1940 Denmark surrendered, and Norway was taken by an
amphibious operation. In May-June the rapidly advancing tank forces defeated France and
the Low Countries"
Source #: 9
Citation: Adolf Hitler

Box 10 EV2: APPROVED

Hitler had taken Austria without firing a shot. Czechoslovakia next door now trembled at the
thought that it was surrounded on three sides by the German Army. Hitler wasted no time in
pressing his advantage. He began to consider plans for the occupation of the Sudetenland,
the western portion of Czechoslovakia home to about three million ethnic Germans.
Source #: 14
Citation: Nazis Take Austria

Assertion 3: Hitlers Fall From Power

ASS 3, Q1: When did things begin to go terribly wrong for Hitler?
Box 11 EV1: APPROVED As 1942 began, the Axis powers had the upper hand in the war.
That changed by the fall of 1942, when the Germans were locked in a bloody fight against the
Soviets that threatened to destroy the German army. American forces had won a victory in the
Pacific and had landed in North Africa
APPROVED -EXPAND UPON DEFEAT IN RUSSIA IN BOX 12
Source #: 5
Citation: Scott Ingram, 97
Box 12 EV2: APPROVED
The winter of 1941-42 was one of the worst in recorded history. Daily temperatures fell to 40
degrees below zero. German soldiers had not been issued with warm winter clothing as Hitler
believed that the invasion would be over by the winter. Soldiers froze to death in their sleep,
diesel froze in fuel tanks and food was in very short supply. Russian soldiers had been issued
with winter clothing and did not suffer as badly as their German enemies. The defeat of an
entire German army at Stalingrad was a disaster for the Germans and some historians consider
this battle the turning point of World War Two because the German army could now only go in
one direction and that was back to Germany
Source #: 12
Citation: Chris Trueman, Russia
ASS 3, Q2: How did military losses in WW|| affect the stability of Adolf Hitlers rule?
Box 13 EV1:APPROVED With the waning fortunes of the German war effort, Hitler withdrew
almost entirely from the public; his orders became increasingly erratic and pedantic; and
recalling his earlier triumphs over the generals, he refused to listen to advice from his military
counselors. He dreamed of miracle bombs and suspected treason everywhere. Under the
slogan of "total victory or total ruin, " the entire German nation from young boys to old men,
often barely equipped or trained, was mobilized and sent to the front. After an unsuccessful
assassination attempt by a group of former leading politicians and military men on July 20,
1944, the regime of terror further tightened. In the last days of the Third Reich, with the Russian
troops in the suburbs of Berlin, Hitler entered into a last stage of desperation in his underground
bunker in Berlin. He ordered Germany destroyed since it was not worthy of him; he expelled his
trusted lieutenants Himmler and Gring from the party; and made a last, theatrical appeal to the
German nation
Source #: 9
Citation: Adolf Hitler
Box 14 EV2: APPROVED On April 30, 1945, as the Allied army was closing in on Berlin, in a
bunker far below the Reich chancellery, Hitler committed suicide

Source #: 4
Citation: Marylou Morano Kjelle, 11