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January 1919-NSDAP
The National Socialist German Workers' Party, also known as the Nazis emerge as a minor political party in January 1919. -
1920-The Start
It started with a fighting between multiple political parties to get elected. -
1921-Hitler coming into power
Hitler became the absolute leader (fuhrer) of the party and order an enforcement group known as Sturmabeilung later known as the Brownshirts to deal with enemies. -
1924-Hitler's Release
Hitler was release from imprisonment and pledge to make the NSDAP legitimate political party and to use and destroy democracy. -
1928-Growing Fandom
In 1928 the NSDAP became popular with farmers, small business owners, and other middle class who felt ignored. Even though popular, they didn't gain representation because their idea wasn't appealing when economy was booming. -
1929-Great Depression
The Great Depression left Germany to vote for more radical parties such as Hitler's party the NSDAP. -
1932-Growing Power
The Nazis party won 230 seats in the Reichstag, which is the highest number any political party ever reach in the Reichstag during the Weimar period. -
1933-Prison camps for political oppoents
Early 1933, Hitler authorized the construction of the concentration camp. The camps were thought to be holding facilities for political prisoners who disagree with the Nazis ideas and policies. -
1933-Hitler's Chancellor Deal
President Paul von Hindenburg offered Adolf Hitler the chancellorship and to form a government. -
1933-Reichstag Fire
The fire of the Reichstag help boost Hitlers power. The Nazis party declared a state in emergency in which the President of Germany invoke the Article 48 where the president rule by decree. Article 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 123, and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich. This meant that it restrict personal freedom, the freedom of opinion, including the freedom of press and etc. Adolf used this as an advantage to remove political enemies by limiting the press and banning meetings. -
March 23, 1933-Enabling Act
It was an act that allowed the chancellor and his minster to rule by decree, bypass the constitution, initiate taxes and spending and determine foreign policy without the approval from the Reichstag and legislation. The vote for the act was rigged by the Nazis by arresting other political party members. -
July 14, 1933
Nazis declared that the NDSAP is the only political party in Germany and anyone who makes another political party was punished by imprisonment. -
June 30, 1934-German Army Support
Hitler pulled some strings and killed several leaders of the SA to gain the support of the German Army. -
August 2, 1934-Death of a President and the Birth of a Fuhrer
The President of Germany, Paul von Hindenburg, died and Adolf Hitler became the leader. The term president would be changed to fuhrer and the fuhrer would be the head of state, government, and armed forces. -
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1935-1939~Rearmament
Hitler reintroduced the draft for the army in 1935. In the next year, Hitler introduced his four year plan where he plans on building a nation military for war. By 1939, there were 900,000 soldiers, 8,000 aircraft, and 95 warships. -
March 1936-Rhineland
In March, Adolf Hitler station military around the Rhine river to show defiance where in the Versailles treaty, Rhineland was a buffer zone where Germany couldn't have any military in that region. -
November 1937-Hitlers New Foreign Policy
In November, Hitler is concern about Germany economy and need of food and raw material. His idea to solve this problem was to use military expansion to Eastern Europe. -
March 1938-Anschluss
There was another Nazis group in Austria where in March 1938, Hitler told the Austrian chancellor to relinquish his power or face an invasion from Germany. The Austrian chancellor gain no supports so he resigned and in the next day Hitler joined Austria and Germany under one government. -
September 1938-Czechoslovakia and the Munich Agreement
Hitler stated that Germans were being prosecuted in Sudetenland by Czechs. The British prime minister intervened meeting the fuhrer three times in September. On the 15th, the British Prime Minister agreed to Hitlers demands. Then on the next meeting, Hitler demanded that German military be granted access to the Sudeten region. On the 29th, it was agreed upon that Nazis take Sudetenland but no further.
