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**How Hitler Rose to Power**

 * Hitler early life:** He was born on August 20, 1889 in a Austrian town of Braunau am Inn. In his family he idolized his mother. AS a teenager he left secondary school with out a graduation certificate in 1905. Due to the loss of his mother he moved to Vienna. While he was there he wanted to be an artist but wan't to successful. All of these events caused him to be depressed, and that started his hatred towards the Jewish race. In 1913 he moved to munich to join the Austrian Army, but he was rejected due to being unfit. When WWI broke out he enlisted in the 16th Bavarian reserve Infantry Regimen. LAter he was promoted to corporal, and was decorated 4 times, receiving the Iron Cross 1st class on August 4, 1918.


 * Treaty of Versailles and end of WWI:** The Treaty of Versailles had officially ended WWi which was also known as the Great War. This treaty punished Germany more that any other country. They were limited to a 100,000 man army, and only 4,000 could be officeres. Also they were only allowed to have 15,000 sailors, and weren't allowed to build anymore submarines. Some historians believe that the treaty was less concerned with world peace than it was with punishing Germany. Because of all this it was just another reason why people believe this was a direct cause to the start of WWII.


 * Rise of Hitler and NAZI:** Hitler turned the German Worker's party into the Nazionalsozialistische Deutsch Arbeiterpartei, commonly known as the NAZI. He became a street corner orator, he expressed all of his ideas this way. During November 8-9 1923 he led the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, it was a bold attempt to control the Bavarian Government. He was arrested for that. While in his 9 month jail time he wrote a book "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle). That also got him many supporters. Hitler ran for Germany's president in 1932, but he clearly lost to Hindenburg. The NAZI group had about 37% of the votes, at the time the largest group out there, so Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor.


 * Hitler Becomes Leader:** Like i said in the last paragraph Hitler was announced Chancellor by Poul Von Hindenberg. Now he is constantly working and building himself into a good dictator. On March 23, 1933, he put together the Enabling Act, which gave him 4 years of dictatorial powers. He built up his army which was a clear violation to the Treaty of Versailles. Also he replaced all of the BrownShirts with the SS. He got ride of all the Jewish people from government institutions. He killed Ernst Roehm and all the other NAZI's who could possible challenge his path to absolute domination.

The Gestapo where Hitler's version of cops. They can also be soldiers, detectives, or even fight in war. Adolf Eichmann was part of the NAZI. He was a banal functionary of mass murder. Josef Goebbels was a master propagandist. When hitler got out of jail he recruited him because of his propaganda talents. Blitzkrieg or "lightning war" was a tactic that Hitler used. It was when you would rapidly attack with massive numbers of mechanized infantry, tanks and air support. Propaganda is highly used in pretty much every war. It is when you alter behavior and, in turn, alter the strategic or tactical balance in favor of the propagandist.

Primary Source:

//"When Hitler organized his Berlin- Rome- Tokyo alliance, all these planes of conquest became a single plan. Under this, in addition to his own schemes of conquest,Japans role was obviously to cut off our supply of weapons of war to Britain, and Russia and China- weapons which increasingly were speeding the day of Hitler's doom."//

FDR is saying that Hitlers alliances were just to hurt America. And that since America sent weapons to britain, russia and china japan was the one cutting them off.

//"Hitler has often protested that his planes for conquest do not extend across the Atlantic ocean. But his submarines and raiders prove otherwise."//

What FDR is trying to say is even though hitler said he's not going to go across the Atlantic it seems like it. By where his submarines and raiders are they think otherwise.


 * Work Cited:**
 * || Axelrod, Alan, and Charles Phillips. "Hitler, Adolf." //Dictators and Tyrants: Absolute Rulers and Would-Be Rulers in World History.// New York: Facts On File, Inc., 1995.//American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?

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 * || Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Radio Address on the Battle of the Atlantic." Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. //American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?

ItemID=WE52&iPin=E09660&SingleRecord=True (accessed September 17, 2011). || ||


 * || Roosevelt, Franklin D. "State of the Union Address, 1942." American Presidency Project. //American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?

ItemID=WE52&iPin=E13873&SingleRecord=True (accessed September 17, 2011). || ||