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 * What Started It All**

Adlof Hitler was born April 20, 1889 in Austria. Hitler left school without graduating to pursue his career in art and drawing. After not getting accepted in to the Academy of Fine Arts he worked as a artist for 6 years painting post cards and advertisements. In 1913, Hitler moved from Austria to Munch to avoid getting drafted into the military. He got called to go anyway but failed the examination. A year later Hitler enlisted into the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry. Being in the military could have influenced him to try to take over the world and be very violent. His father was also a very burtal man, growing up in that type of household could have had an impact on him.

The Treaty of Versailles, which was a peace settlement, ended World War I in 1919. Because of the Treaty, Germany was blamed for the war and they were restricted to only 100,000 men in their army. Since Germany had started the war, they were to make reparations to the Allied countries because of the damage due to the war. Germany also lost some of it's land they aquired during the war such as Luxembourg and Belgium. Historians think that WWI was a major cause of WWII because Germany came out of WWI in debt and their government almost crumbling. Hitler brought Germany back on their feet only to bring them right back to where they started. He tried to take over the World and show the World that Germany is still a strong and superior country but in doing so he started major controversy.

Hitler's rise to power happened in 1920, when he worked for the army for the German Workers party. Later in the year he found himself more useful in the propaganda section for the German Worker's party and left the army's political office agency. About four months later Hitler changed the German Workers Party to the Nazionalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. With the help of Ernst Roehm, Hitler became president of the NSDAP. Once in power, Hitler began various things such as yell at non- German supporters on street corners and try to take over the Bavarian Government. He was soon arrested and sentenced to 5 years in prison but was released after 9 months. Once out of prison he published his autobiography called Mein Kampf, which means my struggle.

Hitler ran for President of Germany Republic in 1932 but he lost the election to Paul von Hindenberg who later appointed Hitler as Chancellor due to the Nazi party having 37 percent of the votes. Once appointed, he worked very hard to make his way up the Governmental ladder. Around 1933 he got an Enabling Act to pass which gave him certain powers that a dictator would have for Four years. In 1934 when Hindenberg passed away Hitler took office and began his plan for World Domination.

In order for Hitler to get the rest of Germany to follow his lead and be anti- semitism, Hitler held many rallies where large numbers of people and Nazi officals came out to listen to Hitler speak about how the Jews were the blame for Germanys previous war debt and economic crisis. Many young children and teens attends these rallies and Hitler soon noticed that. He later established a group called Nazi Youth. The children and teens in this group marched in parades in Gremany. Hitler wanted to instal anti-Semitism into their lives at an early age so that when he was gone Germany could continue his beliefs. Anti-Semitism means to have hatred or be prejudice to Jews.During World War II, because of anti-Semitism, many Jews lost their jobs and Jewish store owners had to give them away to Germans. Jewish places of worship were also a main target. Many synagogues were burnt down and Jewish bibles were destroyed on November 9-10 in 1938 known as Kristallnacht or " Night of broken glass". When Germany invaded Poland in 1939 they were testing new military techniques such as Blitzkrieg, also know as the lightning war. The Germans came through Poland using tanks and airplanes to make an surprise attack on the area. As Hitler was putting his office and party together he hired Josef Goebbels to be in charge of Germanys propaganda throughout the war.

The first primary document I used is the Treaty of Versailles. In this document, it talks about the fourteen points which Germany had to follow once the Treaty was signed after the war. My second Primary source was the League of Nations Covenant which was made after World War I in 1919 and was presented at a Paris Peace Conference. During WWII Germany as well as Japan pulled out of the League of Nations.

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League of Nations. "League of Nations Covenant." //American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?

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