HITLERS ACTIONS

• Rise to Power

  Hitler joined Nazi Party in the 1920s; exploited Weimar Republic's weaknesses; became Chancellor in 1933
• Consolidation of Power

  Enacted the Enabling Act (1933); allowed laws to be passed without the Reichstag approval
• Suppression of Opposition

  Hitler eliminated political opponents; banned other political parties; used Gestapo to arrest those who challenged his views
• Propaganda and Censorship

  Nazis controlled media; used propaganda to glorify Nazi ideology; led by Joseph Goebbels
• Racial Policies

  Nazis implemented Nuremberg Laws (1935); stripped Jews of rights and citizenship; instituted extreme antisemitism
• Militarization

  Hitler exploited the Treaty of Versailles; remilitarization of the Rhineland (1936), Anschluss, 1938
• World War 2

  • Hitler started the war by invading Poland which marked the start of the war
• The Holocaust

  • Hitler exterminated millions of Jews and those who did not fit into the Aryan race