Hitler's Rise to Power

Hitler’s Rise to Power
By: Maxim

Adolf Hitler rise to power had a lot to do with the events leading up to the events of World War II. He became dictator, he made Germany angry enough to attack, and most of all, and he provoked the other countries into starting a war that would last for 6 years.
Because Germany started World War II, they were fined a heavy tax. Germany’s army size was also limited so that nothing like that could ever happen again. Many people had gotten laid off because of the recession. Because many people lost their jobs, inflammation flared sky high and Germany’s economy started collapsing. Many people in Germany were angry at the amount of taxes and the size of their army. In 1923 Adolf Hitler came along and gained support of many powerful people. He came together with these people and formed a plan, a plan to conquer Europe.
In the year 1924, Hitler started a campaign to become the country’s chancellor in the hopes that he could use his power to become the dictator. He gained support by promoting Pan-Germanism, anti-Semitism, and anti-communism. He used charismatic oratory and propaganda to gain even more supporters. He promised that under his reign of him Germany would become even more powerful then they ever had been. He was elected chancellor in 1933 and changed from the current form of government (the Weimar Republic) to a new form of government (Third Reich), where he would be the dictator.
In 1933, he became dictator and he promised to establish a New Order of Nazi German hegemony. He also promised to seize more land for Germany and help make a perfect master race of people with blond hair and blue eyes.
His master race plan was based off of the Nordic people. He had a hierarchy in which the pure German “Aryans” were at the top. He considered Jewish and Slavs (Russians and Serbs) “underlings” people that were dangerous to society and did not deserve to live.
In 1938, a year before the attack of Poland, Hitler ended the alliance with China to make an alliance with the more powerful Japan. Later that year Hitler declared unification of Austria with Nazi Germany. These 2 countries would become his main allies in World War II. Also, in 1938, Hitler demanded independence from Czechoslovakia and demanded that Czechoslovakia let Germany freely express their Nazi idealism, when Czechoslovakia refused, Hitler attacked and conquered Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia later ceased to exist in WW II, but reappeared after the end of World War II when Germany was finally brought to justice and had to give up all the land it conquered.
Hitler originally had doubts to invade Poland because he feared that this would start a premature war with Britain and France. However, his Prime Minister Georges Bonnet assured him that Britain and France would not honor their commitment to protect and guard Poland. His prime minister also showed him how Britain and France considered Germany a very powerful country that they were afraid to attack. He also showed how Britain and France said “Even in victory, the British and French economy would collapse, and leave them in poverty and chaos.”
In 1938 Hitler attacked Czechoslovakia, but he only got a part of it, the other parts went to Bohemia and Moravia. Hitler offered Poland the chance to help Germany in the fight in World War II. When Poland refused, Germany invaded. On September 1st 1939, Hitler launched a mass attack on Poland. He conquered the country in just 35 days. Hitler’s rise would spark the biggest war in history, from which many people would never be the same.