Hitler's rise
Dictator gaining power
Hitler's rise refers to Adolf Hitler's ascent to power in Germany, culminating in his appointment as Chancellor in 1933.
The phrase typically encompasses the period from the early 1920s through the Nazi consolidation of power, including the failed Beer Hall Putsch, the growth of the Nazi Party during the Weimar Republic's instability, and the political maneuvering that brought him to office: Scholars continue to debate what factors enabled Hitler's rise.
- GleichschaltungCompulsory political coordination
- Third ReichHitler's totalitarian German state
- NazismGerman fascist totalitarianism
- Weimar RepublicGermany's 1919-1933 parliamentary government
- Great Depression1930s global economic crisis
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- German HistoryNazi, Prussia, Saxony, Reichstag, Napoleonic Wars
- WWII GermanyNazi Germany, Nazi Party, Nazi regime, Third Reich, Wehrmacht
Hitler's risemilitary coup
Armed seizure of government
palace coup · Bolshevik Revolution · armed insurrection · French Revolution
Hitler's riseVelvet Revolution
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civil rights movement · Allied victory · liberation movements · democratic revolutions · fall of the Berlin Wall