[Nazi Germany]

Before class 
  
      * Read Palmer, 790-800, and review 748-751 
  
      * Key terms
  
	Adolf Hitler 
	Nazi 
	Beer Hall Putsch 
	Third Reich 
	Fuhrer
	Gestapo 
  
      * General questions

1. Explain the problems with which the Weimar Republic had to contend in its early years. 

2. "Without the Great Depression, Adolf Hitler might have faded out of history."  Comment.

3. Explain the most important political, economic, and social changes introduced in 
Germany under the Third Reich.  Was the Nazi revolution truly a revolution?
 
      * key question

  
In what sense was the twentieth-century totalitarian state an outgrowth of the past?  How did
it differ from political phenomena of the past?

[Nazi Germany]

In class 
  
      * Outline 

	1. Hitler and rise of Nazism
  
	2. impact of depression 
		 
	3. Nazi state 
 
      * Key terms
  
	Adolf Hitler 
	Nazi party 
	S.A. 
	S.S. 
	Beer Hall Putsch 
	Mein Kampf
	Enabling Act 
	Night of the Long Knives 
	Nurenberg Laws 
	Gleichschaltung
  
      * Key concepts:	totalitarianism; dictatorship

      * Key questions:	Why Hitler?
                        Was inter-war totalitarianism unique or universal?