SS.912.HE.1.4

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Explain how the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and gained and maintained power in Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945 under the leadership of Adolf Hitler.

Clarifications

Clarification 1: Students will compare Germany’s political parties and their system of proportional representation in national elections from 1920 to 1932.

Clarification 2: Students will explain how the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Schutzstaffel (SS), the Wehrmacht, the Gestapo and Hitler’s inner circle helped him gain and maintain power after 1933.

Clarification 3: Students will explain how the following contributed to Hitler’s rise to power: Adolf Hitler’s Munich Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler’s arrest and trial, Mein Kampf, the Reichstag fire, the Enabling Act, the Concordat of 1933, the Night of the Long Knives (the Rohm Purge), Hindenburg’s death and Hitler as Fuhrer.

General Information
Subject Area: Social Studies
Grade: 912
Strand: Holocaust Education
Standard: Analyze the origins of antisemitism and its use by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi) regime.
Date Adopted or Revised: 05/24
Status: State Board Approved

Related Courses

This benchmark is part of these courses.
2109430: Holocaust Education (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
2100405: Holocaust Education Honors (Specifically in versions: 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
2109435: Holocaust Education (Specifically in versions: 2023 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
2109440: Holocaust Education Honors (Specifically in versions: 2023 - 2024, 2024 and beyond (current))
7921032: Access Holocaust Education (Specifically in versions: 2023 and beyond (current))

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SS.912.HE.1.AP.4: Explain how the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and gained and maintained power in Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945 under the leadership of Adolf Hitler.

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