Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler had several great impacts on World History as a whole. Such as he persecuted the Jews, broke the Treaty of Versailles and the Munich Conference which caused the beginning of WWII. This created many changes in America as a whole.
Nazi propaganda loudly proclaimed that Germans were a superior race destined to rule the world. At the same time, they preached that Jews, Poles, Americans, and other groups were inferior races. Hitler and the Nazi’s blamed the Jews for most of Germany’s problems since World War I. He used the Jews as convenient scapegoats for Germany’s troubles causing Nazi violence to steadily mount. Nazi mobs carried out a spontaneous demonstration of anger against Jews. They were beaten and killed in the streets, forced to wear the Star of David, and sent to concentration camps. These camps used poisonous gases to kill Jews at Auschwitz, a German concentration camp, Nazi officials slaughtered up to 30,000 people a day. This horrible destruction of human life is now known as the Holocaust. The Holocaust demonstrated that evil orders must never be obeyed and that the values of tolerance and respect for others must be preserved.
Hitler wrote in his book, Mein Kampf, that since the Germans were a master race, the Treaty of Versailles was an intolerable outrage against Germany. The treaty of Versailles had forbidden Germany placing troops in a 30-mile-wide zone on either side of the Rhine River. Known as the Rhineland, this territory formed a buffer between Germany and France. Hitler boldly ordered 35,000 German troops to march into the Rhineland and occupy it, deliberately disobeying the treaty. Hitler’s unexpected action stunned the British and French. Germany reoccupied the Rhineland and the democracies failed to act.
At the Munich Conference, Hitler solemnly promised that the Sudetenland was his last territorial claim. Chamberlain believed that he could preserve the peace by giving in to Hitler’s demand. He predicted that it would be...
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