Author: HP

Hitler’s Road to Becoming Chancellor - 1932-33

Task: Using the information provided, make notes next to the different ‘road signs’ to show how each stage contributed to Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany.

Mar - April 1932

May 1932

July 1932

Nov - Dec 1932

January 1933

Political ‘scheming’ was one of the main reasons for Hitler’s rise to power. Write a conclusion agreeing with this statement, supported by evidence. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What Was the Spark that started World War One?

28 June 1914

23 July 1914

5 July 1914
Austria-Hungary asks for support from Germany. Germany offers to support Austria if it attacks Serbia. This is because Germany was Austria’s ally and their agreement to help might stop other countries intervening.

28 July 1914

31 July 1914

29 July 1914

1 August 1914

2 August 1914

3 August 1914

4 August 1914

WW1

On 6th August, ______________________ declared war on Russia to complete the picture.
On 7th August, Britain landed 120,000 troops in France to begin fighting action against Germany.

Info on Use:
These are very useful for timeline type tasks and give a bit more of a twist on the usual, boring, line across the page.
EXAMPLE 1
This example is from the GCSE Germany course. Hitler is in a car on his way to victory and power. The ‘road to…’ in this case is his road to be coming chancellor. We see the physical road and the dates are in the road signs - students annotate around the road signs about what happened. The final box is an extension to explain the most important step on the way.
Edit the road signs to the name of events, and use this for any topic that has key events in a persons progression, i.e. a King claiming power, a road to war etc.
EXAMPLE 2
This is a road to war but in this I’ve used bits of rope to show a fuse, or ‘spark’ being lit and then the journey the flame takes as it reaches the powder keg and explodes to WW1. This is just a variation on the same idea. Play around with it and see how it fits what you are using it for.