Coursework question 2
Long-term cause is a cause which causes an event but it happens a long time before the event, on the other hand a short-term cause also causes an event but it happens shortly before the event. The dividing line between long-term causes and short-term causes is about 5 years before Hitler rise to power; around 1928. This is because the events after 1928 caused a drastic change in Nazi’s popularity in a very short time, and the events before 1928 did cause a change on Nazi’s popularity but it was a change that took a long time.
Long-term causes such as, The Munich Putsch and Hitler’s oratory, personality and leadership, caused Hitler come to power. Firstly, the Munich Putsch caused the rise to power because it taught Hitler and the Nazis that violence wasn’t the better way of getting to power, because they didn’t have the most important element which is the peoples support. Also, Hitler went to prison and had enough time to write his ideals and ideas on his book, Mein Kampf, which afterwards became the Nazi bible. So after this event Hitler changed the party’s structure and started gaining peoples support by the legal way; giving speeches and promising people what they wanted to hear. Secondly, Hitler’s oratory, personality and leadership was one of the most important reasons that took Hitler to power because he knew how to appeal to people, he told them what they wanted to hear, he used all the media possible to transmit the Nazi message, evidence shows that some people voted for the Nazi party only because of Hitler’s charisma even though they didn’t agree with Nazi ideals.