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Is the Swastika propaganda?
• What does the Swastika mean? Now or Then?
• Where did the symbol come from?
• Why did Hitler adapt the Swastika?
World War II
Part 1
Hitler’s Aggression and
British Appeasement
Hitler’s Popularity
• He criticized the Treaty of Versailles from
WWI for being unfair to Germans.
• March 1935 he says Germany will build a
new air force and increase the army.
Hitler Does What He Wants
• 1936 Hitler orders troops into the
Rhineland.
What is the Rhineland?
A German territory west of the Rhine
River along the French border.
France Gets Scared
• France doesn’t feel safe with the
German military so close but can’t act
without British help.
The British Don’t Want a Fight
• The British choose appeasement instead of
force to deal with Germany’s actions.
A. What is Appeasement?
• The idea that if you give into another
government’s demands, you can avoid war
and keep peace.
Hitler Continues to Get What He
Wants
Hitler gains an ally in Italy’s Benito
Mussolini
Hitler takes over Austria because
it’s a German speaking nation
Hitler wants the Sudetenland
Sudetenland- an area in western
Czechoslovakia where many German people
live
“YOUR YES”
“For the Fuhrer”
Compromise???
• At the Munich
Conference in
September 1938 Britain
and France agreed to
allow Hitler to take the
Sudetenland.
• Hitler, in turn, promised
not to expand
Germany’s territory any
more.
Chamberlain Declares Peace
• British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
returns from the Munich Conference and
declares “Peace in Our Time”
Nazi propaganda card showing the incorporation into the German Reich of the
Czech Sudetenland, the French Saarland, and the Austrian state.
“Returning to the Old Reich”
Surprise, Surprise
Hitler Lied
• In March 1939, German forces
take over Czechoslovakia.
• Hitler then demands control of
Danzig, a German city inside
Polish territory.
Adolph Hitler: “Poland,
Nazi-Germany demands
the city of Danzig!”
Great Britain: “Poland, if Hitler’s
Germany invades there will be
WAR!!!”
Essential Question
• Did appeasement contribute to the start of World War 2?
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