Download GR #24: The Lead Up to War

On the move Treaty of Versailles:
• limited German military
– Hitler ignores (1935)
• 30 mile neutral zone
called Rhineland (1936)
– Hitler sends German
troops there
• Britain is supposed to
defend France IF Germany
put troops in Rhineland –
BUT don’t & France doesn’t
want to fight w/o an ally
Should the League of
Nations have done
something to stop
them at this point?
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B/W Wars #12:
The Build Up to War
1. Hitler
2. Stalin
Match A-K
with the
appropriate
person
A. Sends opponents to gulags in
Siberia
B. Targets Jewish people
C. Writes Mein Kampf
D. Brings collective farms to his
country
E. Totalitarian
I. Swastika
F. Communist
J. Short
G. Fascist
K. Mustache
H. Uses censorship & propaganda
HW: Test, Notebook, and
Timeline due Th / Fri
ON LEFT:
1.Name for a government that controls
everything one does.
2.Fascist leader of Germany.
3.Fascist leader of Italy.
4.Military leader of Japan.
5.First area Japan invaded.
6.Area that was supposed to be demilitarized but Nazis will put troops there.
B/W Wars #12: Build Up to war
Hitler gains more power by…
• Fire burns the Reichstag
Blamed on Communists
• Hitler uses it as an excuse to
gain more power
– Passed law – restrict
freedoms, arrest suspects
w/o reason
• 1933, he gets absolute
power for 4 years
Work means bread
– Fix economy – putting
many to work!
Totalitarian regime:
• SS: protection squad, arrest opposition, very
violent / deadly
• Gestapo: secret police
• Concentration camps: prisons for political
opponents
• Propaganda
– Burned books
– Kids joined Hitler Youth
HW: Test, Notebook, and
Timeline due Th / Fri
ON LEFT:
1.Name for a government that controls
everything one does.
2.Fascist leader of Germany.
3.Fascist leader of Italy.
4.Military leader of Japan.
5.First area Japan invaded.
6.Area that was supposed to be demilitarized but Nazis will put troops there.
Spain
• Fascist, Francisco Franco, rebel against
gov
• Civil War (1936-39): Hitler & Mussolini
send supplies to help fascists & win
World’s Response
• Nothing! Don’t want another war, have too
many problems at home
• US = isolationist – keep out of other
country’s affairs
Should the League of
Nations have done
something to stop them
at this point?
Third Reich:
German Empire
Austria:
• Hitler stirs up chaos –
and then says he’ll end
it!
• March 1938: German
troops go into Austria &
annex (take w/o fight) it
Should the League of
Nations have done
something to stop them
at this point?
France has virtually no
gov – old gov quit
Britain NOT interested in
war
“not one British soldier, not one
penny of British money must be
involved in a quarrel which is no
concern of ours”
- Sums up British mood at the time -
Describe Hitler’s arrival in Austria
Czechoslovakia
• Part of Czech called
Sudetenland consisted
(made up) of many
German ppl
• Hitler demands that
Germany get the Sudet.,
Czech says
for help
no & asks
– France & USSR have
pledged support
Munich Conference
• September 30,
1938: Ger, Fr, GB,
Italy meet in
Munich, Germany
to decide what to
do w/Sudet.
• Who’s not here
who might be
interested in the
outcome?
• Neville Chamberlain (Prime Minister of
Britain) used appeasement (give in)
– Hitler was given Sudet. but couldn’t
have anything more!
– Chamberlain said, “I believe it is
peace for our time!”
– Czech has to decide what to do –
• Should they fight Hitler w/o help?
• Or just go along with the agreement
made in Munich?
• Next day, Hitler’s troops occupy the Sudet.
where many will greet them as heroes!
• Czech president refuses to fight
Czech
• March 1939, Hitler takes
over all of Czech
• Muss invades Albania
• Appeasement has failed!
What will happen next?
Will Hitler be satisfied
with his conquests or will
he ask for more?