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Appeasement & WWII
Conditions of Treaty of Versailles
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War Guilt Clause
Pay Reparations
Lose territory
Reduce Military
Demilitarized Zone
League of Nations
Hitler’s
Views
They’d make great slaves
to do labor!
• Treaty of Versailles
was
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Believed
Germany
needed
German
people need
livinglebensraum
USSR!
– “livingThe
space”
space!
UNFAIR!
– Who has land?
• Belief of Slavic people?
YOU ARE THE BRITISH PRIME
MINISTER, NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
When you see a Socrative question,
decide what your decision would be if
you were him
What is the best for Great Britain?
Keep in Mind:
•GB paid a lot of money for WWI and lost a lot of men
•GB is still recovering from the Great Depression
Socrative Question!
Adolf Hitler has started building up Germany’s
military and armaments (weapons). What do you
do?
A. Ignore it, you have other things to worry
about
B. Negotiate with Hitler and come to a mutual
agreement
C. Ask the League of Nations for help
D. Declare war on Germany
Steps to War
1935: Hitler started rearming the military
Tripled the size of the army, ordered 1,000 war
planes built (Luftwaffe), ordered mandatory conscription.
GB and France basically did nothing.
This is the start of
APPEASEMENT
• give in to an aggressors
reasonable demands in order to
avoid conflict.
Socrative Question!
Benito Mussolini, leader of Italy, invades Ethiopia.
A. Ignore it, you have other things to worry
about
B. Negotiate with Mussolini and come to a
mutual agreement
C. Ask the League of Nations for help
D. Declare war on Italy
Steps to War
1935: Mussolini invades Ethiopia
League of Nations does nothing
This encourages Hitler
Created Rome-Berlin Axis
(become the basis for Axis Powers, Japan later joins)
Socrative Question!
Adolf Hitler just sent German troops into the
Rhineland, the demilitarized zone between
Germany and France.
A. Ignore it, you have other things to worry
about
B. Negotiate with Hitler and come to a mutual
agreement
C. Ask the League of Nations for help
D. Declare war on Germany
Steps to War
1936: Hitler sends troops into Rhineland
(demilitiarized zone)
GB & Fr could not get support from the military to do
anything
"The
hours
aftermore
the march
“Weforty-eight
pledge that
now,
than
into
Rhineland
werefor
the an
most nerveever,thewe
shall strive
racking in my life. If the French had
understanding
between European
marched into the Rhineland, we would
peoples,
for one
with
have had toespecially
withdraw with
our tail
our
Western
neighbor
between
our legs,
for the military
resources
at ourhave
disposal
have
nations...We
no would
territorial
been
whollyto
inadequate
demands
make in for even a
moderate resistance."- Hitler
Europe!...Germany will never
break the peace.“ - Hitler
Steps to War
1936-1937: Anti-Comitern Pact
Agreement with Japan against Communism (USSR)
Socrative Question!
Adolf Hitler sent troops into Austria and annexed
the country, making it a part of Germany.
A. Ignore it, you have other things to worry
about
B. Negotiate with Hitler and come to a mutual
agreement
C. Ask the League of Nations for help
D. Declare war on Germany
Steps to War
1938: Hitler met with Austria Prime Minister
Forced them to put Nazis into power
Austria
president won’t
sign agreement
Hitler invades &
declares an
Anschluss
(union) of
Germany and
Austria
"Don't think for one moment that
"If Providence once called me
anybody
earth
is to
going
to
forth
fromon
this
town
be the
thwart
decisions.
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of the
Reich, it
mustI see
in
eye withme with a
doing so eye
havetocharged
Mussolini...England? England will
mission, and that mission could
notbe
move
one finger
for
only
to restore
my dear
Austria...And
France?“
homeland
to the German
Reich.“
--Hitler
Hitler
1938: Munich Agreement
• GB and Fr decide it’s time to meet with Hitler
• Hitler said he wanted the Sudetenland, a
German speaking part of Czechoslovakia.
– Promised it was his “last territorial demand”
• GB and Fr agreed
"I did not think it possible that Czechoslovakia would be
virtually served up to me on a plate by her friends.“
- Hitler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SetNFqcayeA
“All is over. Silent, mournful,
"All these calamities fell upon us
abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia
because of evil counsel, because
recedes into the darkness. She has
tribute
"You were
was given
not offered
the choice
to them
between
at the
suffered in every respect by her
war
rightand
time
dishonor.
nor yet were
You chose
they resisted;
dishonor
association with the Western
but when
and you
theywill
hadhave
done
war."
the most
democracies and with the League of
evil, then was peace made with
Nations, of which she has always
them."
been an obedient servant. ”
“Peace in our time”
Socrative Question!
Adolf Hitler invades and takes the rest of
Czechoslovakia
A. Ignore it, you have other things to worry
about
B. Negotiate with Hitler and come to a mutual
agreement
C. Ask the League of Nations for help
D. Declare war on Germany
Steps to War
1938: Hitler forces the Czech
President to peacefully surrender
"Czechoslovakia has ceased to
exist!... Czechoslovakia showed
its inherent inability to survive
and has therefore now fallen
victim to actual dissolution.“
-Hitler
Non-Aggression Pact
• Hitler now wanted Poland and thought this
might lead to war with GB & Fr and didn’t
want Russia to join in
– 2 front war= led to defeat in WWI
• Agreement: they would not attack each other
and Russia would regain territory lost in WWI
What?!
Socrative Question!
Adolf Hitler invades Poland
A. Ignore it, you have other things to worry
about
B. Negotiate with Hitler and come to a mutual
agreement
C. Ask the League of Nations for help
D. Declare war on Germany
Steps to War
September 1939:
Hitler invades Poland
War!