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WWII Begins
Review Questions?
 What were Martin Luther’s biggest issues with the
Catholic Church?
 What is Realpolitik?
 Why was Germany unable to quickly defeat France?
 What was the War Guilt Clause of the Treaty of
Versailles?
The Rise of Hitler:
 Collapse of the American stock exchange led to
economic disaster in Germany
 Germans still felt anger and humiliation about their
defeat in WWI
 Germans doubted their democratic government
 These conditions provided a chance for the rise of a new
leader, Adolf Hitler, and his party, the Nazis
 He promised the disenchanted a better life, jobs, and a
new glorious Germany
The Rise of Hitler:
 The Nazis appealed to the unemployed, young people,
and members of the lower middle class
 In 1932, the Nazis won 33 percent of the votes, more
than any other party
 In January of 1933, Hitler was appointed chancellor, the
head of the German government
 Many Germans believed that they had found a savior for
their nation
Hitler’s War Machine:
 Hitler long dreamed of revenge for WWI
 Revenge:
 Stationed troops in the Rhineland
 Two years later re-united Austria with Germany
Hitler’s War Machine:
 Why did the world do nothing?
 Many countries still concerned with their own economic
problems during the Great Depression
 Thus, ignored
 In 1938, situation escalated when Hitler called for
Czechoslovakia to hand over the Sudetenland
Why did the world do
nothing?
The Great Depression
and their poor economic
situation
Good Job!
Hitler’s War Machine:
 Why?
 Many ethnic Germans lived there
 Goal of Hitler taking this land was to create Lebensraum
(German Living Space)
 Give space for Hitler’s new master race to expand
The Master Race?
 https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/onli
ne-exhibitions/deadly-medicine-creating-the-masterrace/overview-of-exhibition
Questions:
 1.) What was Germany’s goal to dominate Europe?
 2.) Who did they have support and involvement from?
 3.) Who were the initial targets of eugenics?
 4.) Who was this expanded to?
 5.) Using WWII, how did the Nazis racial hygiene
radicalize?
What was a reason for
Hitler creating this Third
Reich?
Lebensraum for a master
race
Hitler’s War Machine:
 Germany threatens war if Czechs do not give it up
 Czechs refuse
 To prevent war, British and France met with Germany
and agreed to hand over Sudetenland to Germany to
avoid war
 These meetings were called the Munich Conference
Hitler’s War Machine:
 Giving into Hitler was an act of appeasement
 Appeasement
 The act of giving into an aggressor to preserve peace
 The Prime Minister of England, Winston Churchill, was
outraged by this act of appeasement
 “The government had to choose between shame and war.
They have chosen shame and they will get war”
Hitler’s War Machine:
Hitler’s War Machine:
 Churchill is right
 Hitler does not stop, he takes the rest of Czechoslovakia
in March of 1939
 Then demands the port of Danzig in Poland, which had
been part of Germany until WWI
 Great Britain and France had enough
 We will defend Poland
Map of Germany:
After WWI
1939
What is it called giving
into an aggressor for
peace?
Appeasement
The Fighting Begins:
 Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939
 Britain and France form the Allied powers and declare
war on Germany, WWII begins
 Germany introduces new fighting style
 Blitzkrieg (Lightening War)
 Concentrated tanks and airplanes in strategic positions to
break through enemy lines
 Poland is defeated
Germany’s Message to the
Public:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IbhIeZsNqg
 Consider two questions while watching
 1.) According to the Nazis, what has the outside world
and Poland done to Germans?
 2.) Why would the Nazis make a video like this?
What was the name of
Germany’s new war
tactic?
Blitzkrieg
The Death of France:
 Germany goes around Maginot Line, French defense on
German border
 They invade through the Ardennes Forrest taking
Holland, Belgium, and Luxemburg
 They then invade Northern France, weakly defended
 In June of 1940, France falls (forced to surrender in
same place Germany surrendered at Versailles)
The Maginot Line:
The French Surrender:
What was the name of
the French fortification?
Maginot Line