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Aim: How did foreign policy decisions affect the
development of WWII?
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Do Now: Complete the Regents Question of
the day
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Activity #1 Group work
Each member of your group should read the
guided questions provided and analyze their
assigned document. Then TEACH your
document to your peers by helping them to
complete the questions and summarizing
what you learned in the document.
Keep in mind that each document is complex
and your peers are relying on you to
breakdown the document to the best of your
ability and to share with them.
We will go over all the documents together
in 25 minutes.
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Document # 1: Hitler’s Foreign Policy
1)What does Hitler think the Germans must do?
2)How will that help Germany?
3)What gives Germany the “right” according to Mein Kampf?
4)What does he mean by the “soil of the future”?
Document # 2 : Japanese Foreign Policy
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1)What does Hashimoto say is Japan’s problem?
2)What simile does he use to illustrate this problem?
3)What are the options that are offered to fix the problem? Which does he prefer?
4)What is Hashimoto’s version of what happened in Manchuria? What do you think
really happened?
5)In one of the final paragraphs he makes an attack at another nation. What nation
was it and how do you know? Was he justified in his attack?
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Document #3: Mussolini’s Foreign Policy
1)What happened in Ethiopia in 1935?
2)How did Mussolini justify the invasion?
3)What was he trying to create?
4)What was the result and why?
Document #4: League of Nations
1) Why was the League of Nations formed?
2) Who was not involved in the League? Why was this a problem?
3) What was the other weakness of the League? How did Hitler and Mussolini
benefit from this weakness?
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Based on
this political
cartoon what
do you think
appeasemen
t means?
Discuss with
your group
and try to
label the
figures in the
cartoon as to
who they
may
represent in
pre WWII
Europe
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What is Appeasement?
Definitions: To appease
“To bring peace”
“To quiet or calm”
Put simply, appeasement is a policy followed by the
British Government in the 1930’s.
Its aim was to negotiate with aggressive foreign powers
or nations in order to prevent war.
War In Europe

German expansion
– Hitler annexed
(took over) Austria
– Claimed the
Sudetenland

Part of
Czechoslovakia
– Hitler planned to
unite all German
speaking people
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Munich Conference

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Leaders of Britain, France, Italy, and Germany
met in Munich in 1938
Using appeasement, Britain and France
agreed to give Hitler Czechoslovakia and Hitler
promised he would seek no further territory
Supports Appeasement:
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He believed that:
•
Germany had been badly
treated by the Allies after WWI
(Treaty of Versailles)
•
by agreeing to some of the
demands being made by Hitler and
Mussolini, he could avoid a
European war.
Neville Chamberlain:
British Prime Minister,
1937 - 1940
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Against Appeasement
Winston Churchill
British politician will become British
Prime Minister, May 1940 (after
Chamberlain)
Churchill repeatedly warned the British Government
of the dangers of appeasing Hitler’s Germany.
He believed the policy of appeasement was cowardly and gave away too much to
aggressive powers.
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War came on
September 3rd,
1939 when
Germany invaded
Poland! (This is
the official
beginning of
WWII!)
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Exit Ticket: Choose one of the
following and explain it fully
A) Was the Second World War inevitable (always going to happen) given
the harshness of the Treaty of Versailles?
B) Who is responsible for causing World War 2?
1.
Adolf Hitler & Germany: Given that the Germans invaded Poland.
OR
2.
Great Britain, France and the rest of the world: For continuing to give
into Germany’s demands and failing to stop Hitler when he first broke
the Treaty of Versailles.