Transcript End of WWI. Origins of WWII.

VIII-The End of World War I
A) Numerical Superiority
• 1) Now that America
has entered the war,
the Allies have two
million fresh troops.
• 2) America wins
several battles that
break the German
lines and force them
slowly back to the
French/German
border
• 3) Germany is quickly
losing the war and
decides to surrender
before the front line
moves into Germany
itself.
• 4) In Nov of 1918
Germany surrenders
B) WW1’s Human Costs
• 1) 100,000 Americans
are killed in combat
• 2) 1 million British
dead
• 3) 1.5 million French
dead
• 4) 1.7 million Russian
dead
• 5) 2 million
German/Austrian
dead
• 6) Estimated 10
million wounded
XI- Treaty of Versailles
• A) Leniency-America
wanted Europe to take
it easy on Germany
after the war.
• 1) President Wilson
wanted to create a
“peace without end”
• 2) If peace was to last,
Germany had to be
accepted back into the
neighborhood
• 4) England and
France wanted to
punish Germany for
the destruction and
death caused by the
war.
• 5) England and
France wanted
Germany to pay
heavy
REPARATIONS
• a) Reparationspayments or fines for
damages and death
• 6) America is
overruled and
Germany is forced to
sign the Treaty of
Versailles.
• B) The treaty– Made Germany pay
heavy reparations
which wreak the
German economy
– Limited the size of
Germany’s Army and
Navy
– Germany is forced to
accept the blame for
causing the war
• 1) This treaty will
create great amounts
of anger, shame and
resentment among the
German people.
• 2) In 15 years a young
German WW1 vet
will harness this
German anger and use
it to create a new
German political
party-
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Step by Step
Adolf Hitler ripped up
the dictated Treaty of
Versailles!
1933 Germany leaves the League
of Nations created by Versailles
1934 Reconstruction of the
Wehrmacht, the navy and the
Luftwaffe begun!
1935 Saarland brought back
home!
Armed power of the Reich
regained!
1936 Rheinland completely
liberated!
1937 The myth of war guilt
ceremoniously extinguished!
1938 Germany and Austria united
in the Reich!
Greater Germany achieved!
Therefore the whole of Germany
will acknowledge its liberator on
10 April.
Adolf Hitler All say: YES!
• 3) Adolph Hitler will
lead the Nazi party to
take over Germany
and regain Germany’s
“stolen pride”
• 4) Hitler breaks all of
the Treaty of
Versailles articles and
invades France in
1939 starting WWII.