Transcript stock market “crashed,”

 mid-1920s with the worldwide overproduction
of farm products
 resulting lower prices and profits for farmers.
 October, 1929 the U.S. stock market “crashed,”
investors panicked, pulled their money out of
Europe,
 World Wide
 sold their U.S. stocks at cut-rate prices,
 banks closed,
 industry declined,
 unemployment & numbers of homeless
 Mussolini -new Roman Empire.
 In 1935, he invaded Ethiopia &
was condemned by Western
powers
 LoN does nothing
 Rearmament of Germany
 Expansion of Lebensraum: Living space for German
People
 Re-unification with Austria
 Secure Eastern Border:Poland & USSR
 1935 creation of the Luftwaffe (air
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force)
draft -army from 100,000 to
550,000 troops.
Saw Western states as weak &
would not enforce the restrictions
of Versailles
sent troops into the demilitarized
Rhineland.
Britain began policy of
appeasement.
 No military
 US was not a member
 No way of enforcing arms limitations on Germany
 Economic Depression made many nations fearful of
intervention
 Fear of another war led to appeasment
 What were the Western nations scared of? (France
and G B)
 General Francisco Franco
overthrew the republican govt.
w. the help fascist Italy &
Germany
 France, Britain, and the US
Non-Intervention policy.
 The Soviets and international
volunteers unsuccessfully aided
the republicans.
 In 1936, Germany & Italy helped created
Rome-
Berlin Axis.
 Worked together in Spanish Civil War
 in Nov. Germany also signed the
Pact w. Japan
Anti-Comintern
 1938, Hitler forced the Austria to put Nazis in power.
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Hitler annexed Austria
 Hitler demanded the Sudetenland (German speaking
area of Czechoslovakia.)
 Western powers appeased Hitler in return for his
“promise” to not make more demands.
 British PM Neville Chamberlain called it “peace for our
time.”
 But in 1939, Hitler took ALL of western Czechoslovakia
 What pieces of land has Germany taken as their own
and what has the L O N done.
 After Hitler demanded port city of Danzig, Britain
promised to protect new independent country of
Poland
from Nazi aggression.
 Fearful of a two-front war,
Hitler signed the peace
alliance with Communist
USSR
 Stalin was promised east
Poland and the Baltic
states
 September 1, 1939 Hitler
attacked Poland. Britain &
France
declared war.
WWII had begun!
 Why does Hitler want this land and why would he
make a deal with Stalin
 blitzkrieg to conquer in only four weeks
 -Lighting War quick attack from land and air
 Hitler addressed Reichstag
 “I am going into this struggle strong in
heart. My
whole life has been nothing but a struggle for
Germany… I myself am ready to risk my life…
I
demand the same of everyone else…Anyone who thinks
that he can oppose this national
commandment…
will die!”
 Sept. 28, 1939, Germans & Soviets divided a conquered
Poland.