Transcript Act of Aggression and Appeasement PP (How did Hitler cause WWII)

Hitler’s Acts of Aggression 
Defying the Treaty of Versailles
1. Hitler demanded
lebensraum for the
Third Reich
(3rd German Empire)
2. enlarged military
(1935)
3. sent troops to
reoccupy/remilitarize
the Rhineland (1936)
Hitler’s Acts of Aggression 
Defying the Treaty of Versailles
4. annexed Austria 
Anschluss
(March 1938)
Hitler’s Acts of Aggression 
Defying the Treaty of Versailles
5. Hitler demanded the Sudetenland region
(western, defensive border of Czechoslovakia)
where 3.5 million Germans lived
5. The Munich Conference
A. France, Great Britain, Italy &
Germany met in Munich,
Germany, on September 29,
1938 to discuss Hitler’s
demand
B. Czechs not invited
C. Munich Agreement: chose to
APPEASE Hitler & gave him
Sudetenland if he promised
not to take anything more
D. appeasement: giving in to the
demands of an aggressor to
avoid conflict
More Aggression
6. Hitler took rest of
Czechoslovakia
(March 1939)
7. Mussolini invaded
Albania
(April 1939)
More Aggression
8. Hitler demanded the return of Free City of
Danzig (“international” city at northern tip of
Polish Corridor) that they lost in WWI
And Meanwhile …
9. Hitler & Stalin signed
Nazi-Soviet
Nonaggression Pact
(August 23, 1939):
promised not to attack
one another 
top secret part of pact:
Germany & USSR
would split Poland after
it was attacked
WAR!
10. Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939
11. Britain & France finally stopped appeasing Hitler &
declared war