Transcript Short WWII Hitler to Poland

AXIS
War in Europe ALLIED
October 1935 Ethiopia invaded by Italy
BACKROUND: Italy unsuccessfully tried to conquer Ethiopia in
the1890s. Ethiopia was one of two independent states in Africa.
A border incident between Ethiopia & Italian Somalia in December
1934 gave Mussolini an excuse to jump in.
All arbitration offers from the League of Nations were rejected &
the Italians invaded Ethiopia in 1935 & started a war it won.
Break the Treaty of Versailles
1934: triple the size of the military to 300,000
Submarines were secretly built in foreign dockyards
Air force pilots were trained & military aircraft built
1935: Britain is told of the existence of the Luftwaffe (Air Force)
Hitler ordered conscription - Army has 1/2 million men
Britain and France did not react so Hitler continued his militarism.
1935: Jews are officially declared non-citizens
September 1935
The two laws were passed by the Third Reich:
Law for the Protection of German Blood &
German Honor
- forbade marriages & sexual relations between
Jews & Germans
- Forbade employment of German females
under 45 in Jewish homes.
Reich Citizenship Law
- Declared those of German or related blood
were Reich citizens; all others were classified
as state subjects, without citizenship rights.
- the definition of a Jew was decreed
SA boycott of Jewish Business 1933
1941 Jews had to wear a
yellow Jewish Star to identify
their race.
Hitler
orders his
new
military to
go into
the
Rhineland
in 1936
Timeline of Nazi Aggression
1936 German soldiers march into the Rhineland to remilitarize the DMZ.
1938, Germany invades and annexes Austria.
1938 German soldiers invade Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia
September 1938 Munich Conference: Britain, France, Germany & Italy let
Hitler keep Sudetenland if he promised to respect Czech borders.
This Appeasement [or concession] ceded Sudeten to Germany. They let
Germany do what it did but told Hitler not to do it again or else. Hitler saw it
as a means to continue his aggression.
• In March 1939, Germany took Czechoslovakia. Britain and France reacted
with Appeasement
• In August 1939,
signed a secret nonaggression pact dividing up Poland and agreeing not to interfere with each
others’ aggression.
MEIN KAMPF
Comes True
August 22, 1939
Adolf Hitler announces to Reichmarshal Hermann Goering,
head of the Luftwaffe, & his generals at Obersalzberg,
Germany that they will invade POLAND.
He rationalizes the invasion as a duty to rid Germany of its
enemies. He also believes the Nazis will get away with it. He
told them…
“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the
Armenians?"
Read the background and speech Hitler delivered to his military leaders in the
handout. Interpret the meaning of the speech and answer the questions.
Timeline of Nazi Aggression
September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland using a
Blitzkrieg or “hit ‘em with all you got” attack.
September 3, 1939 Britain and France declare war
against Germany
September 17, 1939 – USSR invades eastern Poland
September 29, 1939: Germany and USSR divide Poland
October 6 - Poland Surrenders; free Polish forces, pilots,
army flee to Great Britain and set up a defense;
Timeline of Nazi Aggression
1940: Finland signs treaty with USSR becomes an Axis power
Spring 1940: Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands fall to Nazis
May 1 to June 23, 1940: Hitler successfully attacks and takes France
and sets up a French
. under Nazis
July 10, 1940:
begins; Germany bombs Britain
daily Royal Air Force and radar force Hitler to bomb cities
1940: USSR takes Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia
1940: Italy occupies East Africa and invades Egypt
Sept. 1940 signed by Germany, Italy &
Japan.
Italy invades Greece
Hungary and Romania join Axis
Britain barely survives Nazi Blitzkrieg by air
1941Germany invades & takes Greece; Yugoslavia & Iraq joins Axis
1939 Spain
Portugal
Ireland
Turkey* Sweden
Switzerland
Some countries remain NEUTRAL in Europe
USSR
June 22, 1941 - Germany and the AXIS
powers control all over Europe