Transcript GR #24: The Lead Up to War

GR #24: The Build Up to War
1. Hitler
2. Stalin
Match A-K
with the
appropriate
person
A. Sends opponents to gulags in
Siberia
B. Targets Jews
C. Writes Mein Kampf
D. Brings collective farms to his
country
E. Totalitarian
I. Swastika
F. Communist
J. Short
G. Fascist
K. Mustache
H. Uses censorship & propaganda
WW2 #4: Aggressors on the move
A. What 3 countries will become the Axis
Powers?
B. Why were countries, like Germany,
attracted to fascism / Nazism?
C. What organization was designed to help
keep the peace and prevent future wars?
B. What did this organization do as countries
began to invade other countries?
Spain
• Fascist, Francisco Franco, along
w/military leaders rebel against gov
• Civil War (1936-39): Hitler & Mussolini
send supplies to help fascists & win
World’s Response
• Nothing! Don’t want another war, have too
many problems at home
• US = isolationism – keep out of other
country’s affairs
Should the League of
Nations have done
something to stop them
at this point?
A: What happens in Spain?
B: The U.S. continues isolationism.
What does that mean?
Germany
• Treaty of Versailles:
– limited German military
• Hitler ignores
– 30 mile neutral zone
called Rhineland
• Hitler sends German
troops there
• Britain asks for
appeasement: give in &
hope that’s all he wants!
Should the League of
Nations have done
something to stop
them at this point?
Austria
Austria
• Hitler announces his
plans to take Austria &
Czechoslovakia making
a Third Reich, German
Empire
• Treaty of Vers. says no!
• March 1938: German
troops go into Austria &
annex (take w/o fight) it
Should the League of Nations
have done something to stop
them at this point?
B: What 2 areas has Hitler now taken over?
A: What is appeasement?
Czechoslovakia
check-o-sla-va-kia
• Part of Czech called
Sudetenland consisted
(made up) of many
German ppl
• Hitler demands that
Germany get the Sudet.,
Czech says
for help
no & asks
Munich Conference
• September
1938: Ger,
France, Britain,
Italy meet in
Munich,
Germany to
decide what to
do w/Sudet.
• Neville Chamberlain (Prime Minister of
Britain) used appeasement
– Hitler was given Sudet. but couldn’t
have anything more!
– Chamberlain said, “I believe it is
peace for our time!”
– Czech has to decide what to do –
• Should they fight Hitler w/o help?
• Or just go along with the agreement
made in Munich?
• Within a few days after Munich, Hitler’s
troops occupy the Sudet. where many will
greet them as heroes!
Czech
• 6 months later, Hitler takes over all of
Czech
• Muss invades Albania
• Appeasement has failed!
What will happen next? Will Hitler be
satisfied with his conquests or will he ask
for more?