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• Chronicle the acts of aggression that pushed Europe toward the start of WWII
• Analyze the causes of WWII
• 1933, What does Germany do?
• 1935, What does Germany do? – What
does it violate?
– What does the LON do?
• 1936, what does Germany do next?– Retakes
Rhineland– Hitler breaks
what again?– Hitler is
fulfilling what part of his vision for Germany?• Lebensraum
• What does the LON do?
6. 1936. What happens next?• Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis Pact• Germany, Italy and Japan won’t interfere in
their expansions• What does the LON do?
• Austria 1938• Anschluss =
unification• Breaks what?• What happened
here?
• Munich Conf… Sept 1938
• What happens?– Germany gets
Sudetenland– Hitler makes a
promise…– GB’s PM
Neville Chamberlain calls the Munich Pact “peace for our time”
• Winston Churchill said, “they had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor; they will have war.”
• Churchill also said, “an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” (Manno)
• Sept 1938 is Munich Pact
• March 1939, what does Hitler do?– takes all of
Czechoslovakia• Western powers
– Realize…– Promise…
• Line in the sand moment
• August 1939, Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact…says?– USSR and
Germany will not fight each other if there was war
– Split up Poland
• Sept 1, 1939, Germany takes Poland– Uses
Blitzkrieg tactic
– Tanks vs horses!
• France & GB do what on Sept 3?– Declare War
on Germany
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