Anschluss images and text

Quick review (Back of the book)

1. Which Spanish city was destroyed by the Luftwaffe?

2. Which major nation supported the side OPPOSING the Fascists in Spain?

3. The Treaty of Versailles banned political union between which two countries?

4. Name the word beginning with ‘A’ that means ‘political union’.

5. Name the Pact which Germany’s invasion of the Rhineland had torn up.

Quick review (Back of the book)

1. Which Spanish city was destroyed by the Luftwaffe? - Guernica

2. Which major nation supported the side OPPOSING the Fascists in Spain? - Russia

3. The Treaty of Versailles banned political union between which two countries? _Austria

4. Name the word beginning with ‘A’ that means ‘political union’. - Anschluss

5. Name the Pact which Germany’s invasion of the Rhineland had torn up. - Locarno

Topic: 1938 Anschluss with Austria

Learning Intentions• Know how the union of Austria and Germany

.happened• Understand why Britain was unwilling to

prevent the German invasion.• Write a short statement using the reasons for

appeasement.

Use page 34

Additional notes• The Nazis forced Schuschnigg to resign by threatening

invasion. Austrian Nazis also took over key government buildings, including the Ministry of the Interior (which controlled the police).

• Schuschnigg realised that Britain and France would not support him so he resigned to avoid further bloodshed.

• He was replaced by Arthur Seyss-Inquart (the leader of the Austrian Nazis). He supported the Nazi invasion.

• In the city of Vienna alone over 76,000 ‘enemies of the Nazis’ were arrested. The Nazis gained a large army and the gold, steel and coal resources of Austria.

Crowds in Vienna welcoming the Nazi troops.

Hitler announcing the Anschluss in Austria

(15 March, 1938)

The Reichstag (German Parliament)Celebrates Anschluss

Nazi Poster celebrating Anschluss (13 May 1938)

The poster says“One Folk, One Reich (country), One Fuhrer”.

Note the gap where the Polish Corridor is.Note: Hitler’s head is not drawn to scale.

Voting slip from the April 1938

plebiscite (vote)

Where should Hitler go next?

What point is the cartoonist making?