Road to WW2 brief
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?- Created by: Rachel Gilpin
- Created on: 05-03-16 09:12
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- Road to WW2
- Hitler's aims
- Overturn TOV
- Unite all German speakers
- Lebensraum in East
- Hated communism
- Re-armament
- Hitler withdrew from disarmament conference in 1933
- France didn't want to disarm - scared of Germany
- Anglo-German navel agreement was signed in 1935
- 1/3 - still v. big
- Non-aggression pact with Poland for 10 yrs was signed in 1934
- Poland = :D Britain = :D (saw as proof Hitler was peaceful).
- Conscription 1935
- Against TOV - no.'s grew from 10,000 to 1 mil.
- Hitler withdrew from disarmament conference in 1933
- Saar
- Plebiscite: people voted 90% to return to being German
- Rich in coal - good economically
- Plebiscite: people voted 90% to return to being German
- Rhineland
- Marched unarmed troops in
- Against TOV
- Own back garden
- Orders to retreat if stopped by B or F but busy with Abyssinian crisis
- Marched unarmed troops in
- Anschluss
- The joining of Germany and Austria
- Schuschnigg didn't want. Hitler forced him to resign (threatened to invade) and Seyss-Inquart invited Germans into Austria.
- Plebiscite held - people intimidated into voting
- Results were fixed too
- 80,000 arrested for opposing
- Against TOV
- Met 3 aims and was born there
- The joining of Germany and Austria
- Sudetenland
- 1. Hitler began rumours that the Sudeten Germans were being mistreated.
- 2. Hitler was given the German speaking sections at Berchtesgaden
- 3. Then demanded the whole area. He was eventually given it at Munich
- Useful to Hitler
- String defences
- Military bases
- Skoda car factory
- Appeasement
- Chamberlain's policy of giving to avoid war
- Britain needed time to rearm
- More afraid of communist Russia than Nazi Germany
- Chamberlain's policy of giving to avoid war
- Czechoslova.
- After Sudetenland, other parts demanded freedom - Hacha couldn't keep control so invited Nazi's in to do so.
- Chamberlain realised Hitler gone back against his word - promised to act if Poland was invaded
- Hitler promised not to invade any more land after he was given the Sudetenland
- Nazi-Soviet pact
- Germany
- Avoided a war on 2 fronts
- Removed an ally from B and F
- USSR
- Gained time to prepare for war
- Germany
- Avoided a war on 2 fronts
- Removed an ally from B and F
- Germany
- If he was against Germany, there was sure to be a war, but not certain if he allied with Germany
- Gained time to prepare for war
- Invasion of Poland
- September 1st - v. quickly overran the pPolosh people
- Openly it stated to help each other in the even of war, but secretly it stated to split Poland in half
- Rest of world v. surprised
- Hitler hated communism
- Hilter's lebensraum was at the cost of the USSR
- Rest of world v. surprised
- Germany
- Hitler's aims
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