Steps to War - Causes of WWII
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- Created on: 25-03-15 20:36
Hitler's Aims and Foreign Policy
CAUSED ANSCHLUSS
- AIM TO UNITE ALL GERMAN SPEAKING PEOPLE UNDER HIS RULE
- MEANT THAT HE WOULD TRY TO BRING THE 7 MILLION GERMAN SPEAKING PEOPLE IN AUSTRIA BACK
CAUSED TAKEOVER OF SAAR AND SUDETENLAND
- AIM TO GAIN TERRITORY FOR GERMANY AND PROVIDE LIVING SPACE FOR GERMAN PEOPLE
- MEANT THAT HE WOULD TRY TO REGAIN LAND INHABITED BY GERMANS
CAUSED REARMAMENT AND REMILITERISATION OF RHINELAND
- AIM TO MAKE GERMANY A GREAT POWER AGAIN
- MEANT THAT HE WOULD TRY AND PROVE IT BY BUILDING UP MILITARY FORCES AND GOOD DEFENCE
Rearmament
GAVE HITLER CONFIDENCE
- HE HAD SUCCESSFULLY REVERSED TERMS OF TREATY - LEAD ONTO REVERSING OTHER TERMS
HIGHLIGHTED HOW EMPTY HIS PROMISES WERE
- SIGNED A TEN YEAR NON AGGRESSION PACT WITH POLAND IN 1934 - PLEASED BRITAIN AND CONVINCED THEM THAT HITLERS AIMS WERE PEACEFUL - BROKEN IN 1939 WHEN HE INVADED CZECHOSLOVAKIA
- SIGNED ANGLO-GERMAN NAVAL AGREEMENT - LIMITED GERMAN NAVY TO 35% OF BRITISH FLEET - HITLER ABUSED THE FACT THAT IT DID NOT MENTION SUBMARINES - TOOK ADVANTAGE AND REARMED
PROVED THAT AUSTRALIA WERE ON HIS SIDE
- AUSTRIAN NAZI PARTY HAD OBEYED HITLER WHEN HE HAD TOLD THEM TO FIGHT FOR ANSCHLUSS - MUSSOLINI ONLY THING THAT HAD PREVENTED IT
Remilitersation of Rhineland
GAVE HITLER CONFIDENCE
- SUCCESSFULLY REVERSED TREATY - CONFIDENCE TO GO FURTHER E.G. ANSCHLUSS
- GONE AGAINST ADVICE OF GENERALS AND BEEN PROVED RIGHT
LEAD TO SIGNING OF ROME-BERLIN AXIS
- GOT MUSSOLINI ON HIS SIDE - SECOND ATTEMPT AT ANSCHLUSS WOULD NOT FAIL
- STARTED TO DIVIDE EUROPE
- GAVE HITLER OPPERTUNITY TO TEST NEW WEAPONS AND TRAIN SOLDIERS WHEN SUPPORTING FASCIST GENERAL IN SPANISH CIVIL WAR - BUILDING UP ARMY
CAUSED MOVEMENT TOWARDS REARMAMENT IN BRITAIN
- AGAINST AGREEMENTS OF LEAGUE THAT BRITAIN WOULD NOT REARM - GAVE GERMANY EXCUSE TO DO SO
- KEPT TENSIONS HIGH - COUNTRIES PREPARING FOR WAR
CAUSE OF APPEASEMENT
SIGNIFIED AGGRESSION - CHAMBERLAIN WANTED NEGOTIATION AND NOT FORCE
Anschluss
GAVE HITLER CONFIDENCE
- MANAGED TO REVERSE TERMS OF TREATY
- CONFIDENCE LEAD TO OTHER ATTACKS
- PROVED STRENGTH OF ALLIANCE WITH MUSSOLIINI - ANSCHLUSS HAD NOT BEEN STOPPED - HIGHLIGHTED DIVIDE IN EUROPE
GERMANY HAD GAINED RESOURCES
- GERMANY HAD RECOURCES OF AUSTRIA
- MADE GERMANY STRONGER AND MORE LIKELY TO CARRY OUT OTHER ATTACKS E.G. SUDETENLAND CRISIS
- LEAD TO SUDETENLAND CRISIS
- HITLER NOW HAD THREE SIDES OF SUDETENLAND
- PUT HITLER NI STRONG POSITION TO ATTACK
CAUSE OF APPEASEMENT
-AGGRESSION - CHAMBERLAIN WANTED NEGOTIATION AND NOT FORCE
Appeasement
UNRELIABLE WAY OF KEEPING PEACE
- DEPENDED ON TRUSTING HITLER - COULD NOT BE TRUSTED - HAD BROKEN SO MANY PROMISES
- ALLOWED HITLER TO INCREASE STRENGTH AND POWER
MADE BRITAIN LOOK WEAK
- GAVE HITLER CONFIDENCE THAT BRITAIN WOULD NOT OPPOSE ACTION TAKEN AGAINST TREATY
Sudetenland Crisis
CHANGED BRITAINS ATTITUDE TOWARDS HITLER
- HITLER HAD PROVED THAT HE COULD NOT BE TRUSTED
- BRITAIN REALISED THAT HITLER DID NOT HAVE PEACEFUL INTENTIONS
- MADE BRITAIN PREPARE FOR WAR
LEFT CZECHOSLOVAKIA VULNERABLE TO ATTACK
- LEAD TO MUNICH AGREEMENT WHICH LEAD TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA BEING VULNERABLE
- LEAD TO ATTACK OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA
- THIS WOULD MARK END OF APPEASEMENT
Munich Agreement
GAVE HITLER CONFIDENCE
- MAINTAINED PEACE BUT MADE BRITAIN LOOK WEAK
- MADE HITLER BELIEVE BRITAIN WOULD NOT OPPOSE EXPANSION
- LEAD TO OCCUPATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA
GAINED RESOURCES OF SUDETENLAND
- HITLER BUILDING UP ARMY
- BECOMING STRONGER
Munich Agreement
HITLER REALISED THAT BRITAIN WOULD NOT PROTECT USSR OR POLAND IF INVADED
- USSR HAD BEEN EXCLUDED FROM CONFERENCE
- LEAD TO HITLER INVADING POLAND - TRIGGER CAUSE FOR WAR
MORE MOVEMENT TOWARDS REARMAMENT IN BRITAIN
- PREPARING FOR WAR
- BUILDING UP ARMER FORCES
- WEAPONS INVOLVED - TENSION
Takeover of Czechoslovakia
END OF APPEASEMENT
- HITLER PROVED THAT HE COULD NOT BE TRUSTED
- DIDN'T REVERSE TREATY - WENT AGAINST PROMISES
- TENSION BUILT
MADE BRITAIN SIGN AGREEMENT TO PROTECT POLAND
- HITLER WANTED DANZIG
- IF HITLER TRIED TO TAKE OVER, WAR WOULD START
CONSCRIPTION INTRODUCED TO BRITAIN
- MOVEMENT TOWARDS WAR IN BRITAIN - PREPARING FOR WAR
HITLER WITHDREW NON-AGGRESSION PACT WITH POLAND
- MEANT THAT HE COULD INVADE
- IF HE INVADED, BRITAIN WOULD GET INVOLVED, CAUSING WAR
Nazi-Soviet pact
MADE ATTACK OF POLAND INEVITABLE
- HITLER HAD PREVENTED DANGER OF WAR ON TWO FRONTS
- WAR OF TWO FRONTS HAD BEEN THE DOWNFALL OF GERMANY IN WWII
ATTACK ON POLAND WOULD LEAD TO WAR
- BRITAIN HAD SIGNED PACT - BRITAIN WOULD GET INVOLVED IN POLAND ATTACK
- SINCE POLAND ATTACK WAS INEVITABLE, WAR OF EUROPE WAS
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