1. How did World War II get started?

2. Adolf Hitler - Leader of Germany and the Nazi Party

3. Hitler wants to expand Germany
The Rhineland, March 1936
Hitler wants to expand Germany
Sudetendland, Czechoslovakia
1938
Austria, 1938

4. The Munich Conference France and Britain with Germany Appeasement
Hitler “promises” not to take any more land.

5. Germany-Soviet Union Pact, 1938
German Expansion
Rhineland
Austria
Czechoslovakia
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6. Germany Invades Poland September 1, 1939

7. Blitzkrieg was born in Poland
“Lighting Warfare”
Attack enemy at weakest point
Combination of lateral and forward movements
large mechanized ground forces
Coordinated use of airpower
double envelopment

8. Blitzkrieg in Poland

9. Blitzkrieg

10. Germany invades Poland
Britain and France declare war on Germany
World War II has officially started!!!