1. Hitler and Europe
With the economy being so poor in Germany and Italy would you have followed Hitler and Mussolini because they promised you a better life with fewer individual rights?

2. Treaty of Versailles? Treaty of Versailles
Limited the size of the German Army
Hitler’s Actions
Ordered all young German men to serve in the army
Ordered factories to produce guns, tanks, airplanes and other weapons.
“Today, Germany; tomorrow, the world.”

3. Treaty of Versailles? Treaty of Versailles
Did not allow German troops in Rhineland, along the boarder of France
Hitler’s Actions
Hitler sent troops to Rhineland
France and British protested but did nothing because they feared war

6. Treaty of Versailles? Treaty of Versailles
Germany and Austria could not unite
Hitler’s Actions
Invaded Austria
Annexed Austria
Hitler thought that all German-speaking people should be one
Again France and Britain did nothing

7. Step by Step           Adolf Hitler ripped up                       the dictated Treaty of Versailles!
1933 Germany leaves the League of Nations created by Versailles 1934 Reconstruction of the Wehrmacht, the navy and the Luftwaffe begun! 1935 Saarland brought back home! Armed power of the Reich regained! 1936 Rheinland completely liberated! 1937 The myth of war guilt ceremoniously extinguished! 1938 Germany and Austria united in the Reich! Greater Germany achieved!
Therefore the whole of Germany will acknowledge their liberator on 10th April. Adolf Hitler All say: YES!

8. Munich Pact
Hitler wanted an area in Czechoslovakia, Sudetenland because about 3 million Germans lived in the area.
Allied leaders feared Hitler would attack all of Czechoslovakia.
September 29, 1938 Allied leaders met Hitler in Munich, Germany.
The leaders used a policy of appeasement, giving in so that others will be happy and will not cause war, and gave Sudetenland to Hitler if he promised not to attack the rest of Czechoslovakia.
Six months after the Pact Hitler took over the rest of Czechoslovakia.
1. Why do you think the European countries gave Hitler what he wanted?

11. Nazi-Soviet Pact
Germany and Russia signed a treaty to not make war with one another.
Soviet Union Gains
Avoid war to build up the military
Gained control of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania
Germany Gains
Protected Germany from fighting a two-front war
Left Germany free to invade Poland
1. Why would Hitler join forces with an enemy of his in Stalin?