1. World
War II

2. MAKE THE CONNECTION The Treaty of Versailles
Germany gets the screw job
Germany hates the treaty
Loss of Money, Army, Land, Pride
Reparations make Germany broke,
THE GREAT DEPRESSION!!!
(Unemployment, Poverty)
Poor/ashamed/starving,
Germans look for a solution
They lose faith in Weimar and try to replace it with “something that works”

3. The First Steps Hitler builds up military!
March 9, 1935 Hitler announced the creation of a new air force
A week later he began a military draft that expanded army from 100,000 to 550,000
Both violated the Treaty of Versailles!

4. Rhineland 1936
The Treaty of Versailles made this a demilitarized zone.
Hitler thought Western states would not use force to maintain the Treaty…
He was Right!

5. Austria, 1938

6. Sudetenland 1938
(land in Czechoslovakia that was largely German)

7. Czechoslovakia 1939

8. Poland Attacked:1939 All these violated the Treaty of Versailles
Blitzkrieg [“Lightening War”]

9. APPEASEMENT (Warm Up)
Europe gave into Hitler’s demands for territory, so Germany would be happy, and peace would be achieved.
Baby cries until it gets a cookie…cries until it gets a toy…
Basically looking the other way and avoiding conflict…sissiees

10. Appeasement: The Munich Agreement, 1938
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
Now we have “peace in our time!” Herr Hitler is a man we can do business with.

11. Britain, United States, Russia
Allies 1945
The Tripartite Pact

12. Italy-Germany-Japan Axis, 1940
The Tripartite Pact

13. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, 1939
G&R promise not to attack each other, and would later divide Europe between each other.
Does Hitler break promises?
Foreign Ministers von Ribbentrop & Molotov

14. Russia does not fight back, or get worried (Part of the Pact)
Poland Attacked: 1939
Russia does not fight back, or get worried (Part of the Pact)

15. France – False Sense of Security?
The Maginot Line
Obstacles created after WWI between France and Germany
Act as barrier

16. France – False Sense of Security?
The Line fails

17. France Surrenders 1940 Most of French army defending the Maginot Line
Blitzkrieg
No other Ally comes to help

18. Now Britain Is All Alone!

19. The Battle of Britain 1940
G.B. was only real threat so Hitler started bombing.
First he bombed military & industrial centers
Unsuccessful, so bombed cities, hoping G.B. would surrender……well they didn’t.

20. Battle of Britain: The “Blitz”

21. Volunteers help lookout for attacks and rescue those in need.
Battle of Britain: The “Blitz”
Volunteers help lookout for attacks and rescue those in need.

22. People hide from bombs in Shelters/Subways

23. Lend-Lease Act
The United States Lends Money/Supplies to the Allies. Want to stay neutral, at the same time wanted to prevent the spread of Nazism

24. The Atlantic Charter treaty of friendship 1941. Two “Big Boys” unite.
Gets more countries involved.

25. Hitler’s Biggest Mistake
Mein Kampf-
Hitler’s book Russia had Slavic people so Hitler treated as inferior.

26. Hitler’s Biggest Mistake
Hitler betrays Stalin and goes back on his Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
All Hitlers promises in Appeasement discreditied .
Russia is T.O.!

27. Operation Barbarossa: June 22, 1941
3,000,000 German soldiers.
3,400 tanks.

28. What will happen? Axis by 1941… Hitler has conquered most of europe.
The axis power made of 3 strong fascist nations
France has surrendered, britain is suffering russia is invaded, u.s. is nowhere

29. Axis by 1941… Hitler has conquered most of europe.
The axis power made of 3 strong fascist nations
France has surrendered, britain is suffering russia is invaded, u.s. is nowhere