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Eurorise hitler
The document summarizes key events leading up to and during World War 2 in Europe. It describes Hitler's rise to power in Germany and violations of the Treaty of Versailles, including remilitarization of the Rhineland, annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia. It outlines the formation of the Axis alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan and Germany and Italy's support of Franco's Fascists in the Spanish Civil War. The document then discusses Germany's aggression against Austria and Czechoslovakia as well as the failed appeasement of the Munich Agreement before outlining the invasion of Poland and subsequent events of World War 2.
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Eurorise hitler
- 1. Road to War Hitler’sbeen a naughty boy.
- 2. Anti-comintern Pact ❖ Created the Axis Powers, presumably on the basis of allying against world Communism ❖ Signed in 1936 ❖ Called Berlin-Rome- Tokyo Axis
- 3. Spanish Civil War ❖ Rebellion against left-wing government led my the military and Church ❖ New government was anti-Church and pro-socialism
- 4. Fascists ❖ Franco got military and financial assistance from Mussolini and Hitler, who saw the war as a testing ground for new technology and tactics ❖ Government Loyalists were supported by Russia and their army swelled with foreign volunteers from France, Britain and the U.S.
- 5. Guernica, 1937 Hitler’s CondorLegion destroy a cultural capital of Spain
- 6. A light isextinguished ❖ Fascists win in 1939 ❖ Franco becomes dictator for life ❖ Spain remains neutral throughout the Second World War
- 7. Lebensraum ❖ Hitler determined in 1937 that Germany must occupy Eastern Europe by 1943 to acquire the food sources necessary to sustain the Third Reich in the Hossbach Memorandum. Austria and Czechoslovakia would be the springboards. ❖ After this point Britain and France would have rearmed to the degree that they could stop German aggression. ❖ His army leaders thought France would attempt to stop Germany sooner than Hitler had anticipated.
- 8. Anschluss ❖ Chancellor Dolfuss assassinated by Nazis in 1934 ❖ Chancellor Schuschnigg was forced by Hitler in February 1938 to take Nazis in his cabinet ❖ When he replied to more Nazi intimidation by calling for a plebiscite, Schuschnigg was overthrown in a Nazi invasion
- 9. Sudetenland ❖ Hitler claimed authority over the ethnic German citizens of the Sudetenland by claiming they were being discriminated against. ❖ The Czechs and French wanted to object but P.M. Chamberlain wanted to bargain with Hitler at Munich.
- 10. “Peace in OurTime” “How horrible, fantastic it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing. I am myself a man of peace from the depths of my soul.”
- 11. Churchill on Chamberlain ❖ “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.” ❖ "This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year — unless by supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigor, we rise again." ❖ “I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as "The Boneless Wonder". My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.”
- 12. Kristallnacht ❖ Hitler’s Ambassador to France was assassinated by a young German Jew in exile. 90 German Jews were killed in rioting and 30,000 arrested and sent to concentration camps
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- 15. Divide and Conquer ❖ Non-Aggression Pact with Russia ❖ Isolated Western Powers and gave Stalin the security he craved since his attempts to thwart Hitler earlier had been frustrated by apathy from Britain and France.
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- 18. Maginot Line andSitskrieg!
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