3.1 War in Europe

Chapter 3: The Second World War

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Chapter 3: The Second World War

3.1 War in Europe

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Describe in one sentence what you think is happening in these pictures.


(You'll get two minutes per picture!)

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Alliance

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Persecution

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Invade

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Prepare for war
  1. Lebensraum im Osten: Germany needs more space to survive. 
  2. Heim ins Reich: Ethnic Germans have to live in Germany.

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Allies are needed
  • The Axis Powers:  Germany, Italy and Japan
  • 1939: Hitler signed a non-aggression pact with Stalin...

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...Which he breaks in 1941.

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Hitler used conscription, arms factories, etc. to prepare for war. Why was this against the Treaty of Versailles?

Slide 9 - Open question

Appeasement
  • Great Brittain and France allowed Hitler to expand German territory: Appeasement Policy 
  • This way Hitler got:
  1. The Rhineland (1936)
  2.  Austria (1938)       der Anschluss
  3. Sudetenland (1938 at the Munich Conference)

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Why did Great Brittain and France allow Hitler to expand German territory?

Slide 11 - Open question

Official start of the war
  • The Appeasement Policy stops when Germany invades Poland in 1939.
  • Great Brittain and France declare war on Germany.
  • World War II begins.

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