3.1 Nazi Germany prepares for war (TTO-3)

3.1: Nazi Germany prepares for war
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3.1: Nazi Germany prepares for war
3.1: Nazi Germany prepares for war

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Goals
You can explain four out of 5 causes of WWII
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • Economic crises (1923 and 1929)
  • The dictatorship of Hitler (nationalism→ Heims in Reich, Lebensraum)
  • Appeasement politics

You can give an examples of how Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles 


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Basic information about WWII

  • 1st of September 1939: Hitler invades Poland and as a result, Britain and France declare war on Germany → This could count as the beginning of WWII in Europe.


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The war was between the allies and central powers. Move the countries to the correct alliance.  
The allies
The Central Powers
Germany
Great Britain
France
Japan
China
The United States
Italy
Russia

Slide 4 - Drag question

A few causes of WWII

  1. Treaty of Versailles
  2. Economic crises (1923 and 1929)
  3. Dictatorship of Hitler (nationalism→ Heims in Reich, Lebensraum)
  4. Appeasement politics

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Why was the Treaty of Versailles a cause for WWII?

Slide 6 - Open question

The Treaty of Versailles
Why was it a cause?
  • The treaty was too humiliating for most Germans
  • The treaty was too harsh (ex; not being able to pay all the reparations and restoring the economy at the same time)
  • The treaty became part of the stab-in-the-back-myth → The government of the Weimar Republic was blamed for all the new problems since they had accepted the treaty. They had betrayed the German soldiers and German people→ This made way for extreme political parties like the Nazi Party.

Stab-in-the-back-myth source

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Why was the economic depression after 1929 a cause for WWII?

Slide 8 - Open question

Economic crises
1923
  • hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
  • Led to Hitler trying to stage a coup in Munich (which failed).
  • After his imprisonment, he decided to use the democratic system to overthrow the government.
The great depression (1929-1930’s)
  • led to massive unemployment/ homelessness.
  • The Weimar republic was hit very hard because they couldn’t rely on the Dawes Plan anymore.
  • It gave way for anti-democratic parties like the Nazi Party that promised that they would solve everything.

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Dictatorship of Adolf Hitler
Heim ins Reich = back home to the Reich
  • After WWI Austria-Hungary was split up and in all these new states lived German minorities
  • Germany itself had lost territory and so German inhabitants
  • Hitler tried to convince people that they should establish a Greater German Reich (a large state for all Germans)


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Dictatorship of Adolf Hitler
The German economy should become self-sufficient, so it wouldn’t need to rely on other countries for supplies.
  • Hitler wanted to conquer Eastern European countries to gain possession of sufficient farmland and raw materials
  • These areas were seen as Lebensraum→ future living space for the Aryan Race.

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Homework
Do question 4, 5,  6,  7 and 8 of paragraph 3.1. 
Do these questions on Eduhint (online platform). 

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