4.5 Germany's warpath (part 2)

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4.5 Germany's warpath

part 2

At the end of this lesson

• You can explain what appeasement  policy means. 
• You will be able to explain why the allies declared war on Germany.

What do you remember?

Answer the following questions!

What does Heim ins Reich mean?

1. Wanting all Germans to belong to one big Germany
2. Wanting more living space for the Germans
3. Austria becomes part of Germany

In what ways does Hitler break the Treaty of Versailles?

How do foreign countries react to this?

1. France immediatly takes action and takes over the Ruhr
2. France, Russia and Brittain take action and declare war on Germany.
3. They let it be and don't really react.

New subject matter!

Make notes!!

War?

• Russia, France and England are worried.
• Hitler also wanted to add the Sudetenland, where German-speaking people in Czechoslovakia lived, to the German Empire.
• He continued to threaten with war....

Avoid!

• Another war must be avoided!  

• Neville Chamberlain (prime minister of the United kingdom) goes to talk to Hitler.

Munich Conference: Hitler is given the Sudetenland to prevent another war. 

All of this is part of the appeasement policy

Politics (of England in particular) to give in to Hitler's demands in order to prevent war.

To appease means ''kalmeren of sussen''.

In what way is the Munich conference an example of appeasement policy?

Breaking promises

• Hitler took over the rest Czechoslovakia as well even though that was against the agreement. 
• His next step was taking over Poland and to prevent Russia from intervening Hitler made a non-agression pact with Stalin: The Molotov Ribbentrop pact.

September 1st 1939: Hitler invades Poland