Learning goal 3 (partly)

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• Leerjaar 3

Questions about goal 2?

ADOLF HITLER /BENITO MUSSOLINI /FASCISM /MEIN KAMPF

VOLKSGEMEINSCHAFT

ARYAN RACE

ANTI-SEMITISM

NATIONAL SOCIALISM

TOTALITARIAN STATE

ENABLING ACT

Goal 3: You explain how Hitler tries to expand his empire. 

Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles (Rheinland and Anschluss Austria)

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