8.Outbreak of war

• History
• Upper Secondary (Key Stage 4)
• GCSE

What did Hitler do in the Rhineland?

1. Remilitarise
2. Invade
3. Unify
4. Ignore

What did Hitler do in Austria?

1. Remilitarise
2. Invade
3. Unify
4. Ignore

What did Hitler do in the Sudetenland?

1. Remilitarise
2. Invade
3. Unify
4. Ignore

What did Hitler do in Poland?

1. Remilitarise
2. Invade
3. Unify
4. Ignore

Danzig

This port had been given to Poland after the TOV. It was a german city. Hitler sent his ships to bomb it. 

USSR

Stalin was in control and agreed this attack as part of the NAzi Soviet pact. He send his troops across the Polish border. 

Brest-Litovsk

When Russia left WW1 in 1917 they signed a highly punitive treaty with Germany at Brest-Litovsk. 

Warsaw

This is the capital of Poland and the city that fell allowing Germany to occupy Poland. During the war it housed a ghetto for Jewish people. 

Czech Republic

This is the area that had been Czechoslovakia and contained the Sudetenland. Hitler did not have to worry about it as he had allready occupied the area. 

What do you already know about the port of Danzig? 

Which words are unusual here? 

What are the key points in Source E? 

Source E

Drag the pictures into the right order to show the story of the outbreak of WW2. 

Which was more to blame for the outbreak of World War 2?

Appeasement

The Nazi-Soviet Pact

Hitler

Failure of the League of Nations

The Treaty of Versailles

The Depression