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World War TwoSo much for ‘The War to End All Wars’..
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History of Hitler.....
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Leader of the NAZI party- Wrote Mein Kampf in 1925/26
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National Socialist German Workers’ Party (1920 - 45)
German Workers Party (1919 - 1920)
Shortened to NAZI party from the German word Nationalsozialist
Far right RacismAnti-communist
Hitler elected chancellor in 1933 by president Paul Von Hindenburg
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What does this mean? When Hitler was appointed Chancellor, Hindenburg signed
the ‘enabling act’ which basically allowed Hitler to have dictorial power without
legal objection
At this point, Hitler started the process of re-grouping and re-building his nation by breaking rules of the treaty of
Versailles
Such as....
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Germany’s new ‘Fuehrer’ - Leaderbroke the rules of the treaty of Versailles by:
*Creating an Airforce*Reintroducing conscription
*Sending troops into the Rhineland, Austria and the Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)
*Making a pact with Italy to create the Berlin-RomeAxis (the new power in Europe)
Why didn’t the other nations intervene during these years (1933 - 39)?
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*Because many thought the terms of the treaty were unreasonable
and
*Because the other nations were feeling threatened by Communism (Russian Communism) and
thought that the support of Germany to fight Communism could be needed.
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The Start of the War..... World War two started when....
Germany invaded.......on the 1st of September 1939
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3rd September 1939..... Neville Chamberlain announced that
...due to hitler refusing to withdraw his forces from Poland....
....was now at war with Germany.
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After this...
also declared war...
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&
Declared Neutrality....But we know it doesn’t stay this way....
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