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Prelude to WWII. Mein Kampf. Aryans Lebensraum —nations power depends on amount and kind of land it occupied Germany must prepare for inevitable war with the Soviet Union. International Pacts. Locarno Pacts (1925) made Germany respect her borders. International Pacts. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Prelude to WWII
Mein Kampf
• Aryans• Lebensraum—nations power depends on
amount and kind of land it occupied– Germany must prepare for inevitable war with the
Soviet Union
International Pacts
• Locarno Pacts (1925) made Germany respect her borders
• Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)– Proposed by US--Kellogg and France--Briand– Outlawed war
• Germany, Italy, and Japan violated these pacts
International Pacts
Fascist aggression (1931-1939)
• Manchuria– (1931-32) Japan
• Ethiopia– (1935) Italy
• German remilitarization– (1935-36)
Fascist aggression (1931-1939)
• Spain– (1936) Franco
• China– (1937) Japan
• Austria– (1938) Germany
NationalismNationalismNationalism
• Czechoslovakia– (1938) Germany
• Albania– (1939) Italy
• Poland– (1939) Germany
Fascist aggression (1931-1939)
WWII
Basic causes
•Militarism• Imperialism•Nationalism• Totalitarianism
Subsidiary causes• Failure of:–Appeasement•March 9, 1935—announced creation of
new air force, 1 week later—the intro of a military draft (100,000 to 550,000)• Anglo-German Naval Pact-June 18, 1935•March 7, 1936—sent troops into
demilitarized Rhineland
• 1936—Rome-Berlin Axis• November 1936—Anti-Comintern Pact
Mussolini and Hitler in 1936
• Anschluss• March 13, 1938• Immediately, Nazis began brutal crackdown
on Austrian Jews
Course of the War
Hitler at Reichstag after announcing Anschluss
• 1938 postcard-- "One People, One Reich, One Führer"
Anschluss
Course of the War
• Sudeten woman dutifully salutes parading Nazis, October 15, 1938
Course of the War
• Chamberlain with the agreement
Munich Agreement September 29, 1938
Chamberlain & Hitler
Course of the War
• Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact• August 23, 1939
Course of the War
German Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, and Stalin
• Late 1939 postcard proclaiming "Danzig is German"
Poland
Course of the War
GERMANY: 1914-1920
Poland, September 1, 1939
• September 3—France and Great Britain declare war on Germany
• Two weeks later (September 17) the Soviet Union sends troops to eastern Poland