The Road to WWII

1919-1941

Vladimir Lenin-USSR

Treaty of Versailles

Hall of Mirrors

Treaty of Versailles

• Territorial

• The following land was taken away from Germany :

• Alsace-Lorraine (given to France)

• Eupen and Malmedy (given to Belgium)

• Northern Schleswig (given to Denmark)

• Hultschin (given to Czechoslovakia)

• West Prussia, Posen and Upper Silesia (given to Poland)

• The Saar, Danzig and Memel were put under the control of the League of Nations and the people of these regions would be allowed to vote to stay in Germany or not in a future referendum.

• The League of Nations also took control of Germany's overseas colonies.

• Germany had to return to Russia land taken in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Some of this land was made into new states : Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. An enlarged Poland also received some of this land

Treaty of Versailles

• Military

• Germany’s army was reduced to 100,000 men; the army was not allowed tanks

• Germany was not allowed an airforce

• Germany was allowed only 6 capital naval ships and no submarines

• The west of the Rhineland and 50 kms east of the River Rhine was made into a demilitarized zone (DMZ). No German soldier or weapon was allowed into this zone. The Allies were to keep an army of occupation on the west bank of the Rhine for 15 years.

Treaty of Versailles

• Financial

• The loss of vital industrial territory would be

a severe blow to Germany’s economy. Coal

from the Saar and Upper Silesia in particular

was a vital economic loss.

• Germany had to pay $33 billion to the

Allies(GB/France).

• Germany was also forbidden to unite with

Austria to form one superstate.

Treaty of Versailles

• General

• 1. Germany had to admit full responsibility for starting the war. This was Clause 231 - the infamous "War Guilt Clause".

• 2. Germany, as it was responsible for starting the war as stated in clause 231, was therefore responsible for all the war damage caused by the First World War. Therefore, they had to pay reparations, the bulk of which would go to France and Belgium to pay for the damage done to both countries by the war. The figure was eventually put at $33 billion .

• 3. A League of Nations was set up to keep world peace.

The German reaction to the

Treaty of Versailles

• There was anger throughout Germany when the terms were made public.

• The Treaty became known as a Diktat - as it was being forced on them and the Germans had no choice but to sign it.

• Many in Germany did not want the Treaty signed

• German representatives there knew that they had no choice as Germany was incapable of restarting the war again.

The Allies Reaction to Treaty of

Versailles • At first, the treaty seemed to satisfy the Big Three(US, GB,

France)

• Allies believed it was a just peace as it kept Germany weak yet strong enough to stop the spread of communism

• kept the French border with Germany safe from another German attack and created the League of Nations that would end warfare throughout the world

• When Wilson brought treaty back to the US Senate for ratification, the Senate refused to sign it. Why?

• Most countries ultimately were unhappy with the treaty and the results of WWI. Why?

Weimar Republic

Weimer Republic

• Why did it fail in Germany?

League of Nations

• What is it?

• What were it’s weaknesses?

League of Nations

Benito Mussolini

Washington Naval Conference-

1921

4 Power Pact

• a treaty signed by the United States, Great

Britain, France and Japan at the Washington

Naval Conference in 1921.

• countries agreed to respect each others

possessions in the Pacific and not seek further

territory

5 Power Pact

• Signed by Great Britain, the United States,

Japan, France, and Italy

• Designed to prevent an arm’s race

• It limited the construction of battleships,

battle cruisers and aircraft carriers

• Did not restrict cruisers, destroyers or

submarines

9 Power Pact

• Guaranteed Chinese independence and

upheld the Open Door Policy

• Signed by the United States, Japan,

China, France, Great Britain, Italy,

Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal

Hitler as a baby in Austria

Mussolini and Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf “My Struggle”

Excerpts • “If, with the help of his Marxist creed, the Jew is victorious over the other

peoples of the world, his crown will be the funeral wreath of humanity and this

planet will, as it did thousands of years ago, move through the ether devoid of

men.”

• “Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the

Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the

work of the Lord.”

• “Here he stops at nothing, and in his vileness he becomes so gigantic that no

one need be surprised if among our people the personification of the devil as

the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.”

• “With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the

unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her

people. With every means he tries to destroy the racial foundations of the

people he has set out to subjugate. Just as he himself systematically ruins

women and girls, he does not shrink back from pulling down the blood barriers

for others, even on a large scale. It was and it is Jews who bring the Negroes

into the Rhineland, always with the same secret thought and clear aim of

ruining the hated white race by the necessarily resulting bastardization,

throwing it down from its cultural and political height, and himself rising to be

its master.”

Nazi Propaganda

• "All propaganda must be so popular and on such

an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of

those toward whom it is directed will understand

it... Through clever and constant application of

propaganda, people can be made to see

paradise as hell, and also the other way around,

to consider the most wretched sort of life as

paradise."

• -- Adolf Hitler

More Posters

• Nazi Posters: 1933-1945

The Holocaust

• The genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II

• A program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory

• Approximately two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust died

• Some maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' genocide of millions of people in other groups from Germany and other occupied territory

• By this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million people

Who was inferior according to

Hitler? 1. Jews(6 million dead)

2. Gypsies(500,000 to 1.5 million) 3. mentally/physically handicapped people(75,000 to 250,000)

4. Soviet Slavs/POW’s/Troops-(16.5 million)The Russian Academy of Science in 1995 reported civilian victims in the USSR, including Jews, at German hands totaled 13.7 million dead including 7.4 million victims of Nazi genocide, 2.2 million deaths of persons deported to Germany for forced labor; and 4.1 million famine and disease deaths in occupied territory. German captors killed an estimated 2.8 million Soviet POWs through starvation, exposure, and execution

5. Poles(2.5 million dead)

6. Homosexuals(5-15 thousand dead)

7. communists/socialists(many but number not confirmed)

8. dark skinned people(death and forced sterilization)

9. mixed races-"The mulatto children came about through rape or the white mother was a whore," Adolf Hitler

10. Jehovah’s Witnesses(2,500-5,000)

What is the Aryan Race?

• misused by the Nazis to mean a so-called

master race that originated around

Germany

• perfect Aryan was blonde, blue-eyed, tall

and muscular.

• The original term refers to a people

speaking a Indo-European dialect.

Lebensborn-Fount of Life

• The program aimed to promote the growth of "superior" Aryan populations by providing excellent health care and living conditions to women and by restricting access to those deemed “fit”

• Houses were set up throughout Germany and many occupied territories

• Many Lebensborn children were born to unwed mothers which helped lead to many rumors of rape.

• Contrary to widespread rumors, women were not forced to have relations with Aryan Germans

Hitler’s Jewish Question

1933

• Nazis "temporarily" suspend civil liberties for all citizens in 1933-Never restored.

• The Nazis set up the first concentration camp at Dachau in 1933. The first inmates are 200 Communists.

• Jews are prohibited from working as civil servants, doctors in the National Health Service, and teachers in public high schools. All but few Jewish students are banned from public high schools and colleges.

Nuremburg Laws 1935

1. Took away German citizenship from Jews thus making Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights.

2. established membership in the Jewish race as being anyone who either considered themselves Jewish or had three or four Jewish grandparents. People with one or two Jewish grandparents were considered to be mixed race.

- eventually anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent was at risk in Nazi Germany

3. Jews could only marry Jews

4. No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews

1936

• Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses

Kristallnacht-1938

“Night of the Broken Glass”

• On the nights of November 9 and 10, 1938, gangs of Nazi youth roamed through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues and looting.

• In all, 101 synagogues were destroyed and almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed. 26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.

• Jews were physically attacked and beaten and 91 died in the attack.

Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht

1938-Cont.

• All Jewish children are expelled from

public schools in Germany and Austria.

• Nazis take control of Jewish-owned

businesses.

1939

• Hitler orders the

systematic murder of

the mentally and

physically disabled in

Germany and Austria

• Jews are required to

wear armbands or

yellow stars

1940

• Nazis begin deporting

German Jews to

Poland

• Jews are forced into

ghettos

• Nazis begin the first

mass murder of Jews

in Poland

1941

• Jews throughout Eastern Europe are

forced into ghettos

• In two days, German units shoot 33,771

Ukrainian Jews at BabiYar- the largest

single massacre of the Holocaust

• The death camp at Chelmno in Poland

begins murdering Jews

1942

• Nazi officials announce "Final Solution"- their plan to kill all European Jews

• Five death camps begin operation in Poland: Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau

• Ghettos of Eastern Europe are being emptied as thousands of Jews are shipped to death camps.

• The United States, Great Britian, and the Soviet Union acknowledge that Germans are exterminating the Jews of Europe.

1943

• Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto resist as the

Nazis begin new rounds of deportations.

These Jews hold out for nearly a month

before the Nazis put down the uprising.

1944

• Hitler takes over Hungary and begins

deporting 12,000 Hungarian Jews each

day to Auschwitz where they are murdered

1945

• Hitler is defeated and World War II ends in

Europe.

• The Holocaust is over and the death

camps are emptied.

• Many survivors are placed in displaced

persons camps until they find a country

willing to accept them.

1947

• The United Nations establishes a Jewish

homeland in British- controlled Palestine,

which becomes the State of Israel in 1948.

Auschwitz

Nazi Death Camps

Nazi Science Experiments

• Nazi Science in the

Camps

• Mengele's Children -

The Twins of

Auschwitz Page 2

• Josef Mengele was

the chief physician at

Auschwitz

Iosif Jughashvili/Joseph Stalin

Kellogg-Briand Pact

• Afghanistan, Finland, Peru, Albania,

• Guatemala, Portugal, Austria, Hungary,

• Rumania, Bulgaria, Iceland, Russia, China

Latvia, Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and

Slovenes, Denmark, Lithuania, Siam,

• Dominican Republic, Netherlands, Spain,

Egypt, Nicaragua, Sweden, Estonia,

• Norway, Turkey, Ethiopia, Panama, Cuba,

Liberia

Japanese Invasion of Manchuria

Japanese Invasion of Manchuria

• What did this affair prove ?

1.The League could not enforce its authority.

2.A major power could get away with using force

3.An issue so far from Europe was not likely to attract the whole-hearted support of the major European powers in the League - Britain and France.

4. Great Britain was more concerned with it’s territories in the Far East than in the maintenance of law and order.

5. Other powers would see this as a sign that they too could get away with the use of force

6. The League also lost its most powerful member in the Far East and ultimately Japan was to unite with the two other nations that broke League rules - Germany and Italy.

Franklin Roosevelt vs

Herbert Hoover

1932 Election

Good Neighbor Policy

Ethiopia invaded by Mussolini 1936

• Italy lost its Ethiopia colony in Africa at the

1896 Battle of Adua

• one of the worst colonial disasters of

modern history

• Feb. 23, 1935, Italy sends large forces into

Ethiopia

• Oct. 7, 1935, League declared Italy the

aggressor

Italy/Ethiopia Invasion

• Nov. 18 , 1935, Leagues sanctions begin

-arms embargo, financial embargo, non-importation of Italian

goods

• Feb. 1936 - League could not agree on critical oil sanctions mainly

because FDR refused - U.S. controlled 50% world oil trade

• Feb. 29, 1936, FDR signed the 1936 Neutrality Act

1. mandatory arms embargo with warring nations 2. mandatory ban on loans to warring nations

• May 5 - Italy occupied Addis Ababa - annexed all Ethiopia May 9

Generalisimo Francisco Franco

and the Spanish Civil War

FDR vs. Alf Landon 1936

Election of 1936

Rome-Berlin Axis

China Incident

Quarantine Speech

Panay Incident

Anschluss with Austria

Sudetenland/Munich Conference-

1938

Munich Conference

• Neville Chamberlain-Great Britain

• Adolf Hitler-Germany

• Benito Mussolini-Italy

• Edouard Daladier-France

Munich Conference

Chamberlain: “Peace for our time”

Winston Churchill

Soviet-German Non-aggression

Pact

German ambassador

von Ribbentrop and

Soviet dictator Stalin

laugh as Molotov

signs the Nazi-Soviet

Non-Aggression Pact

on August 23, 1939.

Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact

• Russia gave raw materials to Germany in exchange for money and weapons

• Both agreed to stay neutral if the other entered the war

• Secretly agreed to invade and split Poland. Germany would get the western half and USSR the eastern half

• Russia would get Finland, Estonia and Latvia and Germany would get Lithuania

How did the world react to this

pact?

• Shock

• Poland was scared

• Hitler thought it would force Great Britain

and France to back out of their promise to

help Poland if attacked

German invasion of Poland

William Luksenburg

Describes the first night of the German invasion of

Poland

• “Things began to change right the first night. The first night there were blackouts all over town. They would have a curfew. After dark, nobody's supposed to leave the house. The first memorable night is, was, when I...when some of our neighbors tried to...a young man tried to cross the street and he didn't realize just crossing the street, uh, would...would break, breach the curfew and a German soldier said, "Halt," and he kept on running. And he got machine-gunned all the way across, and he fell right in front of our house. So the Germans started yelling, all the men "'Raus" [Get out], all the men out to help carry the body in and made me carry the body with four other persons. And because, the way he was machine-gunned, he was completely like cut in half. When I got home I was completely covered with blood, and I remember when I got into the house, my mother looked at me completely covered.There was something...such an awful thing to see first time. I was just absolutely covered with blood, and I always remember my mother's, uh, expression and my mother's fear and my mother's cry out when she saw me completely covered with blood and that was the first night, the first expression what was...We didn't know what's coming and it was a horrible thing, that first night.”

Blitzkrieg-Lightning War

The Concept of Blitzkrieg.

1. Airforce attacks enemy front-line and rear positions, main roads, airfields and communication centers. At the same time, infantry attacks on the entire frontline and engages enemy.

2. Tank(panzer) units breakthrough main lines of defense and advance deeper into enemy territory. While following, mechanized units pursue and engage defenders preventing them from establishing defensive positions. Infantry continues to engage enemy for the same reason.

3. Infantry attacks enemy flanks in order to link up with other groups to complete the attack and eventually encircle the enemy and/or capture strategic position.

4. Mechanized groups go deeper into the enemy territory outflanking the enemy positions and preventing withdrawing troops and defenders from establishing effective defensive positions.

5. Main force links up with other units encircling and cutting off the enemy.

6. Goal was to achieve victory as quickly as possible

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Sitzkrieg-The Phony War

Tripartite Pact is signed

Axis Powers

Axis Powers

• Main Powers:

Germany, Italy

Japan

• Other Powers:

Albania, Bulgaria,

Finland, Romania,

Thailand, Hungary

Allied Powers

• Main Powers: Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, China, France

• Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Paraguay, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatamala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Venezueala

Allied Powers

• Europe: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Poland, San Marino, Turkey, Yugoslavia

• Africa: Egypt, Ethiopia, Liberia, South Africa

• Asia/Other: China, India, Iran, Iraq, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, New Zealand, Australia, Canada

German Invasion of Denmark and Norway

French and German Plans for

the Battle of France 1940

Maginot Line

Maginot Line

• Maginot line - visual visit - thionville

fortification system

Miracle of Dunkirk

German Advances until the Armistice-Battle of France: June 4-22, 1940

Vichy Goverment

• Led by Marshal Henri

Petain

Free French Underground

• Led by Charles de

Gaulle

Europe prior to the Battle of Britain-July, 1940

Winston Churchill

"What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that

the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the

survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life and

the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and

might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us now. Hitler knows

that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand

up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move

forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world,

including the United States, including all that we have known and cared

for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and

perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us

therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the

British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will

say, "This was their finest hour."

Winston Churchill

Nazi Goals

1. Destroy the Royal Air Force(before

invasion was possible-hopefully by 9-15)

2. Attack and destroy the British Navy

3. Attack British troops

**Germany never succeeded in achieving #1

**German bombers did so poorly against the

RAF that they started bombing at night

only

**Great Britain was aided heavily by the

radar and Ultra

Stages

1. Preliminary raids on GB ships

2. Stage 1: Attack the Royal Air Force

3. Stage 2: Intensified raids on RAF

4. Stage 3: Started attacking London and

other cities

Battle of Britain

Royal Air Force

Luftwaffe

• Messerschmitt Bf 109 • Herman Goering

British Propaganda

Battle of Britain

Bases for Destroyers

• Great Britain gave us 99 year

leases on the following bases:

• Antigua - Naval Air Station, Sea Plane Base British Guiana - Naval Air Station, Sea Plane Base Jamaica - Naval Air Station, Sea Plane Base St. Lucia - Naval Air Station, Sea Plane Base Bermuda - Naval Air Station, Sea Plane Base Newfoundland - Three Army Air Force Bases (Pepperell, Goose Bay and Stephenville), Naval Operating Base Argentia and numerous Marine and Army Bases and Detachments,

88 in total Trinidad - Naval Operating Base, Naval Air Station, Sea Plane Base, Lighter Than Air (Blimp) Base and Radio Station

• US gave Great

Britain old

destroyers:

1940 Election

• FDR • Wendell Wilkie

1940 Election

FDR Signs the Lend-Lease Act

German U-boat Warfare

• 1939 : 222 ships sunk (114 by

submarine)

• 1940 : 1059 ships sunk (471 by

submarine)

• 1941 : 1328 ships sunk (432 by

submarine)

• 1942 : 1661 ships sunk (1159 by

submarine)

• 1943 : 597 ships sunk (463 by

submarine)

• 1944 : 247 ships sunk (132 by

submarine)

• 1945 : 105 ships sunk (56 by

submarine)

Atlantic Charter

• THE ATLANTIC CHARTER-FDR/Churchill

• Spring 1941

• No territorial gain

• No territorial changes without the peoples

support form those countries

• Self-determination

• Free trade

• Destruction of the Nazis and then setting up

a peaceful governmet in Germany

• Freedom of the seas

• Abandon the use of force, disarmament and

a stronger League of Nation

German Invasion of USSR

• Final Plan for

Operation

Barbarossa

Scorched Earth Policy

• Stalin demanded this

of the Soviet troops

as they retreated

• What is this?

Operation Typhoon:

Battle of Moscow September 30 - December 5, 1941

• The Soviet Winter Counteroffensive

December 6, 1941 - April 30, 1942

Japan Invades French Indochina 1941

Japanese Leaders

• Hideki Tojo

• Emperor Hirohito

Admiral Yamamoto

Pearl Harbor-December 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor

December 8, 1941

FDR’s War Speech

• FDR’s War Speech