Mar. 19th - Mar. 23rd

[6Hannah]

Monday
• WW2 movie review
Tuesday
• Continuing WW1 and WW2 movie
Wednesday
• Pictures of Hitler
• Treaty of Versailles
o Territorial
 The following land taken away from Germany
 Alcase-Lorraine (France)
 Eupen and Malmedy (Belgium)
 Northern Schleswig
 Hultschin (Czechoslovakia)
 West Prussia, Posen and Upper Silesia (Poland)
o Military
 Germany’s army was reduced to 100,000 men
 German army was not allowed tanks
 Germany was not allowed to have an air force
 Germany was allowed only 6 capital naval ships and no submarines
 The Rhineland 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 this west bank of the Rhine for 15 years
o Financial
 The loss of territory was a severe blow to Germany’s economy
• Coal from the Saar and Upper Silesia in particular
 Germany had to pay $33 billion to the Allies (GB/France)
o General
o 1. Germany had to admit full responsibility for starting the war
 This was Clause 231- the infamous “War Guilt Clause”
o 2. Germany was forbidden to unite with Austria
o 3. A League of Nations was set up to keep world peace
• The German reaction to the treaty of Versailles
o There was anger throughout Germany when the terms were made public
o The Treaty was seen by many Germans as being forced on them and the Germans had no choice but to sign it
o Many right wing groups such as the Nazis believes in the Dolchstoß Theory (Stab in The Back Theory)
• Weimar Republic (Germany’s new democratic government after WW1)
• Adolf Hitler
o Born 1889 in Austria
o Family moved to Germany when he was three
o Had five siblings-three died in infancy
o Mom-Klara
o Dad-Alois
o His brother, Edmund, died in 1900
o After his brother’s death, Hitler changed and became moodier and withdrawn
o Had more issues at school and with his dad
o His dad died in 1903 and his mom died in 1907
o All three of these deaths had a massive impact on the young Hitler
o In Mein Kampf, Hitler said he first became anti-Semitic during his time in Vienna, Austria
Thursday
• Hitler struggled in school
• Vienna, Austria 1905-1913
o Hitler failed to get into the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna two different times
o Started selling paintings in the streets of Vienna
o Failed his examination to get into the Austria-Hungarian army in 1914
o Moved to Munich, Germany and joined the Germany army to fight in WW1
• Hitler in WW1
o Hitler was wounded twice while serving
 Injured by a shell explosion
 Temporarily blinded by a mustard gas attack
o There is a story that Hitler could have been shot by the French soldier, Henry Tandy, but was spared
• Pictures of him in military uniform
• After WW1
o Hitler starts spying on the new Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi) for the German military
o Hitler quickly realized that his group discussed topics that he believed in
o Hitler dropped out of the military and joined the Nazi Party and quickly rose to become the leader
o Hitler found out that he had the power of speech and persuasion during this time
• Beer Hall Putsch-1923
• Hitler’s trial
o In prison sentenced for 5 years, good behavior got him out after 9 months
• Hitler’s Rise to Power
o Hitler is appointed Chancellor in 1933
o President Paul von Hindenburg dies shortly after and Hitler dissolves the Weimar Republic
o Early Actions of Hitler:
 Drops out of the League of Nations
 Starts rearming Germany
 Rearms the Rhineland area
• Anschluss with Austria -1938
o Map
o Cartoon
• Sudetenland Crisis-1938
• “Re-uniting German speaking peoples”
• Munich Conference-1938
o Naval Chamberlain-Great Britain
 Hitler was given the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia
 Hitler promised that he was done taking over territories
 Hitler wanted to re-unite all German speaking people
 Became known as the “Policy of Appeasement”
• Cartoons
• Winston Churchill - Opposed Appeasement
o “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last”
• Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia - March 1939
• Czech President Hacha’s Meeting with Hitler – March 1939
• Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact
o German Ambassador von Ribbentrop and Soviet dictator Stalin
• Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
o Russia gave materials to Germany in exchange for money and weapons
o Both agreed to stay neutral if the other entered the war
o Secretly agreed to invade and split Poland. Germany would get the western half and USSR the eastern half
o Russia would get Finland, Estonia and Latvia and Germany would get Lithuania
• Cartoon
Friday
• Mrs. Svendsen came in to talk about schedules