Monday - Germany's WW2 Story (1919 - 1945)
- 3 major Powers
- Germany, Italy, and Japan
- Others
- Slovak Republican, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Croatia
- Other that worked with Germany
- Finland, Thailand, and Iraq
- Puppet Government -
- Albania, Burma, Montenegro, Quisling Norway, and Vichy France
Treaty of Versailles
- Starting Point of WW2
- Changed the Map of Europe
Teritorial
- Taken away from Germany
- Lost land to France, Belgium, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Poland
League of Nations took control of Germany's overseas colonies.
Military
- Germany's army was reduced to 100,000 men
- Germany was not allowed tanks
- Germanywas not allowed to have an air force
- Germany allowed only 6 capital naval ships and no submarines
- The Rhinland was made into a demiliterized zone.
- No German soldier or weapon was allowed into this zone
- The Allies were to keep an army of opcupation on the west bacnk of the Rhine for 15 years
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)
General
- Germany had to admit full responsibility for starting the war
- This was Clause 231- the infamous "War Guilt Clause"
- Germany was forbidden to unite with Austria
- A league of Nations was set up to keep worlp peace
Germany's Reaction
- There was anger throughout Germany when the terms were made public
- Treaty was seen by many Germans as being forced on them and the Germans had no choice but to sign it
- German representatives in Paris knew that they had no choice as Germany was incapable of restarting the war again
- Many right wing groups such as the Nazis believed in the Dolchstoss Theory (Stab in the Back Theory)
Weimar Republic
- New Democratic Government set up in Germany after WW1
Tuesday - Bruns contiued on his PowerPoint
Adolf Hitler
- Born in 1889 in Austria
- Family moved to Germany when he was three
- Had five siblings - three died in infancy
- Mom (Klara)
- Dad (Alois)
- His Brother, Edmund, died in 1900
- After his brother's death, Hitler changed and became more moody and withdrawn
- Had more issues at school and with his dad
- His dad died in 1903 and his mom died in 1907
- All three of these deaths had a huge impact on the young Hitler
- In Mein Kampf, Hitler said he first became anti-Srmitic during his time in Vienna, Austria
Veinna, Austrai (1905-1913)
- HItler failed to get into the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna two different times
- Stated selling paintings in the streets of Vienna
- Failed his examination to get into the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1914
- Movd to Munich, Germany and joined the German Army when WW1 broke out in 1914
Hitler in WW1
- HItler was wounded twice while serving
- Injured by a shell explosion
- Temporarily blinded by a mustard gas attack
- There is a story that Hitler could have been shot by the French soldier, Henry Tandy, but was spared.
After WW1
- Hitler starts spying on the new Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi) for the German military
- HItler quickly realized that this group discussed topics that he believed in \
- Hitler dropped out of the military and joined the Nazi Party and quickly rose to become the leader
- Hitler found out that he had the power of speech and persuasion during this time
Berr Hall Putsch (1923) Biggest Failure (Place were Polotics happened)
- Hitler was is prison
- Sentenced for 5 yoears
- Served 9 months
Wdnesday - Went over out weapons
Thursday - Bruns got back into his PowerPoint
Hitler's Rise to Power
- Hitler is appointed Chancellor in 1933
- President Paul von Hindenburg dies shortly after and Hitler dissolves the Weimer Republic
- Early Actions of Hitler:
- Drops out of the League of Nations
- Starts rearming Germany
- Rearms the German Rhineland area
Munich Conference
- Neville Chamberlain (Great Britain)
- Adolf Hitler (Germany)
- Benito Mussolini (Italy)
- Edouard Daladier (France)
Munich Conference "Peace for our time"
- 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 know as the "Policy of Appeasement"
Friday - Bruns Continued on his PowerPoint
- 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 the USSR the eastern half. n
- Russia would get FInland, Estonia and Latvia and Germany would Lithuania
How Did the World React to this Pact?
-Shock
- Poland was stuck "between a rock and a hard place"
- HItler thought it would force Great Britain and France to back out of their promise to help Poland if attacked
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