Week of 3/2 - 3/6 - Blogs

Monday- went over Germany power point

Tuesday- notes, I was gone

Wednesday- review, I was gone

Thursday- test

Friday- no school

Treaty of Versailles - made for at Germany
- German Reaction
  - mad when it went public
  - had no choice but to sign it
  - Germany did not want the treaty signed
  - Germany had no choice of restarting the war
  - Stab in the Back Theory
Hitler - Austria
- born in 1889
- abused as a child
- sold art in Austria
- got in trouble in school a lot
Swastika - German flag
Beer Hall Putsch - 1923
Hitler's Trail - 1924
- Speaks to German nationalism
Hitler in Prison
- Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
- Anti Semi-ism - Anti Jew
Hitler Rise to Power
- appointed chancellor in 1933
- President Hindenburg dies and Hitler dissolves the Weimer Republic
- Early Actions
  - drops out of the league of nations
  - starts rearming Germany
  - Rearms the German Rhineland area
Anschluss (union) with Austria - 1938
Sudetenland Crisis - 1938
- Reunite German speaking peoples
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 reunite all German speaking people
  - Became know as the "Policy of Appeasement"
Winston Churchill
- opposed appeasement
Hitler takes over Czechoslovakia - 1939
Soviet-German 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 western part
- Russia would get Finland, Estonia, and Latvia, Germany would get Lithuania
- Axis
  - Germany
  - Italy
  - Japan
- World's Reaction
  - Shock
  - Poland was scared
  - Hitler thought it would force Great Britain and France to back out of the their promise to help Poland if attacked
Sitzkreig - The Phony War
- ends in Spring 1940
1940 - Invaded countries
- Belgium
- Netherlands
- Luxembourg
- Denmark
- Norway
- France
France's "Impenetrable" Maginot Line
- had everything - safe

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