WWII: The Beginning - Notes

Hitler Rises to Power

  • Looked up to ______
  • Volunteer for the German Army
  • Twice awarded for bravery
  • Wanted to overturn the Treaty of ______
  • Formed the National Socialist German Workers’ Party
  • ______for short
  • Nazism, swastika
  • His success led him to be chosen as der ______of the Nazi Party
  • Arrested for ______– spent 9 months in ______(Mein Kampf)
  • Germany’s economy ______and many turn to Hitler for ______

Hitler Becomes Chancellor

  • Nazi’s become the ______political party by 1932
  • President Hindenberg named Hitler ______(prime minister)
  • Believed they could ______him and use him
  • Once in office:
  • Called for new ______
  • ______building burnt down, blamed ______
  • Turn Germany into ______state
  • ______(Schutzstaffel)
  • Control of the ______(authority of business and labor)
  • Fuhrer is supreme
  • ______, Hitler ______, burned ______
  • Starts to make war on the ______

Hitler Violates Versailles treaty

  • In 1935, Hitler announces they will no longer ______the treaty
  • League of Nations only issues ______ condemnations
  • Hitler was only more convinced to continue with his plans
  • Forbidden to enter the ______
  • 30 mile wide zone
  • ______between Germany and France
  • Industrial zone
  • 1936, German troops moved into the area
  • France was unwilling to risk war
  • Britain urged ______
  • Giving into an ______to keep ______
  • ______!

Hitler Violates Versailles treaty

  • Hitler claims he would have backed down if challenged
  • Turning point towards ______
  • Strengthened Hitler’s ______and ______
  • Balance of power changed in his favor
  • Felt it was necessary to ______up his expansion
  • Convinced Mussolini they should ally together
  • ______Axis
  • Fight communism
  • ______Powers
  • Germany, Italy and Japan

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The Third Reich

  • 1937, Hitler announces plans to absorb Austria and Czechoslovakia
  • “______”
  • 1938, Hitler ______ Austria
  • Anschluss
  • France and Britain did ______to help ______independence

Sudetenland

  • Hitler then turned to the western border of Czechoslovakia
  • ______
  • Heavily fortified area
  • only ______against the Germans
  • The Czechs ______to give into Hitler's power
  • asked France for help
  • France will again, pick ______

Munich conference

  • Meeting between:
  • ______, France, Britain and Italy
  • Conference held in September of 1938
  • Chamberlain (Britain) believed he could ______peace by giving into Hitler’s demands

Munich Conference

  • Britain and France ______to let Hitler have the Sudetenland
  • Hitler pledged to ______Czechoslovakia’s new ______
  • ______later…Hitler violates the borders
  • Hitler realized he could take any country he wanted
  • France and Britain were not going to ______

Hitler and Stalin sign ______ pact

  • Britain and France wanted the______to help them stop Hitler
  • Stalin was playing ______sides
  • Stalin upset he was not invited to the Munich Pact
  • Fascist Germany and Communist Russia come to an agreement
  • ______1939
  • Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
  • Secretly agreed to not fight if one went to war
  • Equally ______Poland

Invasion of Poland

  • After a union with Stalin, Hitler ______with plans to take Poland
  • Surprise attack happens on ______
  • France and Great Britain ______war on Germany
  • However, Hitler was able to take Poland before any opposing military ______

Invasion of Poland

  • Germany used a new military technique known as ______
  • “______war”
  • Fast-moving airplanes and tanks, followed by massive infantry forces
  • Stalin makes his move
  • Occupies ______half of Poland
  • Annex Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
  • Eventually took ______