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Hitler Invades Europe
Long term Cause
• WWI
• Treaty of Versailles
Long Term Causes “con’t”
• Rise of Dictators
Joseph Stalin Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Targets
• 1. List and describe the various actions
taken by Germany that led to the start of
WWII
• 2. Evaluate the world’s response to
Hitler’s actions.
Road to War
• November 5, 1937
• Future of the “Third
Reich”
• Need of Lebensraum
• “Germany’s problems
can be solved only by
means of force…”
Rhineland• De-militarized zone
Austria (1938)
Kurt Von Schuschnigg Berchtesgaden- “The Eagle’s Nest”
Sudetenland
Sudetenland “con’t”
Neville Chamberlain
Munich Pact
• “Peace in our time”
• appeasment
Czechoslovakia
Poland
• Problems for Hitler?
• Two front war
• August 1939
• Nonaggression pact
Blitzkrieg in Poland
• September 1, 1939
The Phony War (Maginot Line)
Fall of France• British troops
overwhelmed
• Fled at Dunkirk
• German
occupation of
France
Battle of Britain
• RAF vs. Luftwaffe
• Summer of 1940
Winston Churchill
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