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