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Prelude to WWII

Prelude to WWII. Mein Kampf. Aryans Lebensraum —nations power depends on amount and kind of land it occupied Germany must prepare for inevitable war with the Soviet Union. International Pacts. Locarno Pacts (1925) made Germany respect her borders. International Pacts.

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Prelude to WWII

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  1. Prelude to WWII

  2. Mein Kampf • Aryans • Lebensraum—nations power depends on amount and kind of land it occupied • Germany must prepare for inevitable war with the Soviet Union

  3. International Pacts • Locarno Pacts (1925) made Germany respect her borders

  4. International Pacts • Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) • Proposed by US--Kellogg and France--Briand • Outlawed war • Germany, Italy, and Japan violated these pacts

  5. Fascist aggression (1931-1939) • Manchuria • (1931-32) Japan • Ethiopia • (1935) Italy • German remilitarization • (1935-36)

  6. Fascist aggression (1931-1939) • Spain • (1936) Franco • China • (1937) Japan • Austria • (1938) Germany Nationalism Nationalism Nationalism

  7. Fascist aggression (1931-1939) • Czechoslovakia • (1938) Germany • Albania • (1939) Italy • Poland • (1939) Germany

  8. WWII

  9. Basic causes • Militarism • Imperialism • Nationalism • Totalitarianism

  10. Subsidiary causes • Failure of: • Appeasement • March 9, 1935—announced creation of new air force, 1 week later—the intro of a military draft (100,000 to 550,000) • Anglo-German Naval Pact-June 18, 1935 • March 7, 1936—sent troops into demilitarized Rhineland

  11. 1936—Rome-Berlin Axis • November 1936—Anti-Comintern Pact • Mussolini and Hitler in 1936

  12. Course of the War • Anschluss • March 13, 1938 • Immediately, Nazis began brutal crackdown on Austrian Jews • Hitler at Reichstag after announcing Anschluss

  13. Course of the War • 1938 postcard-- "One People, One Reich, One Führer" • Anschluss

  14. Course of the War • Sudeten woman dutifully salutes parading Nazis, October 15, 1938 September 15, 1938--Hitler demanded cession of the Sudetenland

  15. Course of the War • Munich Agreement • September 29, 1938 • Chamberlain with the agreement • Chamberlain & Hitler

  16. Course of the War • Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact • August 23, 1939 • German Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, and Stalin

  17. Course of the War • Late 1939 postcard proclaiming "Danzig is German" • Poland

  18. GERMANY: 1914-1920

  19. Poland, September 1, 1939

  20. September 3—France and Great Britain declare war on Germany • Two weeks later (September 17) the Soviet Union sends troops to eastern Poland

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