How Did the Second World War Start?

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How Did the Second World War Start?

• A presentation by Miss Hayton

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Its all about being friends with each other!

• Some countries were friends with certain
  countries and not others!
• France and Britain were friendly with each other.
• Germany and Italy were friendly with each other.

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How did the war start?

• To find out how the Second World War started we
  have to look back at the First World War.
• This map of Europe shows some of the countries
  involved.

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How, and why did World War I start?

• World War I began in 1914 and lasted until 1918.
  It was supposed to be The war to end all wars.
• Countries had formed friendships or alliances
  with each other.
• Different countries began to build up their
  armies and build bigger, more powerful ships.

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What was the main cause?

• Germany, Austria and Italy were allies.
• France, Britain and Russia were allies.
• A Serbian man called Gavrilo Princip assassinated
  the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in
  Sarajevo.

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What happened next?

• Gavrilo Princip was from Serbia, so Austria
  wanted them to apologise and pay compensation.
  Serbia refused, so Austria declared war.
• Russia was Serbias ally, so they declared war on
  Austria.

• Germany declared war on Russia and Serbia.
• France declared war on Austria and Germany.
  Italy declared war on France and Russia.
• Germany invaded Belgium, so Britain declared war.

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How long did the war last?

• The war that was supposed to end by Christmas
  1914 only ended on November 11th 1918.
• During the war millions of people were killed or
  injured.

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How did World War I end?

• By September 1918 the German High Command
  realised that the war was lost.
• The Armistice was signed at 11 a.m. on November
  11th 1918.
• In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles was signed.

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What did the treaty do?

• Many people were determined to stop war happening
  again.
• A League of Nations was established to enable
  countries to keep peace.
• Germany was made to take the blame.

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What happened after the war?

• Germany was made to pay out huge sums of money in
  compensation.
• They were also made to give up some land.

• Germany was also forced to reduce the size of her
  armies and to sink her ships.
• As a result the country became bankrupt.

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What happened next?

• The country had no money, people had no jobs and
  were starving.
• Some people resented the status and money that
  others, such as Jews had. Jews were persecuted
  and made to give up their jobs and money
• Adolf Hitler rose to power with promises to help
  the German people.
• He set up youth groups and spoke at rallies.

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The situation got worse!

• All over Europe, people began to suffer as jobs
  disappeared.
• Germany began to re-build her ships and build up
  her armies.

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What did we do?

• The British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain
  believed that he could negotiate with Adolf
  Hitler.
• He met Herr Hitler at Munich in 1938 and declared
  the meeting was successful, Peace in our time
  he said.

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Was it Peace in our time?

• Unfortunately not!
• Germany, with the support of her allies,
  continued to invade other countries.
• In September 1939 Britain issued an ultimatum,
  after Germany invaded Poland. It was ignored, so
  war was declared.

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What happened first?

• War was declared on September 3rd 1939.
• Air raid sirens sounded, but it was a false
  alarm.
• The evacuation of children began.