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Title: The Causes of World War Two


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The Causes of World War Two
  • Long Term Causes

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Treaty of Versailles
  • Reparations
  • Germany was expected to pay 6, 600 billion
    dollars for damages
  • Disarmament
  • Germany was only allowed to have a small military
    and 6 naval ships
  • Disarm the Rhineland
  • Territorial Clause
  • land was taken away from Germany and new
    territory boundaries were created

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Treaty of Versailles
  • Most Germans began to blame the Treaty of
    Versailles for many of the woes of Germany
  • Hitler began to ignore the terms set out in the
    Treaty
  • remilitarizing Germany beginning in 1934
  • moved back into the Rhineland in 1936

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ExpansionAnschluss
  • Germany had been forbidden from joining with
    Austria
  • In March 1938, Hitler sent troops in Austria
  • Britain and France agreed Hitler could join with
    Austria, as long as he STOPPED there

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Expansion
  • Hitler did not keep his word, however
  • He demanded the Sudetenland region of
    Czechoslovakia
  • Chamberlain meet with Hitler in September 1938
  • They signed the Munich Agreement, Hitler could
    have this area but could not invade the rest of
    the country

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Why was nothing done?
  • World War One was still fresh in the minds of
    many Europeans, it had been a little over 20
    years ago
  • Both Britain and France did not want to have
    another war fought on European soil

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Policy of Appeasement
  • Many people began to feel the Treaty of
    Versailles had been to harsh for the people of
    Germany
  • Therefore, they felt his demands were fairly
    justified

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Policy of Appeasement
  • Munich Agreement
  • viewed as triumph
  • Chamberlain came home from signing the agreement
    and is famously quoted as say peace in our time
    while waving the agreement

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Policy of Appeasement
  • Hitler disregarded the Munich agreement and
    further attacked Czechoslovakia, in March 1939
  • The other world leaders realized that nothing
    short of war would stop him
  • They agreed to draw the line at Poland

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Mackenzie King
  • supported appeasement
  • meet with Hitler and later noted in his diary
    that Hitler was a sincere man who had no
    intention to provoke a war
  • did feel Hitlers tactics may be a little heavy
    handed
  • No sacrifice can be too great which can save war

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Canadian Feelings
  • Winnipeg Tribune
  • a Germany with her self respected restored may
    be the means of dispelling the war clouds hanging
    so so ominously over Europe

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League of Nations
  • Established in 1919 as an organization to help
    maintain peace in the world
  • Not all countries joined
  • member countries were low and could leave at any
    time

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League of Nations
  • Had no power
  • all the league could really do was to ask
    countries to stop trading with countries such as
    Japan or Italy
  • why would this not be effective?
  • Had no army
  • soldiers were supposed to be provided by member
    countries

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Formation of Axis Powers
  • Rome - Berlin Axis
  • Italy invaded Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
  • Italy agreed not to interfere in Austria and
    Germany would not come South
  • Japan, Italy and Germany
  • agree to help each other conquer their spheres of
    influence

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War
  • War was on the doorstep of Europe. . .
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