The Road to War

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The Road to War

• The events leading to
• World War Two

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• Nov 9, 1918- Kaiser William II fled to Holland
• Nov 11, 1918, a German Republic was proclaimed,
  led by Social Democrat Freidrich Ebert
• Ebert agreed to an armistice the legend began
  Germany was done in by Communist Jew traitors.

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Gustav Streseman

• Measures taken by him brought the inflationary
  spiral under control by 1923
• Negotiated the Dawes Plan
• Economic progress continued until 1929!

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-The Beer Hall Putsch, November, 1923

• Despite its failure, Hitler gained notoriety at
  the trial by denouncing the Republic and the
  Treaty of Versailles
• Light sentence of 5 yearsserved 9 months

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-Hitlers World View- Mein Kampf

• His thought comprised of 19th c. anti-Semitic,
  Volkish writings, along with Social Darwinist,
  antidemocratic and anti-Bolshevik ideas.
• He rejected Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment
  traditions and believed in a new world order
  based on racial nationalism.

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• "Health, child protection, fighting poverty,
  aiding travelers, people's community, helping
  mothers These are the tasks of the National
  Socialist People's Charity Join up"

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- Hitler gains power

• 1932 elections gave the Nazis 230 seats in the
  govt
• Pres.Von Hindenberg appointed Hitler as
  Chancellor in Jan, 1933
• In February, Marinus van der Lubbe set fire to
  the Reichtag building
• Hitler invoked Article 48

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• March 1933, The Enabling Act

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• Bulwark Against Bolshevism

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1934, The Nuremberg Party Congress
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• Rudolf Hess Adolf Hitler's deputy in the
  Nazi Party, minister without portfolio.

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• Joseph Goebbels joined with Hitler in 1924 and
  became Minister of Propaganda and Enlightenment

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• Heinrich Himmler was commander of the
  Schutzstaffel or Blackshirts (Hitlers personal
  bodyguard of 52,000 men)
• Chief of Police
• Chief of the Gestapo
• Supreme Commander of the Home Army.

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• Herman Goering participated in the Beer Hall
  Putsch, became Minister of Aviation and
  Commander of the Luftwaffe.

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• Reinhard Heydrich organized and supervised
  Hitlers Final Solution program.

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• 1935 Tore up the Treaty of Versailles
• Announced the existence of an air force- the
  Luftwaffe
• Began military conscription

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• 193620,000 troops sent into the Rhineland,
  violating the Treaty of Versailles and the
  Locarno Agreements
• Germany Italy form Rome-Berlin Axis
  next month,(Nov.) Germany-Japan Pact

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October, 1936

• Germany Italy form Rome-Berlin Axis
  The next month Germany Japan agree
  to mutual defense Pact

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• 1936- Beginning of the Spanish Civil War
• British and French public opinion was against
  any action-fear of widening war

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60,000 Italian troops, fought in Spain in support
of Fascist General Franco

• German tanks and fighter planes support fascist
  troops

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Feb, 1938

• Germany annexed Austria (Anschluss)
• despite Versailles article 80 prohibition

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Sept, 1938

• The Munich Conference
• The Sudetenalnd
• Neville Chamberlain appeasement

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1939

• MarchHitler conquered Czechoslovakia
• April Italy conquered Albania
• Japan annexed Manchukuo and threatened the
  remainder of China
• Britain and France pledge to aid Poland
• Sept 1st Germany invaded Poland

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Blitzkrieg, Sept. 1st, 1939
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1940

• After Poland The Phony War - winter of
  39-40 was quiet
• April the real war began- German troops invaded
  Denmark, then Norway.
• MayBelgium and the Netherlands fell

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June, 1940The Vichy Govt of Marshall Petain
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• Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat

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Operation Barbarossa
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Turning points in the War

• Battle of Britain
• Pearl Harbor
  - America enters the war
• Operation Barbarossa
• The battle for Stalingrad

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