Hitler

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping
it will eat him last. Winston Churchill

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2. What do you think this means? Write your answer
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Hitlers March Across Western Europe

• A Study in Appeasement

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Appeasement

• The policy of granting concessions to potential
  enemies to maintain peace

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Hitler Rises to Power

• Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany in 1933. He
  was elected to this position.

Paul von Hindenburg, German President 1925-34,
congratulating Adolf Hitler upon his appointment
as Chancellor
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Hitler Violates the Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty ended WWI
• Conditions of treaty
• Not allowed to have an Army rearmed Germany
• No expansion of territory took over the
  Rhineland (1938)

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Moved into Austria

• Favored by most Austrians (1938)
• Hitler declared Anschluss German for union
• Britain and France condemn, but took no action

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Hitler accepts the ovation of the Reichstag after
announcing the 'peaceful' acquisition of Austria
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Hitler Wanted Sudetenland

• Part of Czechoslovakia
• Hitler met with British Prime Minister Neville
  Chamberlain in Munich
• Neither Czechoslovakia, nor the Soviet Union,
  their ally, were asked to attend
• Great Britain decided to appease Germany
• Agreement known as the Munich Pact

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Neville Chamberlain, left, Hitler, center, and an
unidentified advisor, Munich Conference, 1938
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Chamberlain returns from his meeting with Adolf
Hitler waving the Munich pact.
Peace For Our Time!
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Hitler Took Sudetenland (1938)

• Promised not to take any more land
• Chamberlain said that the pact guaranteed peace
  for our time

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A Sudeten woman is unable to conceal her misery
as she dutifully salutes the triumphant Hitler.
September 1938
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Hitler took Czechoslovakia

• He felt Britain and France too weak to stop him
• Chamberlain realized Hitler couldnt be trusted

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Crowds of Sudeten Germans gather in the Eger
Marktplatz to greet their liberator.
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Hitler took Poland

• 1939
• Britain and France declared war on Germany
• Triggered the official beginning of World War II

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Aftermath of the German invasion of Poland