Hitlers Wars: 1935-1940

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Midterm test Term to Identify o o o Choose 1 of three Who, what, when, where, why. Date as close as you canwrite about significance.

Map Quiz o o o Pick 10 places off the list Same blank map. THERES GONNA BE A DAMN RIVER

Fill in the blank o 3 sets of 4 things to put in order. Ex) Franz Ferdinands death

Matching o o List of definitions Terms

Multiple Choice o Five questions

Review Nazi Germany & Spanish Civil War o Hitler, when he became Chancellor was relatively weak, but began to consolidate power afterwards. Isolating target populations Changing foreign policy.

Spanish Civil War o o Victory of Franco against the Republic. Death of 1 million Spaniards.

Why didnt anyone stop Hitler? o o When Hitler was becoming Chancellor, the Holodomor was happening. Fascist ItalyItalians invaded Ethiopia in 1935 while Germany was re-arming itself. o o Complicated one. There were a lot of things going on, plus a fear of war.

First World War o Debate of origins of this warsuch debated do not occur with World War II.

Expansionist Japan led an assault against other parts of Asia (China) German aggression against neighboring countries for Lebensraum was the cause of the war.

The war Hitler launched was not about overturning Versailles By this point, Versailles was overturned. They got what they wanted from the treaty.

Second World War was a very different conflict. Hitler wanted Race & Space o New world order based on racial supremacy.

Steps Taken in German Territory 6 years of peace and 6 years of war for the Nazi regime. Hitlers vision of the future depended on conquestbelieved that any group of people not expanding was doomed to disappear. Comapred to Socialism in One COuntry o More territory, population

Treaty of Versailles o o o Secret rearmament was occurring during Weimar When Hitler came to power, rearmament was a major priority 1935German government would reintroduce conscription.

Wehrmacht o o German army Another regulation excluded all German Jewish men from service. Through forbidding of their presence in the armycouldnt prove themselves

Nuremburg laws o Defined Aryan and Jewish o o o Based on religion of grandparents

Stripped jews of right to citizenship Introduced measures to isolate the Jewish population Jews & Aryans couldnt marry or have sex with one anotherdrive social wedges as well as political divisions.

1935Other Attacks on Population o Jehovahs witnesses were arrested on a mass scale o Because they refused to serve in the military.

Measures against Homosexual men (S. 135 of German Code)

Standard of evidence for conviction was reduced. A simple denunciation would suffice for scrutiny and trial. Homosexual men were unreliable soldiers susceptible to blackmail

The Berlin Olympics 1936 Huge public success. Provided an excuse to remove certain undesirable elements f the population from public view. Roma were eliminated from berlin and sent away, as were the homeless.

Remilitarization of the Rhineland 1936 Units of the new German army marched into the demilitarized zone of the Rhineland demilitarized under Versailles. o o o If they encountered French resistance, they should fall back fighting. Didnt encounter French oppositionfeared the lack of support from allies. They were allowed to remilitarize successfully

Prestige success.

1936Guring & The Four Year Plan A plan for Germanys economy and military for war o 4 year maximum

The crucial thing was to prepare Germany for war before its enemies could prepare themselves to deal with the German threat

Take advantage of unpreparedness. Luftwaffe o o o 1937German airforce had its big debut in the war of Spain Contest the possibility of military cooperation with fascist Italy. Test of military action without German borders.

1938Annexations of Austria and Czechoslovakia 1938Anschluss of Austria o o Annexed Austria was greeted publically by enthusiasm. Major act against the Treaty of Versailles prohibiting Union.

Why didnt anyone do anything o o 1938Japan was at war with China Versailles was unraveled.

Annexation of Austria was a relatively minor affair. Many Germans were extremely nervous about the risky German policy of Hitler. Each success made him more appealing

Austrian Jews o o Vienna had a large Jewish population There were vicious attacks against Jews all over Austria o o People were thrown out of homes. Public humiliations ensued.

Enormous pressure on Jews to get out of German controlled territories. Refugee crisis ensued.

Refuges of Francos Takeover

The Evian Conference of 1938 Who would take these exiled populations? Dominican Republic decided to take the refugeesthey were the only one to do so. o o Offered to take 100,000 refugees Only 700 take this opportunity.

Late 1937Dominican Republic massacred thousands of Haitians on the border of the Republic and Haiti o This public offer was a method of rehabilitation for the view of the Dominican republic in the eyes of the world. o Hope of Bringing white Europeans to counter the influence of Black populations.

Hitler always wanted to seize the opportunity. o 1932afraid he lost his moment.

1938Austrian annexation led to the annexation of Czechoslovakia

Sudetenland Crisis Site of concerted efforts by Nazis to stir up problems with Czech Germans and government o Sudetenland had a massive amount of German population.

Dealt with the Munich Conference

The Munich Conference 1938 Czech government was convinced to cede the territory to Germany by Neville Chamberlain. Acquiring territory that wasnt taken from Versailles.

Germans were also afraid of war due to losing originally. Peace in Our time Hitler was disappointed o o Before suicide, he considered it a biggest mistake to be cheated out of war. A war against Czechoslovakia would have been easy to winmissed the opportunity of an easy war, which gave German enemies a time to prepare.

Hitler viewed appeasement as his own failure

March 1939Czechoslovakia was fully annexed The protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were developed as a result.

Hitler Feared that the German Populationwere prerpring for Peace Herschel Grynszpan (Jew) o o o Shot a German diplomat Wanted world attention for the plight of German jews Goebbelsprovided the perfect opportunity to unleash an attack on Jews in Germany.

Kristallnacht Pogrom Nov 9, 1938 Local Nazi supporters attacked the visible manifestations of Jewish presence in their communities o o o o Synagogues Businesses Windows smashed. Attacks on individuals.

Attack on Jews was an attempt to get Jews to leave the country In the wake of the pogrom, thousands of Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. o Could be freed only if an indemnity were paid and that their family left he country, while leaving everything behind. All possessions.

Poland & The War in the East Summer of 1939Preparations for an attack on Poland were in full tilt o Consisted of propaganda

Charged poles with killing thousands of Germanspresented the event as a response to Polish aggression.

Sold to the Germans asa defensive waragainst British, Jewish and polish enemies.

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, 1939 August 1939 o o o Formal non-aggression pact was signed. Pronounced non-aggression between two ideological enemies. Enormous advantages for both sides Secret Clauses o o Divide Poland into spheres of influence. As well as the rest of Eastern Europe. Germanscould attack Poland Sovietscould deal with domestic issues.

September 1, 1939 Hitler invaded Poland with the Blitzkrieg 3 weeks later, Poland was invaded by the USSR.

Bombing of Rotterdam 30,000 dead Bombing of a neutral country into forcing the country to sue for peacepromoting fear in the population June 1940s o Of the 100s of 1000s of French soldiers, black ones were killed by members of the German army o Race & Space war.

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