felt that the treaty was unfair and humiliating to Germany and the German people. He didn’t agree with the limitations to the military nor the demilitarised of the Rhineland. In addition the treaty forbade Anschluss and forced Germans to live in Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland) and Poland (including Danzig) by removing former German territory. 2. Expand German territory: He wanted Austria to join with Germany in order to get extra lebensraum [living space] for the German people. 3. Defeat Communism: He
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Name_______________________________________ Date____________________________ DBQ 21: Causes of World War II (Adapted from Document-Based Assessment for Global History‚ Walch Education) Historical Context: Even though the 1920’s began with a favorable outlook for peace‚ toward the end of the decade and throughout the 1930’s the clouds of war were forming. Dictators arose in countries that were dissatisfied with the results of World War I. Germany‚ Italy and Japan took aggressive actions‚ and neither
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showed how much they intended to resist Soviet authority‚ to which these demands were wholly unacceptable. In Czechoslovakia‚ Alexander Dubcek began to experiment with a more liberal communism. He expanded freedom of discussion and other intellectual rights‚ when they were being suppressed in the Soviet Union. The crime against soviet ideology was such that they invaded Czechoslovakia and adjusted the communism more to their liking. This resulted in the Brezhnev Doctrine‚ which declared the right
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World War II was one of the most brutal wars in history. From 1939 to 1945‚ the Axis and Allies fought and many lives were lost. After World War I‚ the “war that was supposed to end all war”‚ many countries were at economic recession and no one was prepared for another war. But‚ unfortunately too many things built up which caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany. There were three main causes of WWII. The Treaty of Versailles was one main reason of World War II. It was a poorly written
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live on. 3. What was Anschluss? It meant Austria and Germany combining as one country (one government) It was forbidden. 4. What were the six main steps to war‚ 1935–1939? • Conscription and Rearmament • Rhineland • Austria • Munich • Czechoslovakia • Nazi-Soviet Pact and Poland 5. What is conscription? Conscription is calling men to be in the army‚ not giving them a choice. 6. What date did Hitler introduce conscription in Germany? 1935 7. When did Hitler reoccupy the Rhineland?
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Germany re-occupied the buffer next to France called the Rhineland‚ which had been established in the Treaty of Versailles. Still unchallenged‚ Germany annexed Austria in 1938‚ and then attacked Czechoslovakia. Pursuing the policy of Appeasement‚ the other European powers conceded most of Czechoslovakia to Germany at the Munich conference in 1939. These acts faced little opposition from the other European powers‚ who were doing everything possible to avoid another Great War. Unrepressed‚ Hitler
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War II because of the Munich Agreement. The Munich Agreement was an agreement regarding the Sudetenland Crisis between the major powers of Europe after a conference held in Munich in Germany in 1938. The Sudetenland was an important region of Czechoslovakia. The Treaty of Versailles was the peace treaty created as a result of six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919‚ which put an official end to World War I between the Allies and Central Powers. The Munich Agreement caused
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History – Hitler’s Foreign Policy The Revival of Germany January 1933 – Hitler becomes Chancellor Hitler’s Foreign Policy Aims 1. Destroy Treaty of Versailles (Versailles had limited Germany’s armed forces‚ taken away her colonies‚ forced Germany to give land to her neighbours which meant there were Germans under foreign rule) and impose German control in Europe. This involved rearmament & the destruction of French alliance system. 2. Union of German-Speaking people → Hitler
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September 22-24‚ 1938. Document B clearly states‚ “You will find that in a period of time‚ which may not be measured by years‚ but may be measured only by months‚ Czechoslovakia will be engulfed in the Nazi regime…”. This tells us that because no one is stopping Hitler‚ he is easily able to control more and more parts of Czechoslovakia. No one stopped Hitler from taking Sudetenland so he is just going to keep taking more and more land and doing what he wants. Allowing something small to occur can
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The blame for the Cold War cannot be placed on one person -- it developed as a series of chain reactions as a struggle for supremacy. It can be argued that the Cold War was inevitable‚ and therefore no one’s fault‚ due to the differences in the capitalist and communist ideologies. It was only the need for self-preservation that had caused the two countries to sink their differences temporarily during the Second World War. Yet many of the tensions that existed in the Cold War can be attributed to
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