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• Path to War – Hitler begins violating terms of Treaty of Versailles • Military draft • Build a new air force – European leaders do little • Did not want another war • Believed Hitler’s demands were reasonable
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• Path to War– Hitler begins violating terms of Treaty of Versailles• Military draft • Build a new air force

– European leaders do little• Did not want another war• Believed Hitler’s demands were reasonable

• Hitler wants all German-speaking nations united

• Anschluss (“unification”)– Hitler demands Austria elect more Nazis– Austrian government asks for a vote– Hitler sends troops into Austria

• Hitler wants the Sudetenland– Area of Czechoslovakia with large German-

speaking population

• Munich Conference (Sep 1938)– Britain, France, Italy, and Germany meet to decide

fate of Czechoslovakia – Britain and France agree to Hitler’s terms • “appeasement”

– Make concessions for peace

• Hitler demands Danzig– Polish city since WWI; 90% German

• Britain and France agree to help Poland if Germany invaded (March, 1939)

• The Nazi-Soviet Pact (Aug 1939)– Germany and Russia would not attack each other• Russia would not aid Britain and France against

Germany

• September 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland• September 3, 1939: Britain and France declare

war on Germany – World War II begins

• Battle of Britain – German Luftwaffe (air force) continually bombs

London– Goal: terrorize British into surrendering – Winston Churchill: British Prime Minister


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