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Causes Of WW2 Flashcards

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Why did the treaties of 1919-23 fail Germany?

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  1. Didn’t disable
  2. Didn’t prevent German rebuilding
  3. Still had significant resources
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How did British opinion on Germany change?

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  1. Satisfied with the harshness
  2. By 1930’s felt it was too harsh
  3. Many nazi sympathisers
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How did France’s opinion on the treaty change?

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  1. Not harsh enough-wanted revenge

2. Saw Hitler was trying to overturn the peace settlement

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How did the treaty of Versailles help hitler?

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  1. Gained sympathisers abroad
  2. So harsh he could gain support
  3. Not harsh enough to stop rearmament
  4. Gave way to the appeasers
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What were Hitler’s foreign policy aims?

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  1. Destroy the Treaty of Versailles
  2. Greater Germany
  3. Destroy communism
  4. Lebensraum
  5. Central European Reich
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How did Hitler start development in the early 1930’s?

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  1. 1933-no more reparations, resignation from the League, leaves world Disarmament Conference, rearmament starts
  2. 1934-10 year non-aggression with Poland(January) attempts Anschluss(July)
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What happened to do with Germany in 1935?

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  1. Conscription, stresa front, Franco-soviet mutual assistance/soviet-czech (march)
  2. Anglo-German naval pact (June)
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What was the significance of the Anglo-German Naval Pact?

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  1. Essentially legalised rearmament

2. Made without France or Italy (Stresa front)

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What were the main German events of the late 1930’s?

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March 1936:Rhineland remilitarisation
1936-39:Spanish civil war
November 1936:anti-Comintern pact
March 1938:Anschluss 
September 1938:Munich agreement
1939:invasion of Czechoslovakia
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What were the events of the demilitarisation of the Rhineland?

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  1. March 1936-two divisions march into the Rhineland. This was risky as the French could crush them
  2. Allies don’t retaliate-British sympathy, German right, French economic crisis, French elections
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What happened in the Spanish civil war and why did the fascists join?

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  1. General Franco led a nationalist revolt against a republican government.
  2. Adolfo and Benito supported Franco. Stalin supported the republicans.
  3. Fascists win in April 1939
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What did hitler and Mussolini have to gain from Spain?

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  1. Fascist ally bordering France
  2. Alliance with Italy-Axis formed in November 1936
  3. Civil war might distract from Central Europe-took action over Austria and Czech.
  4. Tested out the Luftwaffe
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What/when was the anti-Comintern pact?

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Germany and Japan November 1936, Italy 1 year later.

Ensured no one would help the soviets if they invaded anywhere

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What happened in Anschluss?

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  1. Large concentration of German speakers.
  2. Nazi demonstrations in Austria.
  3. February 1938-hitler meets Shuschnigg and persuades him to appoint a nazi Home Secretary
  4. Plebiscite in April-German army “supervised” voters
  5. Huge German victory
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Why didn’t the allies stop appeasement?

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  1. Felt Anschluss was harsh
  2. Weren’t rearmed enough
  3. Plebiscite was legal
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describe the events of the saar plebiscite?

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  1. 1935
  2. Goebbels mounts a huge propaganda campaign
  3. Hitler wins
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what was the Munich agreement?

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  1. Hitler had been threatening to invade the sudetenland
  2. september 1938 Chamberlain flew to munich to parlay
  3. they agreed to give Hitler the Sudetenland
18
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what triggered the end of appeasement?

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  1. march 1939 german troops took over the rest of Czechoslovakia
  2. german invasion of Poland in September caused war
19
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what was the Nazi-Soviet pact?

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  1. signed in august 1939

2. non-agression pact

20
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why was the Nazi-soviet pact signed?

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  1. they agreed to split Poland between them
  2. both knew it wouldn’t last
  3. it gave them time to build up their forces
21
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why did the allies start to deter Germany post 1939?

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  1. invasion of Czechoslovakia

2. british-french guarantee to Poland (March)

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