1. 2/28 Focus: Important Terms: Do Now:
As Hitler gained power, he gradually began to strip Jews of their rights.
The Nuremberg Laws were enacted as an attempt to remove Jews from German society.
Important Terms:
Anti-Semitism
Do Now:
What is one way that Hitler tried to deal with the economic crisis in Germany caused by the Great Depression.

2. Hitler as Dictator
Increased German economic and military power led many Germans to support Hitler’s actions

3. Anti-Semitism Hitler used Jews as a scapegoat for German problems
Began passing laws to remove Jews from German life
Poster reads “Behind the enemy powers, the Jew”

4. Anti-Semitism
Nazi’s seized Jewish property and businesses and gave them to non-Jews

5. The sign on the Truck reads “the Jewish department store has ruined the small German businesses”

7. Anti-Semitism
Nuremburg laws (1935) took away political rights and German citizenship of Jews
Prohibited from marrying non-Jews
could not attend German schools
Could not hold government jobs
Could not write or publish books

8. Anti-Semitism
Jews were forced to identify themselves by wearing a yellow star

9. Anti-Semitism Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) Nov. 9-10th 1938
Nazis organized violence against Jews in Germany
1,000’s of Jewish synagogues, businesses, cemeteries, and homes destroyed

10. Anti-Semitism Nazis began arresting Jews after Kristallnacht
30,000 Jews arrested for being Jewish on the day after Kristallnacht
Began to require that Jews live is separate areas known as ghettos

11. Anti-Semitism
Hitler eventually began to send Jews to concentration camps as part of the “Final Solution”
Led to the deaths of over 6 million Jews during the Holocaust

12. Points for Discussion
What economic and political conditions in Germany contributed to the rise of Fascism there?
What groups did Hitler blame for Germany’s problems?
How did Hitler improve the economic conditions in Germany?

13. 3/1 Focus: Important Terms: Do Now:
During the 1930’s, the league of Nations responded to German, Italian, and Japanese aggression by adopting a policy of appeasement to avoid war.
Important Terms:
Do Now:
What was the purpose of the Nuremburg Laws.

14. ****Quiz tomorrow…bring notebook****
3/2 Focus:
In the late 1930’s, Germany an Japan used military force to build empires. Their aggressive actions led to the outbreak of WWII.
Important Terms:
Appeasement
Do Now:
Identify two countries that were created from German territory by the Treaty of Versailles.
****Quiz tomorrow…bring notebook****

15. Aggression and Appeasement
The Road to War
Aggression and Appeasement

16. The League of Nations Organization created to maintain peace after WWI
United States Senate had voted to not join the organization
Had no method of enforcing decisions
Was seen as weak

17. Reaction of the League of Nations
Challenges to Peace
Japanese
Aggression in Asia
Italian
Aggression in Africa
Invasion of Manchuria (1931)
Invasion of all of China (1937)
Invasion of Ethiopia
(1935)
Reaction of the League of Nations
Protested Japanese actions
Japan left League of Nations
Banned sale of weapons to Italy
Some members did not honor the ban

18. German Aggression in Europe
Hitler began to rearm Germany in 1935
Was a violation of the Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations mildly condemned Hitler’s actions

19. German Aggression in Europe
Hitler moves troops into the border area with France known as the Rhineland in 1936
Treaty of Versailles had banned German troops in this area

20. German Aggression in Europe
Hitler and Mussolini provided military assistance to Fascist dictator Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War
Provided weapons
German Luftwaffe bombed Spanish cities that supported Franco’s enemies

21. Pablo Picasso’s Guernica
Pablo Picasso's Guernica was inspired by the German bombing of Guernica

22. German Aggression in Europe
Germany and Italy formed an alliance in 1936
Known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
Japan joined the alliance
Germany, Italy, and Japan become the Axis Powers

23. German Aggression in Europe
Hitler made Austria part of the German Reich (Empire) in 1938

24. German Aggression in Europe
Hitler demand Germany be given the Sudetenland in Oct. 1938
Territory in western Czechoslovakia
Many Germans lived here

25. Appeasement
Western democracies reacted to German aggression with a policy of appeasement
Gave in to the aggressive demands and actions to avoid war and maintain peace

26. Appeasement The Munich Conference of 1938
Meeting between Germany, Italy, France, and Britain
Britain and France agreed to let Hitler have the Sudetenland
British Prime Minster Neville Chamberlain believed war could be avoided by giving in to Hitler

27. Appeasement Hitler invaded all of Czechoslovakia in March of 1939
Demonstrated that policy of appeasement had failed to stop Hitler

29. Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Hitler and Stalin signed agreement to not attack each other (Aug. 23, 1939)