1. Good Morning!
Please get out any of your notes from last class or your homework.
Turn in your post-trial reflection, if you have not already done so.
Be prepared for a short quiz. You’ll need one sheet of paper.

2. Quiz Write a brief response based on your homework reading.
How did Adolf Hitler acquire the Sudetenland in 1938?

3. The Collapse of World Order in the 1930s
Review
The Collapse of World Order in the 1930s

4. Unit 1.3 Question When should we fight?
Guiding Questions: Why had international peace collapsed by 1939?
Three ideologies
Hitler’s foreign policy

5. Ideologies Group Sorting Activity & Discussion
What are the characteristics of
Communism
Fascism
Classical Liberalism – Democracy/Capitalism
Notecard activity review
How will these influence the events leading up to World War II?

6. Post WW I Europe Review Treaty of Versailles League of Nations
Washington Naval Conferences
Spirit of Locarno
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Abyssinia
Manchuria
Impacts on Germany & Italy?

7. Guiding Questions: Why had international peace collapsed by 1939?
How was Hitler’s foreign policy a cause of WW II?

8. Rise of Aggressive States
Benito Mussolini
Fascism
Abyssinia 1935

9. Rise of Aggressive States
Adolf Hitler
Beer Hall Putsch ‘23
Mein Kampf
Hated Communism
National Socialist Party (Nazis)
Anti-Semitism
Elected Chancellor in 1933

10. Hitler 1936 – Reoccupied the Rhineland Hitler the Peacemaker?
How was this a big risk?
Hitler the Peacemaker?
25 year Peace
Demilitarized zones
Germany would join League of Nations
French & British reaction?
Protest, but no fight
What was the message to Hitler?

11. Hitler & Austria 1938 – Crisis in Austria The Plebiscite
Local Nazi groups causing trouble
Wanted Germany to take over – not allowed by Treaty of Versailles
Chancellor Schuschnigg met Hitler
Hitler demanded Nazis join govt and be in control
The Plebiscite
Schuschnigg planned a vote
Enraged Hitler
The Anschluss – March 11, 1938
Reaction of France & Britain?
What message was sent to Hitler?

12. Portfolio Assignment #2
Write a paragraph:
What can we learn about Adolf Hitler from his actions in the Rhineland and in Austria?

13. Today’s Guiding Questions
How far was Hitler’s foreign policy to blame for the outbreak of war in 1939?
Was the policy of appeasement justified?

14. Hitler & Czechoslovakia
The Sudetenland

15. Video Clip
How far was Hitler’s foreign policy to blame for the outbreak of war in 1939?
Was the policy of appeasement justified?
What was Chamberlain thinking?
How did Winston Churchill respond?
According to the video, what is the lesson of the Munich Conference?

16. Appeasement Was the policy of appeasement justified?
Working with documents:
Was the policy of appeasement justified?

17. Review of German Troops, 1939
German Rearmament
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Review of German Troops, 1939

18. German Aggression German Aggression 1936-1939
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German Aggression

19. Chamberlain and Hitler at the Munich Agreement
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Chamberlain and Hitler at the Munich Agreement

20. Central Historical Question
Was the policy of appeasement justified?
Portfolio Assignment #3

21. Documents A & B
How can documents A & B help us make an argument about the policy of appeasement?
See the questions.
Write a thesis statement:
Was the policy of appeasement justified in 1938?
What textual evidence could you use for support?