1. World War II

2. The Treaty of Versailles
Germans
had to accept Blame for WWI
had to pay $33 billion in Reparations
were forced to reduce the Army to 100,000 men
lost all overseas Territories as well as Alsace and Lorraine

3. Hitler as WWI Soldier

4. Hitler built up support in Germany and was arrested for treason

5. Jailed, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf

6. The World’s Great Depression

7. The World’s Great Depression7

8. US Stock Market Crash, 1929

9. Hoovervilles in the USA9

10. Hoovervilles in the USA

11. Franklin D. Roosevelt offers a A New Deal to Americans

12. FDR’s New Deal

13. Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany 1933

14. Hitler Youth

15. The Fuhrer

16. Against the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler built up the German military

17. Under Mussolini, Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935

20. Francisco Franco asked Hitler to help with the Spanish Civil War in 1936

21. Spanish Civil War served as a scrimmage for the German military

22. Japan invaded China in 1937

23. USA remained Pacifists– did not want involved in another European war

24. Hitler’s Goal: Third Reich would last 1,000 years

25. Europe after the Treaty of Versailles—notice the smaller countries south east of Germany

26. Hitler completed the Anschluss– (the union of Austria and Germany), by annexing Austria in 1938.

27. Hitler gobbled up Czechoslovakia in 1939

28. Munich Conference- European leaders met to stop Hitler– but chose to appease him instead

29. Appeasement– give in to avoid conflict

30. Kristallnacht- night of broken glass

31. Kristallnacht