Causes of World War II

Question 1

What were three (general) causes forWW2?

Answer 1

Hitler’s Foreign Policies
Appeasement
The Munich Conference & Nazi- Soviet Pact

Question 2

How did Hitler plan to defy the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 2

Rebuilding German army and navy
Re-occupying the Rhineland
Regaining territory lost after WW1
Lebensraum

Question 3

What was the Anglo- German Naval Agreement? When?

Answer 3

-1935
-Allowed Germany to expand its navy in relation to the british navy
- past limits set by treaty of versailles (army to 100,000)

Question 4

What did Hitler introduce to expand the milotary?

Answer 4

-Conscription in 1935
-created the luftwaffe(airforce)

Question 5

How did Hitler Re-occupy the Rhineland?

Answer 5

-March 1936
-German troops sent to Rhineland with orders to retreat if French army was sent to me
et them

Question 6

What was Anschluss

Answer 6

The joining together of Germany and Austria in the third Reich.

Question 7

How did Hitler “take over” Austria?

Answer 7

• Hitler threatened the Austrian chancellor to let Nazi’s into his govt.
• Nazi chancellor (replacement) invited German troops to Austria.
• Agreement ABSORBING AUSTRIA INTO THIRD REICH signed

Question 8

What was the sudetenland?

Answer 8

Majority German-speaking regions of Czechslovakia
-Hitler wanted to absorb into third reich

Question 9

What was appeasement?

Answer 9

British foreign policy
- agreeing to Hitler’s demands in the hopes of avoiding war.

Question 10

Why did France and Britain follow appeasement.

Answer 10

-France did not want to risk war over Rhineland
-France believed the Maginot Line would be enough to prevent a German attack.
-Many British though The Treaty was too harsh on Germany.
-Memory of WW1 was still strong
-concern around stalin and communism ( Nazi strongly anti- communist)

Question 11

How was appeasement put in place?

Answer 11

Peace Ballot 1934-35
British voted for a pacifist approach

Question 12

Who was the british prime minister in 1937

Answer 12

Neville Chamberlain

Question 13

What was the Munich conference?

Answer 13

-Meeting on sept. 1938, of chamberlain, Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier
-to discuss the issue of the Sudetenland.

Question 14

What was agreed at the Munich conference?

Answer 14

That Sudetenland would surrender and Hitler would not demand any more territory.
-Chamberlain claimed to have achieved “peace for our time”

Question 15

How did Hitler break the Munich agreement?

Answer 15

March 1939, Hitler took over the rest of Czechoslovakia

Question 16

Who and when was the Nazi0 Soviet Non-Agression pact betwenn

Answer 16

Hitler and Stalin
August 1939

Question 17

Nazi Soviet Non-Agression pact agreements:

Answer 17

10 year period where they would not attack each other or help each others enemies

Secret Clause: to parition Poland between them
(Hitler would not have to wory about the USSR reacting against from the east when they took over Poland)

Question 18

When did Germany invade Poland?

Answer 18

1 September 1939

Question 19

When did Britain and France declare war on Germany

Answer 19

3 sept 1939