Long Term Causes of WWII

• Treaty of Versailles• Economic Problems• Nazi Party• Hitler• Violations of Versailles

Nazi Party

• National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Bavaria)

• Hitler controlled• 25 points• Citizenship

determined by race

Nazi Party & Swastika

• Religious symbol

• What is it…• Teutonic spirit• Black & White

Magic

Nazi Party

• Nazi party banned for trying to take over the Bavarian Government

• Hitler imprisoned

• Unemployment

Nazi Party

• 1928 Elections• Paul von

Hindenburg names Hitler Chancellor in 1933

• Hitler names himself Fuhrer

• A “New Order”

Long Term Causes of WWII

4. Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler Early Life

• 4-20-1889 Alois Schickelgruber

• Benedictine Monastery

• Poor Student• Dr. Edward Block

Hitler’s WW I Service

• Bavarian army• Iron Crosses• Four years in the

trenches• Hatred for

Communism

Mein Kampf

• 1923 Beer Hall Speech

• Revolution put down, Imprisoned/9mo. 5yrs

• Autobiography• Lebensraum (living

space) Land

Hitler’s Rise to Power

Leader of the Nazi Party

Appointed ChancellorMakes himself

dictatorThird Reich

5. Violations of Versailles

• Germany pulls out of L of N

• Military buildup• Troops take the

Rhineland & Belgium

• Berlin Axis Pact

II. Immediate Causes ofWW II

1. Union With Austria2. Bargaining for Sudetenland3.Appeasement4. Invasion of Poland

1. Union with Austria

                                                                                       

1. Union with Austria

• Austrian chancellor invited to Bavarian Alps

• Signed an agreement appointing Nazis

• German troops marched into Austria

• The world did nothing

2. Sudetenland

                                                                                       

2. Sudtenland

• 3 million German speaking

• Joined to Czechoslovakia

• France & U.K. promised to protect Czec.

• Munich Pact • 3. (appeasement)

4. Invasion of Poland

4. Invasion of Poland

• Sept. 1, 1939• Blitzkrieg (3 wks.)• Britain & France

Declare war• Soviet Union

attacked Poland• Poland ceased to

exist