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
