The causes of World War II and the role of appeasement.

1. World War II Causes

2. Opening question:
Have you ever tried to deal or
negotiate with someone (friend,
classmate, family member, etc.)
that was unreasonable? No matter
what you did to calm the situation
it was not going to be defused.
Write about this situation and
give details on how you tired to
handle it.

3. Treaty of Versailles

4.  War Guilt Clause…
Blames Germany for
WWI
 Punishes Germany…
Restricts it military
 Humiliates Germany…
Leaving them
embarrassed and
wanting revenge

5. Aggression

6. Totalitarian Dictators
 Mussolini
 Hitler
 Stalin
 Franco
 Tojo
 Were militaristic and
used the military to
look to expand
 Had Complete Power
with a Single Party
System
 Crushed Opponents

8. Think, Pair, Share: What does
Appeasement mean?

9.  Giving into
someone's demands
to keep peace
 Munich Conference
 British and France
agree to Hitler’s
demands
 Allowed Hitler to
annex the
Sudetenland,
Czechoslovakia
Appeasement

10. League of Nations

11.  WEAK
 Failed to keep
Peace
 Did not want war
League of Nations

12. US Isolationism

13.  Stay out of Foreign
Conflicts
 Remain Isolated and
Neutral
 Congress passed a
series of…
Neutrality Acts –
Forbade the sale of
arms to any nation
at war.

14. Rearmament

15.  Hitler Breaks the
Treaty of Versailles
by rebuilding the
military
 Remilitarizes the
Rhineland
 Uses Spanish Civil
War as Dress
Rehearsal to WWII
 Austria Annexed
 The Czech Crisis

16. Remilitarization Rhineland

17. Peace for Our Time
•British Prime Minster
Neville Chamberlain
told cheering crowds
that he had achieved
“peace for out time.”
•Munich Pact
•Saved Europe from
Armageddon.

18. Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression
Pact

19.  Germany & Russia
agree not to go to war
with each other
 Poland divided
 Western Poland
-Germany
 Eastern Poland-Russia
 WWII Starts
 Sept 1, 1939

20. Invasion of Poland

21.  WWII Begins
 Germany uses
Blitzkrieg Tactics
“Lightning Warfare”
 Tanks, Infantry,
artillery, and air
power

22. EXIT SLIP
Name Three
ways the Allies
appeased the
Axis Powers and
was this the right
thing to do?