Word war II in Europe
Hitler’s foreign policy was aggressive
He aimed in Uniting all Germans
His purpose was to expand their living space, called lebensraum taking action
His actions include
Openly rearming the nation
Sending troops to remilitarize the Rhineland (no European power opposed this)
Military agreement with the Italian leader (Mussolini)
By annexing Austria in march 1938
France and Britten responded with their policy of appeasement at Munich in
September 1938 this allowed him to occu111py the Sudetenland
In return Hitler said he will not take any more land (but did anyways)
Hitler seized Bohemia and Moravia, which were part of Czechoslovakia, in march
1938
Memel was taken from Lithuania on march 1939
August 1939, Hitler and the ruler of the soviet-union, Stalin made a Nazi-soviet pact.
Demanding from Poland the return of Danzig and free access east to east Prussia
through the ‘corridor’.
Poland refused and Germany invaded Poland in September 1939
, Outbreak of World War II: Axis vs Allies
ALLIED POWERS AXIS POWERS
Britain Germany
France Japan
Russia 1941-1945 Russia 1939-1941
China Italy 1940-1943
USA 1941-1945 Hungary
Poland Romania +others
South Africa
Australia
New Zealand +others
LEADERS LEADERS
Winston Churchill ( Britain) Adolf Hitler
Frank D Roosevelt (USA) Emperor Hirohito
Joseph Stalin (Russia) Benito Mussolini
DIED DIED
†16 million military †8 million military
†45 million civilians †4 million civilians
†61 million total †12 million total
Reasons for the extermination camps
Hitler decided that he had to get rid of Jews as a race.
This was known as genocide and was the ‘final solution’.
Large extermination camps where built, six million Jews were killed in what was known as
the holocaust.
By 1939 Hitler has successfully removed all basic rights from Jews.
He convinced Germans that Jews were a threat and a danger to the German way of life.
The ‘final solution’ was to exterminate the Jews in concentration camps.
Dachau was the first concentration camp to be built in 1933
From 1933-1945 about 15000 camps were built in Germany
There were different prisoners: prisoners of war, political prisoners, Jews and Nazis that
were disobedient
Thousands died from diseases, starvation, exhaustion, and medical experiments
At first bodies were put into mass graves, this provided to be too slow and too much work.
Large crematoriums were built to burn bodies.
Hitler’s foreign policy was aggressive
He aimed in Uniting all Germans
His purpose was to expand their living space, called lebensraum taking action
His actions include
Openly rearming the nation
Sending troops to remilitarize the Rhineland (no European power opposed this)
Military agreement with the Italian leader (Mussolini)
By annexing Austria in march 1938
France and Britten responded with their policy of appeasement at Munich in
September 1938 this allowed him to occu111py the Sudetenland
In return Hitler said he will not take any more land (but did anyways)
Hitler seized Bohemia and Moravia, which were part of Czechoslovakia, in march
1938
Memel was taken from Lithuania on march 1939
August 1939, Hitler and the ruler of the soviet-union, Stalin made a Nazi-soviet pact.
Demanding from Poland the return of Danzig and free access east to east Prussia
through the ‘corridor’.
Poland refused and Germany invaded Poland in September 1939
, Outbreak of World War II: Axis vs Allies
ALLIED POWERS AXIS POWERS
Britain Germany
France Japan
Russia 1941-1945 Russia 1939-1941
China Italy 1940-1943
USA 1941-1945 Hungary
Poland Romania +others
South Africa
Australia
New Zealand +others
LEADERS LEADERS
Winston Churchill ( Britain) Adolf Hitler
Frank D Roosevelt (USA) Emperor Hirohito
Joseph Stalin (Russia) Benito Mussolini
DIED DIED
†16 million military †8 million military
†45 million civilians †4 million civilians
†61 million total †12 million total
Reasons for the extermination camps
Hitler decided that he had to get rid of Jews as a race.
This was known as genocide and was the ‘final solution’.
Large extermination camps where built, six million Jews were killed in what was known as
the holocaust.
By 1939 Hitler has successfully removed all basic rights from Jews.
He convinced Germans that Jews were a threat and a danger to the German way of life.
The ‘final solution’ was to exterminate the Jews in concentration camps.
Dachau was the first concentration camp to be built in 1933
From 1933-1945 about 15000 camps were built in Germany
There were different prisoners: prisoners of war, political prisoners, Jews and Nazis that
were disobedient
Thousands died from diseases, starvation, exhaustion, and medical experiments
At first bodies were put into mass graves, this provided to be too slow and too much work.
Large crematoriums were built to burn bodies.
