https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov en-us 2016-06-21 15:54:25 UTC 2025-11-07 03:46:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/aws/118727912/681b87d19eb0bf8b591e302d4cd320a49c6da5aa/6148fdb17c5e854b3f452e1bc5ab557f.jpg t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115166095 Germany Invaded Poland

• Last straw that triggered World War II
• Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion
• Appeasement abandoned - Britain and France made good on their promise to aid Poland if it was attacked by Germany

]]> 2016-06-21 16:01:54 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115166095 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115171350 2016-06-21 17:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115171350 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115171863 Britain and France declared war on Germany 

• Initiated the World War II

]]> 2016-06-21 17:25:20 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115171863 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115172182 Hitler withdrew from the League of Nations and the Geneva Disarmament Conference 

• Allowed Hitler to pursue his aggressive foreign policy without having to regard the objections and threats from the League 
• Allowed Hitler to step up Germany's secret rearmament programme 
• Hitler then took concrete action to increase Germany's military capabilities towards achieving his expansionist aims

]]> 2016-06-21 17:29:37 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115172182 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115173044 2016-06-21 17:42:22 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115173044 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115173098 Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
-Adolf Hitler ]]> 2016-06-21 17:43:04 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115173098 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115173408 "Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
-Adolf Hitler ]]> 2016-06-21 17:47:41 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115173408 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115174009 2016-06-21 17:55:10 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115174009 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115174655 Aftermath of Polish Invasion

• Poland was divided between Germany and the Soviet Union. Slovakia gained back those territories taken by Poland in autumn 1938
•  65,000 Polish troops were killed in the fighting, with 420,000 others being captured by the Germans and 240,000 more by the Soviets (for a total of 660,000 prisoners)
• Led Britain and France to declare war on Germany 
•  Civilian losses of Polish population amounted to about 150,000–200,000

]]> 2016-06-21 18:03:08 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115174655 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115175813 Hitler resumed conscription and rearmament in Germany
Hitler wanted to restore Germany's pride and strength after the humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles and therefore planned a massive rearmament programme to build up Germany's defenses

• The League did not manage to disarm Germany to prevent another world war and to establish peace
• Germany now had the respective manpower and arsenal of weapons to start another war
• By March 1935, Germany possessed a 2,500 plane Luftwaffe and a 300,000 strong army
• The build up of Germany's military capabilities and machinery would later enable Hitler to put his expansionist plans into action

]]> 2016-06-21 18:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115175813 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115175959 Treaty Of Versailles signed

• Germany was to pay repercussions for the World War I she apparently started
• Germany had restrictions on their army and firearms

]]> 2016-06-21 18:19:38 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115175959 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115176438 Hitler militarized the Rhineland
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. Hitler ordered German troops to cross the Hohenzollern Bridge and militarize the Rhineland]]> 2016-06-21 18:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115176438 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115176501 Nazi Germany entered the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Nationalists
Hitler sent soldiers, equipment and warplanes to support the Spanish Nationalist forces

• Hitler's involvement in Spain was designed in part to divert British and French attention from his plans for expansion into the Eastern Europe
• Gave him opportunity to test his army and air force while fight against alledged communists
• The war provided combat experience with the latest technology for the German military
• Posed the risk of escalating into a world war for which Hitler was not ready
• Lack of intervention from League of Nations strengthened Hitler's view that Britain and France were weak, which in turn made him even more aggressive

]]> 2016-06-21 18:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115176501 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115176572 Italy joined Anti-Comintern Pact, forming the Axis Powers with Nazi Germany and Japan
The Anti-Comintern Pact was an anti-communist pact concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan

• The treaty stated that the three countries would respect each other's "leadership" in their respective spheres of influence and would assist each other if attacked by an outside party
• The purpose of the Pact, directed against an unnamed power presumed to be the United States, was to deter that power from supporting Britain, thereby not only strengthening Germany's and Italy's cause in the North African Campaign and the Meditteranian theatre, but also weakening British colonies in South-East Asia in advance of a Japanese invasion

]]> 2016-06-21 18:29:20 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115176572 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115176682 Anschluss between Nazi Germany and Austria achieved
German unified with Austria 

• Was a violation of the Treaty of Versailles, but France and Britain again, did nothing
• Their lack of will emboldened him toward further aggression
• Austria's resources of gold and iron ore were now at Hitler's disposal, as were its army and weapons
• Germany achieved Anschluss without any conflict

]]> 2016-06-21 18:31:01 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115176682 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115176745 Nazi Germany gained control of the Sudetenland ]]> 2016-06-21 18:31:51 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115176745 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115176901 Munich Agreement signed
 A settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined]]> 2016-06-21 18:33:48 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115176901 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115176978 Nazi Germany took over the rest of Czechoslovakia

• The incorporation of the Sudetenland into Germany left the rest of Czechoslovakia weak, and it became powerless to resist subsequent occupation
• Neither the Czechs nor the Allies fought back
• British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain realised Hitler could not be trusted
• Brittain and France warned Hitler accordingly that they would go to war with Germany if he invaded Poland

]]> 2016-06-21 18:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115176978 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115177411 A treaty to end one war, only to lead to another more terrible war.]]> 2016-06-21 18:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115177411 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115177687 2016-06-21 18:44:15 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115177687 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115228345

Re-militarization changed the balance of power in Europe from France towards Germany

Made it possible for Germany to pursue a policy of aggression in Eastern Europe that the demilitarized status of the Rhineland had blocked until then

Increased Hitler's confidence and popularity amongst the German people

League of Nations condemned Hitler's actions, but did nothing else

]]> 2016-06-22 11:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115228345 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115228970 Played a major role in contributing towards the outbreak of World War II in Europe
Establish a Greater Germany

• By acquiring lands such as Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, and uniting all ethnic Germans living in these countries with those in Germany

Create Lebenstarum (living space)

• To facilitate further German expansion, large areas in Eastern Europe, such as Soviet Union and Poland, must be conquered. 

Establish the superior Aryan race

• This would be done by rebuilding Germany's once-proud armed forces, and exterminating 'inferior races'. 

]]> 2016-06-22 11:24:42 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115228970 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115233774 2016-06-22 12:36:10 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115233774 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115233877 2016-06-22 12:37:45 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115233877 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115234005 2016-06-22 12:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115234005 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115235721 "Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging son-of-a-%@&%# Hitler- just like I'd shoot a snake."
American  General George S. Patton, in a speech delivered to his troops before embarking for Operation Overload (D-Day).]]> 2016-06-22 12:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115235721 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115236539 "I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms."
-Adolf Hitler]]> 2016-06-22 13:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115236539 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115236967 "Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist."
-Adolf Hitler ]]> 2016-06-22 13:12:37 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115236967 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115237116 "It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will recede and which, God willing, I will make good."
-Adolf Hitler, delivered during a speech covering the Sudetenland, 1938]]> 2016-06-22 13:14:33 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115237116 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115247059

In keeping with the policy of appeasement, to avoisd waging war in Europe, the leaders in Britain and France, along with Hitler and Mussolini, signed the Munich Agreement

Having gained control of the Sudetenland without having to fight, Hitler began to set his sights even further on occupying the whole of Czechoslovakia

]]> 2016-06-22 15:08:09 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115247059 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115247571 2016-06-22 15:15:46 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115247571 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115248780 "Greater Germany - the dream of our fathers and grandfathers - is finally created."
-German Armaments Magnate Gustav Krupp von Bohlen]]> 2016-06-22 15:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115248780 t0129802f https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115250579 2016-06-22 15:51:32 UTC https://padlet.com/t0129802f/v05on83c3vov/wish/115250579