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• 1 Diplomacy and battle

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• When was war declared on Germany by the French and English?

  On September 3rd,  1939

• Why did they declare war on Germany?

  31-8-1939. Germain radio news mentioned that Polish soldiers had killed a number of Germans and that they had destoyed the broadcasting station. A few hours later the German army invaded Poland. Hilter blamed Poland and he was lying.

• Why was Hitler lying?

  The night before, some S members had put on Polish uniorms and had let some concentration camp prisoners near the radio station and murdered them with deadly injetions.

• What has Hitler written in Mein Kampf?

  That he would have Germany rule over Europe. He would found the Third Empire that would exist for t thousands of years'. In a 'war of races'he would destroy the Soviet Union and conquer lebensraum for the Germanic race that would reach behind the Urals.

• What did he do after he took power in 1933 and in 1936?

  H immediately started largescale re-rearmament. Tewo years later, he started building up a fleet and air force and introduced general conscription. In 1936, he sent troops to the Ruhr area.

• All of this was against the Treaty of Versailles but France and Great Britain did nothing, why?

  - French did not dare to act on their own
  - British were too busy with their colonialemire and the economic crisis
  - They found 'Versailles' too harsh and many were satisfied with Hitler.
  - They found fine that Hitler fought communism

• What did Hitler do in 1936?

  He made an alliance with Mussolini: the RomeBerlin axis. Hitler also became an ally of Japan.

• What did Hitler mean by heim ins reich? How did he do so?

  - He wanted to unite all Germans in a German empire.
  - He blackmailed Austria in 1938, made an Austrian nazi the government leader and Austria became German leader.
  (the west did nothing)

• Hitler was encouraged by the West doing nothing, so what happened with Sudetenland?

  - demanded Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia (which was the only democracy in Central Europe and an ally of France)
  -France and Britain seemd to be willing to defend the country
  - In September 1938 they gave in (it looked like diplomacy had won)

• How did it became clear that appeasement didn't work?

  A few months later, nai Germany occupied the rest of Czechia and Slovakia became a German vassal state.