Question

My sister needs help:
What were the main terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
2. What were the reasons in which the German people were upset with the Treaty of Versailles’ terms?
3. Once Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, what did he do with the German army?
4. How did the other foreign governments respond to Hitler’s actions at first?
5. In 1936 what did Germany’s army do that neither France nor Britain tried to stop?
6. Hitler created 2 alliances with other countries. What were these alliances and who were they with?

Answer 1

7. What was the first country, Hitler took over and how did he
8. What was the next area Hitler demanded control of?
9. What was the Munich Agreement and was it successful? Why or why not?
10. Define Appeasement. What were some of the ways that countries tried to appease Germany. How did their appeasement lead to German regaining its power in Europe?
11. How did the Czech government feel that the Munich Agreement was not fair to them?
12. What was the purpose of the League of Nations and how did they plan to handle issues.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Ready? Here we go:

1) Versailles essentially blasted the Germans back to the Stone Age. It blamed them for WW1 and made them pay the bill for everything with huge reparation demands, creating the conditions that damaged their economy and bred resentment.

2) Their economy would suffer under the Treaty's terms. The reichsmark became virtually worthless and there are stories of people with wheelbarrows filled with the worthless money trying to use it to buy a loaf of bread. It also reduced Germany's army and restricted it in a number of other ways. The Treaty really went out of its way to punish Germany.

3) He expanded it, defying the Treaty. Surprisingly, no one really did anything about it.

4) Mostly appeasement -- no one wanted another world war after having lived through the horror of the first. So they essentially backed down and let Hitler do what he wanted, naively believing that he would actually "stop" once satisfied.

5) They occupied the Rhineland which was given over to France to administrate as part of the Treaty of Versailles.

6) If this refers to the Tripartite Pact, it was between Nazi Germany, Italy, and Imperial Japan. Mostly, it was an alliance that established the Axis in order to promote a "new order" through cooperation and assistance.

7) I'd say it was the Anschluss, or the annexation of Austria. After that came Czechoslovakia, and then the invasion of Poland which finally tipped the world into WW2.

8) Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland -- the areas along its border where there were a lot of German citizens. But after gobbling up the Sudetenland, Hitler bullied Czechoslovakia's leader into accepting a full occupation of the rest of the country. And no one did anything to stop it.

9) It was the agreement signed by the UK and France to let Hitler have the Sudetenland. Czechoslovakia was not invited to the conference and essentially had the fate of this part of itself decided without its participation. It was like having some stranger come into your house and decide that they would move into part of it -- and there was nothing you could do about it because the rest of the neighborhood didn't want to mess with this stranger. Neville Chamberlain, the UK's prime minister and the guy that wanted a peaceful end to Hitler's demands, foolishly believed it would bring "peace in our time".

10) Appeasement was basically letting another party get what they want in order to avoid conflict. That was the approach most nations took to Hitler's demands leading up to 1939. No one wanted another bloody war like WW1, so they thought that by playing nice with Nazi Germany and ignoring thing like its efforts at re-armament and territorial expansion, it would defuse the situation. They were wrong.

11) They weren't invited to the party, yet had the fate of part of their own country decided for them by someone else. It's like how I described it for #9.

12) The League was like the beta version for the United Nations. Same concept, but incredibly ineffective at stopping anything that came up. The idea was to get nations together and talk things out. But there was little enforcement of any of what they said. Great idea, poor execution.

Answer 4

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