1. What can you infer? (What
can you see)
1933 Germany left the League of Nations.
3. Why was it created?
1934 Attempted Nazi coup in Austria crushed.
Poland and Germany sign alliance.
1935
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you?
Germany broke the military clauses of the Treaty
of Versailles
1936 German troops reoccupied the Rhineland.
Rome-Berlin Axis signed
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1938 Anschluss with Austria.
Sudetenland handed to Germany as a result of the Munich
conference.
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from?
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evidence?
1939 Rest of the Czech lands occupied by the Germans.
Germany invaded Poland.
WWII began
Source Attribution:
Evidence # 1—timeline of Hitler’s
foreign policy—from GCSE Modern History (textbook)
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can you see)
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you?
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from?
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evidence?
Source Attribution:
Evidence # 2a—Active History (Hitler Stimulation)
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can you see)
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you?
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from?
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evidence?
Source Attribution:
Evidence # 2b 2b http://www.bbc.co.uk/
learningzone/clips/2455.flv
BBC Learning Zone
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can you see)
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you?
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from?
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evidence?
3. Why was it created?
‘It was necessary for us
[the Nazi party] to dig
ourselves into the minds of
the people as the enemies
of the peace treaties so
that the people will give us
their confidence’.
Source Attribution:
Evidence # 3— Hitler’s use of the
Treaty of Versailles. Quote from
Mein Kamp, 1924
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1. What can you infer? (What
can you see)
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you?
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from?
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Source Attribution:
Evidence # 4a—British Movietone
News, 1935
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can you see)
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you?
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from?
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evidence?
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‘It is understood that there are at least 125
fighting aircraft in existence or being
made…. secret sources show that an order
has been given by the German Government
to the Dornier works for 36 twin-engine night
bombers. The cost of these orders is to be
disguised under funds for employment of the
unemployed. There are numerous indications
in the last two months of increased activity
in the German armaments industry’
Source Attribution:
Evidence # 4b—‘British cabinet paper, 16th May 1933.
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can you see)
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you?
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Source Attribution:
Evidence # 4c—Anglo German Navel agreement—
signed by Neville Chamberlain (reference made in
the Munich agreement of 1938).
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can you see)
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you?
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Source Attribution:
Evidence # 4d—Hitler
surveys a massive
Nazi rally, 1935. Taken from the Nazi
Party Newspaper.
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you?
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Source Attribution:
Evidence # 4d—Active History
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can you see)
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you?
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from?
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3. Why was it created?
‘The Germans
are, after all,
only going into
their own back
garden’.
Source Attribution:
Evidence # 5a—A comment made by Lord Lo-
thian in 1936 about the remilitarisation of
the Rhineland. He was a senior advisor to
the British government.
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4. Is it accurate?
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can you see)
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you?
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from?
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Source Attribution:
Evidence # 5b—
The Goose Step. British cartoon on the
Rhineland, 18th March 1936. The Goose
Step is a method of marching used by the
Nazi army.
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can you see)
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you?
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from?
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evidence?
‘Hitler had chosen his moment carefully.
Britain and France were more concerned
about Mussolini’s invasion of Abyssinia. The
French government was divided and not
prepared to act without the support of Britain. Britain felt that Hitler was doing nothing
wrong. The Treaty of Versailles was unjust and
therefore Hitler was right to change it.
Germany was only moving troops into its own
territory. It was not like Mussolini, who had
invaded another country. No one wanted war
and people took far more notice of Hitler’s
promises. At the end of March, Hitler held a
vote in Germany on his policies: 99 per cent
of those who voted were in favour of them’.
Source Attribution:
Evidence # 5c—from the AQA
‘International Relations’ textbook,
2009
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you?
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from?
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evidence?
Source Attribution:
Evidence 5e—Head2Head ‘Why did
you remilitarise the Rhineland in
1936’?
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can you see)
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you?
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from?
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Source Attribution:
Evidence #6a. YouTube clip ‘Hitler
takes Austria’.
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can you see)
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you?
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Source Attribution:
Evidence #6b. Austria 12 March
1938, cheering crowds great the arrival of the German army.
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can you see)
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you?
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‘I left this town years ago with
precisely the same beliefs as I
have today. Imagine how deeply
I feel now that I have brought
my beliefs to fulfilment. Providence gave me a mission to restore my dear homeland to the
German Reich. I believed in that
mission, I have lived and fought
for it, and I for it, and I believed
I have now fulfilled it’.
Source Attribution:
Evidence # 6c. Hitler speech in
1938.
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Source Attribution:
Evidence # 6d. Spineless leaders of
democracy. David Low, published in
the Evening Standard, July 1936.
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can you see)
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you?
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Source Attribution:
Evidence #7a. YouTube clip
‘Chamberlain - peace in our time’
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you?
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Evidence # 7c. The Munich
Conference, 1938. British Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain is on
the left of the picture, Hitler in the
centre; Mussolini second from the
right.
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Evidence #7d. Results of the Public
opinion polls in Britain, 1938
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you?
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Evidence #7e. ‘Our New defence’. A
British Cartoon, October 1938.
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you?
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Evidence #7f. Price of Appeasement,
Prague March 1939
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Evidence #8a. The Pianist
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Evidence #8b. ‘Rendezvous’ Below is a
David Low cartoon from September 1939
satirising the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
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can you see)
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you?
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‘The 48 hours after the march into
the Rhineland were the most
nerve—racking of my life. If the
French had then marched into the
Rhineland, we would have to
withdraw with our tails between our
legs, for our military resources would
have been wholly inadequate for
even a moderate resistance’.
Source Attribution:
Evidence # 5c—from the AQA
‘International Relations’ textbook,
2009
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