WWII. Short Term Causes Project.

For this project students worked in small groups. Each group focused on one of the short term causes of the war. For each short term cause the groups had to create two or three newspaper articles from the perspective of the main countries involved.

German Rearmament.

The German re-armament (Aufrüstung) was a massive effort led by the NSDAP in the early 1930s in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. During its struggle for power the National Socialist party promised to recover Germany's lost national pride. It proposed military rearmament claiming that the Treaty of Versailles and the acquiescence of the Weimar Republic were an embarrassment for all Germans.

Disclosures of Nazi re-armament triggered the Re-armament policy in the United Kingdom, which escalated after Adolf Hitler withdrew Germany from the League of Nations and the Geneva Disarmament Conference in 1933.
The French & Rearmament
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The German & Rearmament
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 The Remilitarisation of the Rhineland.

On March 7th 1936 a small force of German troops marched across the Rhine bridges into the demilitarised areas of Germany towards Aachen, Trier and Saarbruecken. Once again neither the French nor British made any move to counter the flagrant breach of the Locarno Pact of 1925, which had been signed willingly by Germany and was supposed to keep these areas west of the Rhine free from German military units. The lack of French reaction was in spite of the fact that the small German force was vastly outnumbered by the French army near the border.
Germany & the Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
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France & the Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
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The Munich Agreement.

(Sept. 30, 1938)The Munich Agreement was the settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia. After his success in absorbing Austria into Germany proper in March 1938, Adolf Hitler looked covetously at Czechoslovakia, where about 3,000,000 people in the Sudeten area were of German origin. It became known in May 1938 that Hitler and his generals were drawing up a plan for the occupation of Czechoslovakia. The Czechoslovaks were relying on military assistance from France, with which they had an alliance. The Soviet Union also had a treaty with Czechoslovakia, and it indicated willingness to cooperate with France and Great Britain if they decided to come to Czechoslovakia’s defense, but the Soviet Union and its potential services were ignored throughout the crisis.
The Czech & the Munich Agreement
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The British & the Munich Agreement
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The Nazi-Soviet Pact

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The British & the Nazi-Soviet Pact
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The Soviet & the Nazi-Soviet Pact
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The German & the Nazi-Soviet Pact
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