Mapping The Situation in Europe in the 1930s
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General Instructions
Read the text on the next page.
Choose one of the places mentioned in the text that you would like to research.
Or, based on early discussions and overview videos of the situation in Europe, choose a place not mentioned in the text.
Claim that place by marking the place you want to research on an empty corresponding slide, and also by marking your name (or names if working in partners) on that same slide. Copy more empty slides as needed.
Task Instructions:
Learning Goal, to help Characterize the situation in Europe before WW2 by situating events and understanding key locations on the map in the 1930s and 40s.
For each place you chose to research:
Locate the place on the map. And, explain your location choice if necessary.
Describe the location and its general significance.
Describe and explain its specific significance as to what happened there or how it was involved in the lead up to World War Two.
The Situation in Europe in the 1930s
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In the 1932 election in Germany, the Nazi party won the most seats, but not a majority in the parliament. Adolf Hitler was offered the chancellorship, and following a fire at the parliament in early 1933 that was blamed on the communists, Germany declared emergency powers and the Nazis quickly consolidated their power. They put their political enemies in concentration camps and began their persecution of Jewish people in Germany.
Adolf Hitler's foreign policy was based on reversing the Versailles treaty, uniting German-speaking peoples in one country, and in finding living space for Germans in Eastern Europe. In defiance of the treaty, Germany began to expand its military. In 1936, the Germans reoccupied the Rhineland, between France and Germany which had been demilitarized under the Versailles treaty. Despite these violations of the treaty, neither France nor Britain did anything to stop Hitler.
Germany and Italy became emboldened. Germany intervened in the Spanish Civil War by providing air forces to help the fascist government of General Franco. Italy, under Benito Mussolini, wanted to expand its empire and attacked Ethiopia. The governments of France and Great Britain did little to stop them. France and Britain had little appetite for war in the 1930s. For both countries, the horrors of the First World War were still too painful for many to consider stepping in against Germany or Italy at this time.
Hitler, who was born in Austria, dreamed of uniting Germany and Austria together as one country. The unification of Austria and Germany was called the Anschluss. When the Germans entered Austria, they immediately began their persecution of the Jewish people in that country. Hitler's next target was Czechoslovakia. He wanted to bring in the German-speaking people of the Sudetenland (the area bordering Germany) into his new empire. The British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain travelled to Germany to negotiate a settlement. The Munich Agreement of 1938 would allow the Germans to annex the German-speaking parts of Czechoslovakia. In return, Hitler promised not to attack the rest of Czechoslovakia. A few months later in 1939 Hitler broke his promise and took over the remaining parts of the country. The British and French then proclaimed that if Germany would invade Poland that would mean war with France and Great Britain.
During this time, Germany and the Soviet Union had signed a nonaggression treaty that had a secret provision to split up Poland between them in the event of War. The Germans wanted to attack Poland so they could have the return of the city of Danzig that had been lost to them by the Versailles treaty, along with the so-called Polish corridor between East Prussia and the rest of Germany. Hitler also envisioned that Poland would eventually become an area of colonization for Germans. On September 1, 1939, Germany involved Poland. Great Britain and France declared war on September the 3rd. Canada would declare war for the first time on September 10, 1939.
Overview text by Matt Russell.
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Describe the location in general:
And, explain your location choice if necessary:
Describe and explain its specific significance as to what happened there or how it was involved in the lead up to the Second World War.
Your Name:
Link to location on Cartograf or Google Maps if appropriate:
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Location Name
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Describe the location in general:
And, explain your location choice if necessary:
Describe and explain its specific significance as to what happened there or how it was involved in the lead up to the Second World War.
Your Name:
Link to location on Cartograf or Google Maps if appropriate:
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Location Name
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Describe the location in general:
And, explain your location choice if necessary:
Describe and explain its specific significance as to what happened there or how it was involved in the lead up to the Second World War.
Your Name:
Link to location on Cartograf or Google Maps if appropriate:
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Location Name
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Describe the location in general:
And, explain your location choice if necessary:
Describe and explain its specific significance as to what happened there or how it was involved in the lead up to the Second World War.
Your Name:
Link to location on Cartograf or Google Maps if appropriate:
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Location Name
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Describe the location in general:
And, explain your location choice if necessary:
Describe and explain its specific significance as to what happened there or how it was involved in the lead up to the Second World War.
Your Name:
Link to location on Cartograf or Google Maps if appropriate:
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Location Name
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Describe the location in general:
And, explain your location choice if necessary:
Describe and explain its specific significance as to what happened there or how it was involved in the lead up to the Second World War.
Your Name:
Link to location on Cartograf or Google Maps if appropriate:
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Location Name
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Describe the location in general:
And, explain your location choice if necessary:
Describe and explain its specific significance as to what happened there or how it was involved in the lead up to the Second World War.
Your Name:
Link to location on Cartograf or Google Maps if appropriate:
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Location Name
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And, explain your location choice if necessary:
Describe and explain its specific significance as to what happened there or how it was involved in the lead up to the Second World War.
Your Name:
Link to location on Cartograf or Google Maps if appropriate:
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And, explain your location choice if necessary:
Describe and explain its specific significance as to what happened there or how it was involved in the lead up to the Second World War.
Your Name:
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Describe and explain its specific significance as to what happened there or how it was involved in the lead up to the Second World War.
Your Name:
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Describe and explain its specific significance as to what happened there or how it was involved in the lead up to the Second World War.
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Location Name
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Describe the location in general:
And, explain your location choice if necessary:
Describe and explain its specific significance as to what happened there or how it was involved in the lead up to the Second World War.
Your Name:
Link to location on Cartograf or Google Maps if appropriate: