Anschluss

Post World War I, Woodrow Wilson outlined 14 points in a speech to the American Congress in January 1918. Wilson's Fourteen Points became the foundation for a peace programme. On the back of the Fourteen Points, Germany and allies agreed to an armistice in November 1918. Failure to adhere to Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points possibly triggered World War II. The Treaty of Versailles indicated: 1) that Germany had to accept blame ‘for all the loss and damage’ of the war, 2) the Germans were allowed no…

The cause of the Second World War has been debated since the war ended. In my history class we were talking about the World Wars and I began to wonder what caused them. The Great War was inevitable and ended with the Allies winning and them issuing the Treaty of Versailles. Because this treaty caused much discontentment amongst the Germans, many come to the conclusion that the Treaty of Versailles was to blame for the Second World War, however the treaty was only the immediate cause and there…

Now Fuhrer of Germany, Hitler was quick to stop unemployment. He grew Germany's economy, bringing them out of the depression and putting millions to work. The people loved him, he had saved them from the depression that had torn Germany apart for years and united the German people under one goal, the eradication of Jews, Slavs, and the November Criminals who betrayed Germany when the Great War was over. The people were furious, they believed what their ‘Fuhrer’ had told them and wanted the…

without a backward glance as the National Socialist Party revolutionized Germany in just a few meteoric years with Hitler at its head. The dictatorship withdrew from the League of Nations in 1933, with rearmament beginning in 1934, and began its Anschluss of former German and Austrian-Hungarian territories (Lecture 13, October 29) producing a spectacular rise in Hitler’s popularity. Rearmament and dismantling the Treaty of Versailles carried Germany out of economic depression. Germany under the…

powerful throughout Europe. As Germany had left the League of Nations in 1933, so Mussolini left the League in 1937 after the League had imposed economic sanctions on Italy for the invasion of Abyssinia. In 1938, Germany occupied Austria in the Anschluss (forbidden by Versailles). Hitler did not forewarn Mussolini about what he was going to do and this upset Mussolinis belief that he was an equal partner. However, there was nothing Mussolini could do about the Nazi occupation of Austria and it…

In March of 1938, when things became particularly tense due to the Anschluss of Austria, Trude's father sent the family to stay with his mother in the relative safety of the countryside. The same happened again in October of that year when British prime minister Chamberlain went to see Hitler to discuss the cessation of the…

Hitler and Mussolini are known for their involvement in causing the Second World War as the Axis Alliance. But if we look into the alliance of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany we see two leaders who were really not the best of friends. In fact the two leaders had times when they were ready to go to war with one another. Their alliance was full of intentional secrets like Italy’s invasion of Albania which was a response to Germany’s unannounced takeover of Prague. Nevertheless, the two nations…

During the interwar period of 1919 to 1939, the European political arena witnessed a radical change in governmental organization. Historically this period has been defined by authoritarian Fascism and Nazism. In fact, Gino Germani a professor at the University of Buenos Aires hypothesizes that the structural tension inherent in all modern society between growing secularization and the necessity of maintaining a nationalist centred government was sufficient for the integration of causal factor in…

was when no action was taken to help the remilitarisation of Rhineland, this breaking another rule of the Treaty of Versailles. The third, allowed Hitler to use German bombers in the Spanish Civil War. The fourth, when no action was taken over Anschluss. The final appeasement which has been disputed as the ‘worst’ gave Hitler Sudetenland in 1938. Since signing of the final appeasesment there has been many dispute among…

newspaper (all would eventually be under his control) to spread complementary publicity about himself, and poor publicity about his enemies. - This would aid him in spreading his public image as the saviour that Germany had been waiting for. - Once the Anschluss had been reached with Austria, Hitler turned attention to Czechlosvakia, with the goal of reuniting german…