Unit 3

• Hurlers aims were …

  unite all German speaking people

  get lebensraum for the German

  rid of tov
• Leader of nazi party in 1920s
• leaves League of Nations in 1933
• signs non agression pact in 1934 claims to not take back “polish corridor”
• he wanted Anschluss in 1934 did not get it was forbidden in tov , was a major setback
• 1935 anglo German naval agreement , signed so there navy was 35% of britains , concernEd France and Italy , allowed to break tov
• hitler reintroduced conscription in 1934-45 , first step of war , we didn’t respond
• 1935 his army had trebled in size and by 1933 he ordered the air ministry to build 1000 war planes
• Remilitarisation of the Rhineland -1936 did it as he felt encircled and vulnerable because of francot - soviet pact -35
• Sent 22,000 troops to remilitarise rhineland
• Took over Austria in 1938 and anyone against it was sent to camps (80,000)
• Munich conference , czechslovakia crisis - 1938 TOV led 2 mill to move to student land , had lots of raw materials hitler and chamberlain agreed to no war
• Germany took over Poland in september 1939 , Britain declared war on germany on 3rd September 1939
• Hitler formed an alliance with enemy communist Russia
• Appeasement = policy used by Britain and France to prevent war , but is now viewed as “giving into war”
• For appeasement -

  economy could recover from GD

  avoid war = negotiation

  communism = bigger threat than hitler

  felt like they were being listened to
• Against appeasement-

  britain look weak

  hitler = confident

  demand and get it

  become stronger economically and politically
• Preparation for war

  created plan for 3 years

  encouraged to plant veggies

  july 1939 - ministry of supply to oversea preprations
• Air wardens service -1937
• by 1939 1.5 million people volunteens of the air wardens service
• The air wardens service would enforce black outs, sound sires , do first aid and check on people in shelters
• RADAR helped detect aircraft ,protect RSF planes the luftwaffe had more planes but radar helped win the Battle of Britain - 1940which was fought in air
• Anti -aircraft guns developed in 1930 fired rapidly at 120 rounds per minute
• The two types of air raid shelters

  Anderson and Morrison
• Anderson shelters were half buried in the ground and were for free to people who earned less than £5 a week 2 mill family’s were given one
• Morrison shelters were introduced in march 1941 for those without gardens , made of heavy steel under tables
• On September 21 1940 the London Underground was used an air raid shelter

  177,000 people slept on the platforms on the busiest night in 1940
• Barrrage balloons were out high up to stop enemy attacking and to make it harder to fire accurately
• August 1940 there were 2368 Barrage balloons
• Conscription was introduced in 1939 all single men aged 20-22
• September 1939 the national services act made conscription compulsory for all men aged 18 to 41 to fight
• Reserved occupation is when people with important jobs could stay home during the war op5 million men of conscription age were allowed to stay home