EVENTS IN EUROPE LEADING TO WORLD WAR II

 

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1914-1918: World War I leaves Europe in ruins.

1919: _________  ________ leaves Germany powerless. Democracy is attempted in Germany under the ___________  _________. Kaiser Wilhelm flees to Holland. 

1920: ADOLPH HITLER forms N.S.D.A.P. or _________  __________ ___________  _____________  ____________. Its leader forms the political ____________ of NATIONAL SOCIALISM or ________________. 


1921-33: Severe economic ____________ grips Europe. __________________ devalues German Mark. 


1923: Hitler is jailed for treason. He writes _____________   _______________ (My Struggle) while in Landsberg Prison. 

1932: Nazis make a strong showing in Parliamentary elections. They gain a near majority in the German _________________. Nazis gain popularity among people. 

1933: Hitler appointed ______________ by the aging President __________  ___________. The ________________  ________ is passed by the Reichstag making him total ruler of Germany (rule by decree). 

1934: Rearmament begins against restrictions of the Versailles Treaty. 
1936: Hitler reoccupies the ___________________ without opposition .
1936-1937: __________________ is tested in _____________ CIVIL WAR. 
GEN. FRANCISCO _______________ becomes  dictator of Spain. 
1938: ____________ is annexed by Germany. All opposition is silenced, including the assassination of the prime minister.

The ___________   ________________ gives Hitler the __________________.
__________________________ declares "We have peace in our time." Czechoslovakia falls to Germany. 
1939: Invasion of  _______________ by Germany & USSR.


Word Bank

Versailles Treaty
Weimar Republic
National Socialist German Worker's Party
Ideology
Nazism
Depression
Hyperinflation
Mein Kampf 
Reichstag
Chancellor
Von Hindenburg
Enabling Act
Rhineland
Blitzkrieg
Spanish
Franco
Fascist
Austria
Munich Conference
Sudetenland
Chamberlain
Poland


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