Hitler’s Polish Gamble The Treaty of Versailles created Poland but this cut Germany into 2 pieces.

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Hitler’s Polish Gamble

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Hitler’s Polish Gamble

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The Treaty of Versailles created Poland but this cut

Germany into 2 pieces

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Poland got access to the sea through the

port of Danzig.

This was administered by The League of Nations.

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Hitler claimed that Germans in

Poland were being unfairly

treated

Step 4: The invasion of Poland

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Could Hitler capture Poland without fighting, as he did with Austria and Czechoslovakia?

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Great Britain

changes her

position

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If Germany invades

Poland, Great Britain will

declare war on the Third

Reich.

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Hitler’s Gamble: Capture Poland

before France and GB are able to mobilize their

troops

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On August 23,1939 the world is shocked to learn that Stalin and Hitler had signed a non-aggression

pact. This meant if Germany invades Poland the USSR does nothing!

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Hitler and Stalin both want to regain

territories lost after WWI in the Treaty of

Versailles.

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On September 1 1939 Hitler

invades Poland.

WWII has begun.

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