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
The Treaty of Versailles created Poland but this cut
Germany into 2 pieces
Poland got access to the sea through the
port of Danzig.
This was administered by The League of Nations.
Hitler claimed that Germans in
Poland were being unfairly
treated
Step 4: The invasion of Poland
Could Hitler capture Poland without fighting, as he did with Austria and Czechoslovakia?
Great Britain
changes her
position
If Germany invades
Poland, Great Britain will
declare war on the Third
Reich.
Hitler’s Gamble: Capture Poland
before France and GB are able to mobilize their
troops
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!
Hitler and Stalin both want to regain
territories lost after WWI in the Treaty of
Versailles.
On September 1 1939 Hitler
invades Poland.
WWII has begun.