The Road to World War II

	How did Hitler challenge and exploit the Treaty of Versailles in the period 1933 to March 1938?
	Why did appeasement fail to prevent the outbreak of war in 1939?

	Hitler’s aims and expansionist policies; the Saar; Rhineland 1936; Austria 1938.
	Appeasement and Chamberlain; Hitler, Aryan supremacy and lebensraum; Sudetenland and Munich Agreement; Czechoslovakia, March 1939; growing tensions, including role of USSR; Nazi-Soviet Pact; Poland and outbreak of war.

Links:

Peace to War 1919-39: clear overview aimed specifically at the old AQA GCSE.

- Giles Hill's podcast on German foreign policy

- Giles Hill's podcast on Appeasement

- BBC debate-podcast on what caused the war

A good set of notes, suitable for top-GCSE/A-level, which address long- and short-term causes and give a brief historiography.

A site about 1938 - including many radio broadcasts

	FIVE new words
	Hitler’s THREE aims in his Foreign Policy.
	SIX steps to war.
	SEVEN key dates in the Sudetenland crisis.
	EIGHT views of appeasement.
	NINETEEN reasons Chamberlain appeased Hitler [A–S].
	THREE reasons British policy towards Hitler changed, 1938–1939.
	FOUR reasons Anglo-Soviet talks failed [SCAB].
	FOUR reasons Russia allied itself to Germany in 1939 [THUG]