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| Watch and
note the video The Nazis: A warning from History Episode 3 The
Wrong War
This video is divided into two
sections, in this first section we examine Hitler's foreign policy upto
Austrian Crisis.
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| Online lesson
about the Rhineland crisis. On March 7th 1936 German
troops marched into the Rhineland. This was Hitler’s first illegal
act in foreign relations since coming to power in 1933 and it threw
the European allies, especially France and Britain, into confusion.
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Rhineland the 'Anschluss'. What can we learn about Hitler from the
crises over the Rhineland and Austria?
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McAleavy (64-67)
Complete questions on p.67 |
| Watch and
note the video The Nazis: A warning from History Episode 3 The
Wrong War
This video is divided into two
sections, in this second section we exam Hitler's foreign policy
after the Austrian Crisis.
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| Read and annotate 'Making
Friends with Hitler' an article by Professor Ian Kershaw, the
historical advisor of the Nazis: a warning from history
series.
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'Making Friends with
Hitler' by Ian Kershaw, published in the BBC History Magazine,
November 2004.
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| Munich and the destruction of
Czechoslovakia.
Background reading and activities 1 and 2 Mason
(39).
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McAleavy (68-71) Mason (38-9)
Optional online lesson about
appeasement:
Chamberlain's meeting with Hitler on Sept 15 1938. Both activities
involves you accessing the original source material stored in the
British Public Record Office. This is a particularly useful activity
for providing further evidence for your coursework activity.
For a view of how Hitler was
perceived by the English ruling elites around the time of Munich,
have a look at this article from Homes and Gardens, November 1938.
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This
article published in The
Guardian explains how Homes and Gardens attempted
to stop their 1938 article from being posted on the Internet. |
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