Causes of WWII: video worksheets, differentiated.

Please ensure you can access the video before you get this resource. This documentary is structured to allow students to evaluate various factors in the build-up to WW2, and explicitly asks if any was necessary factor, or would WW2 have happened without it? Including: the early Nazi Party – the SS and the SA, the Beer Hall Putsch and Mein Kampf, racial superiority Lebensraum; Rearmament, militarisation of the Rhineland, the Hossbach Memorandum, alliance with Mussolini, agitation in Austria, Anschluss, Sudetenland occupation, the Munich Agreement, invasions of Czechoslovakia; Chamberlain’s pact with Poland; Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact; Poland invaded. Appeasement evaluated: evidence from Chamberlain, Churchill, and Benes. Was the Treaty of Versailles too harsh? British forces overstretched in its Empire, unready for WW2. US isolationism.

Find the film by searching YouTube’s Tangwaap channel for “How far was Hitler responsible for causing the Second World War?”.

16 questions for the 20-min film. Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Links to TWO sources of the film on all sheets: please make sure you can access the film before downloading.