Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Final Steps to War, 1939
- Invasion of Czechoslovakia, March 1939
- 93% of the British public expected
further action form Hitler
- Was not self-determination
but an invasion
- Britain and France warned Hitler
against invading Poland
- Appeasement ended
- Nazi-soviet Pact, August 1939
- Stalin
- Joined and left the League after Abyssinia
- Saw British and French inaction over
Germany's rearmament as weak
- Stalin was not consulted over
the Munich Agreement
- Britain sent three generals for negotiations
but Germany sent Ribbentrop
- Agreements
- Germany and USSR would not attack each other
- Poland would be split between them
- Stalin already had plans to take the Baltic states
- Invasion of Poland, September 1939
- Germany invaded on the 1st
- USSR invaded on the 17th
- Britain and France declared war on the 2nd
- Hitler did not expect this, it was too soon