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AQA: Britain and
Appeasement
1919-1940 (4)
- Chamberlain
- Resignation
- 1940
- Occupation of Czechoslovakia
- Chamberlain gave a
military guarantee
to Poland
- 1939
- No reason to
- None were German
- Czechs did not
want Germany
to invade
- Pact of Steel
- Italy and Germany
- Mussolini and
Hitler thought
Britain wouldn't
stand up to Hitler
- Sudetenland/Munich Crisis
- Chamberlain
met with Hitler at
Berchtesgaden
- Didn't consult Cz,
promised to give
Hitler areas where
50% spoke German
- Convinced
France and
finally Cz
- Met back with
Hitler at Bad
Godesburg
- Hitler demanded
all of the
Sudetenland
- Almost a war
- Mussolini suggested
Munich Agreement
- 1938
- Munich Agreement
- France and Britain
agree to give Hitler
Sudetenland
- Chamberlain gets
Hitler to sign paper
saying he will not go
to war with Britain
- "Peace in our time"
- Alternatives to appeasement
- Duff Cooper
- Openly advocated war
- Thought it was the
only way to stop the
fascist dictators
- Churchill
- Grand Alliance
- USSR
- Communist
- Too involved
with their own
revolution
- Didn't trust them
- USA
- Isolationist
- Labour Party
- Use LoN to keep
the peace
- Stop aggressive
powers using
sanctions
- Occupation of Poland
- Anschluss
- 1938
- Wanted all German
speaking countries
to be united
- Shared borders
with Cz
- Schuschnigg
visited Hitler at his
summer retreat at
Berchtesgaden
- Hitler made
Austrian Nazi
Seyss-Inquart
member of gov
- Called for him to
cause trouble in
Austria to justify
German invasion
- Schuschnigg announced
referendum but canceled
it and resigned after Hitler
demanded it stopped