Zusammenfassung der Ressource
International Peace
- Hitler's Aims
- Abolish the treaty of Versailles
- Lebensraum
- Defeat Communism
- Unify Germans
- Steps to War
- Saar Plebiscite
- Conscription and re-armament
- Rhineland
- Austria
- Munich
- Czechoslovakia
- Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
- Poland
- War
- 22,000 soldiers -->
only a bluff
- Appeasement
- Reasons
- Some Britons approved
of Hitler's policies
- Strong Germany
opposes
Communist Russi
- Europe not Britain's business
- Desire for peace
- Agreement that the
Treaty of Versailles
was unfair
- Opinions
- Opposed
- Winston Churchill
- David Low
- For
- Chaimberlain
- Daily Express
- Results
- Hitler Grew Strong
- Abandoned millions
to the Nazis
- Gave Britain time to rearm
- Gave Britain the
moral high ground
- Humiliated Britain
- Caused the war by
letting Hitler think he
could do what he
wanted
- Fine attempt to
prevent millions of
deaths
- Sudetenland
- Causes
- Sudeten
Nazis riot
in Sept.
1938
- Evidence of
Czech 'atrocities'
- Hitler threatens invasion
- Czech prime minister refuses
- Chaimberlain's actions
- Berechtesgarten, 15 sept
- Hand over Sudeten
- Bad Godesberg, 22 sept
- Hitler demands more
- 'quarrel in distant lands between
people of whom we know nothing
- Munich, 29 sept
- No Czechs
- Hand over all of Sudeten
- 'peace in our
time', 30th Sept
- Appeasement ends
- Hitler invades
Czechoslovakia 15th
March 1939
- £1322 million on
defence by
parliament, 25 april
- Mussolini
conquers
Albania, 13
april
- Britain declares war, 3
sept. 1939
- Anglo/Franco-Polish
defense pact, 30 march
- Nazi-Soviet Pact, 23 august
- Why did
Anglo-Russian talks
fail
- Suspicion
- Delay of Lord Halifax
- Results of pact
- Eastern European
nations as 'spheres of
influence'
- Poland divided
- Non-aggression
between
two
nations
- Reasons
- Hitler didn't want a second front, and
wanted to take out the western powers
first
- Stalin had just purged the army
and needed to rebuild before he
could withstand a German invasion