Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Appeasement, the
War, and the debate
- Re-occupation of the
Rhineland 1936
- ToV started the Rhineland
should be demilitarised
- Security for France
- Sent troops to reclaim the region
- Br and Fr did nothing
to stop this
- Munch Settlement 1938
- Under ToV the Sudetenland was made
part of Czechoslovakia
- Idea of self-determination for the 3
million Sudeten-Germans
- Agreement gave Germany the Sudetenland
- Stopped immediate
threat of war
- Germany went against the agreement also occupied
Bohemia and Moravia, destroying Czechoslovakia
- Poland 1939
- Br promised to protect Poland in the
event of German invasion
- Was actually a more
reasonable demand
- Keeping with this, Br declared war on Germany 6 months later
- Went against the Munich Agreement
- The Soviet Union
- The Guilty Men
- Condemnation of Br's leaders for
undermining Soviet-British relations
- Could have been a
counter-weight to the
growth of Germany
- Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939
- Agreement that pledging
the USSR and Gr would
stay at peace for 10 years
- Would devided Poland between them
- Hitler betrayed the
agreement on June
1941 with Operation
Barbarossa
- Debate
- 1939 onwards, Appeasement was considered terrible
- Failed to stop the expansion of Nazi Germany
- War was too
horrible to
contemplate
- Avoidance was neccessary
- Public opinion
- Anti-war feelings
- Genuine support for rearmament
- Explains why government
was so ill prepared for war
- Economic depression
- Money for armaments not of
vital importance at the time
- Trust in LoN
- Had in some
successes
- Military position
in the 1930's
- Navy overstretched
- Impossible to resist
Germany by armed force
- Could not help Poland
- Could not defend the own interests
and stop Gr at the same time
- Failure in defending their interests in
Abyssinia proves this
- Sympathy for Germany
- Belief even the Rhineland, Sudetenland and
Austria incidents were in keeping with self
determination
- Fr refusal to budge
on reparations
- Fear of Communism
- Afraid of the spread of Communism into Europe
- Strong anti-communist Germany
could be a barrier to the spread of
communism