Against appeasement
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- Created on: 07-02-16 15:28
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- Against Appeasement
- Against appeasement
- Chamberlain should have learnt after the Anschluss
- Military advisers often over exaggerated german military strength
- Intellegence based on the bomber but german fighters didnt have the range or the power to inflict serious damage on london
- Chamberlain was self righteous and believed he had a point to prove after his brother became politically famouse
- Took the chance to "save Britain"
- He was ignorant of military matters and starved the army of resources
- Chamberlains visit put a stop to a plot to kill hitler the moment he tried to invade czechoslovakia
- Naive, Phipps wanred hitler strived for war and Mein Kampf showed his real plans
- Ignoring the rhineland invasion showed further weakness
- Naive, Phipps wanred hitler strived for war and Mein Kampf showed his real plans
- Had to ask Mussolini for help
- showed weakness, encouraged hitler to overrun poland
- Public opinion
- Appeasement ignored the czechs public and sacrificed them
- British opinion polls are often over exaggerated
- Sacrificing czechoslovakia meant sacrificing democratic principles anyway
- Hitler says he has no more territorial amibitions in europe, do you believe him? yes= 7%, no=93%
- Alternative policies
- Grand Aliance
- Championed by Churchill who had Hitler's respect
- Anglo- french invasion would have only been challenged by ten divisions in 1938
- The public favoured the option of collective security
- Bitish-French-Soviet pact would have forced a war on 2 fronts
- Czechoslovakia could have provided skoda works, defences, and 21 divisions, Germany gained its 150 tanks
- Could have defended czechoslovakia
- czechoslovakia could have provided skoda works, a mountain fortress, and 21 divisions as well as 150 tanks.
- "sacrificed a foreign land"
- Grand Aliance
- Against appeasement
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