Appeasement
- Created by: Tyrella Baker-Smith
- Created on: 26-03-13 11:15
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- Appeasement
- FOR
- Gave Britain time to re-arm
- People wanted to avoid war.
- France did not want war. And Britain could not fight Germany alone.
- Many honestly believed Hitler was the good guy
- AGAINST
- It abandoned millions of Austrians and Czechs to the brutal Nazi terror.
- Gave Germany time to strengthen their armed forces.
- Hitler became more aggressive as he felt Britain would not take action.
- If Britain and France would not intervene over Czechosovakia, unlikely they would take any action to defend other threatened countries.
- What is Appeasement?
- giving in to the demands of a leader to get to short term goals avoiding conflict.
- Munich Conference
- September 1938: the leaders of Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy met.
- Hitler had demanded the possession of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia
- Sudetenland was the area contained the Czech border fortifications and some heavy industry as well as 3 million Germans
- British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain tried to talk him out of it but Hitler wouldn't back down
- Chamberlain decided to follow appeasement and gave in to Hitler on this issue, hoping that Hitler would not make any more demands.
- All met in Munich with Hitler agreed to the Sudetenland going to Germany. Czechoslovakia wasn't invited. Hitler said that it was his "final demand"
- just five months later, Hitler broke the spirit of the agreement by dismembering the rest of Czechoslovakia
- Embarassing for the British and French
- just five months later, Hitler broke the spirit of the agreement by dismembering the rest of Czechoslovakia
- Why did Hitler want Sudetenland?
- contained 3.5 million Germans
- he saw it as German land
- Sudeten Germans claimed the Czechs victimised them, they wanted union with Germany.
- steel, iron, and related industries were there
- Rest of Czechoslovakia
- On 15 March 1939, German troops marched into Czechoslovakia.
- They took over Bohemia, and established a protectorate over Slovakia.
- Czechs lost defensive fortresses and industry from sudetenland loss- vulnerable to German attacks.
- Czechoslovakian president Emil Hacha appealed to Hitler for help
- Why didnt France and Britain go to war?
- They didnt want to sacrifice their troops
- Neither would go to war without each other and Britain hadnt enough troops
- Appeasemnt was being followed
- Nazi-Soviet Pact
- On August 23, 1939 a 'Non-aggression Pact' was signed. Very surprising
- Germany had protected itself from having to fight a two-front war in the soon-to-begin World War II.
- Soviet Union was awarded land, including parts of Poland and the Baltic States
- The pact was broken when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union less than two years later, on June 22, 1941.
- Impact
- Raw materials from Russia to Germany
- One less country against what Hitler was doing
- Why did Britain and France go to war in 1939?
- Appeasement had failed. It was the only other option
- Germany invaded Poland. France and Britain had a Treaty with Poland to help defend it in case of attack
- They wanted to stop Germany before it became too powerful.
- FOR
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