For Appeasement
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- For Appeasement
- For Appeasement
- Treaty of Versailles promised self determination.
- appeasement was tradition
- The opposition to appeasement never had a united front, Chamberlain kept an obedient majority.
- Chamberlain wasnt naive, he wrote to his sister that he did not believe peace was more secure
- "prepare for the worst but hope for the best"
- Readiness for war
- Just suffered through the depression so rearmament was little before 1936.British priority lay with health and education schemes.
- In 1939 British expenditure on the army was £304 million whereas German was £1500 million.
- only 28% of the army were not in the empire and available, the 28% were equivalent to 3% of the German army
- In 1938, Britain only had 2 divisions whereas the USSR had 125 and the Czechs had 34
- the rearmament scheme in place still wasn't completed in 1939
- The military said we couldn't win a short war but the treasury said we couldn't win a long one
- The Munich agreement allowed time to further rearmam
- Czechs couldn't help us defend them, divided and weak army.
- it gave us time to develop radar which stretched from the isle of white to Orkney
- Just suffered through the depression so rearmament was little before 1936.British priority lay with health and education schemes.
- No Allies
- Us isolationism, encouraged Hitler and Chamberlain to using negotiations instead of the military
- no country wanted to work with Churchill who was seen as a war mongerer who wanted to provoke Hitler
- France remained politically unstable, 33 presidents in 1919 to 1930, and planned to stay behind the Maginot line.
- Nobody trusted the Ussr and its military capability was unknown after Stalin's decision to kill almost a third of its generals. everyone also feared its communism and needed Germany to act as a buffer against it.
- Poland and Rumania etc wouldn't allow USSR troops on their land
- No help from the dominions, chanak crisis, Australia and Canada refused help.
- Public opinion
- war fatigue, with numerous polls showing the public didn't see war as a solution
- Guernica, spain, in the spanish civil war, britain finally had a glance at what german bombers could do, "the bomber would always get through" wanted to avoid this in london
- The Oxford Union debate of 1933, students passed a motion not to fight for king and country in the future
- peace pledge union 1934
- Most people showed greater faith in the league of nations
- chamberlain had to listen to the electorate
- Treaty of Versailles, people thought Germany had genuine greivances
- For Appeasement
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