Why did war break out in 1939?
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- Created on: 24-10-18 10:00
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- Why did war break out in 1939?
- Failure of appeasement
- Allowed Hitler to gain land, men and resources
- Hitler became confident that the other leaders were too weak to stop him
- Clearly no option left but war
- Failure of the League
- Germany, Japan and Italy had all left by 1937
- Manchuria and Abyssinia proved the League could not work
- Hitler's open dishonesty
- Broke the Munich Agreement by invading Czechoslova-kia in 1939
- Nazi-Soviet Pact
- Change of public opinion
- Public was ready for war
- Saw that Hitler was a necessary evil to fight after Guernica
- Britain and France were prepared
- Appeasement bought them time to rearm
- Britain increased its aircraft from 1800 to 8000 from 1936-1939
- Failure of appeasement
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