why did we go to war?
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- Created on: 10-05-14 14:12
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- Why did we go to war 1935-38
- Chamberlain
- Policy of APPEASEMENT
- France and Britain agreed appeasement was the best policy
- FOR
- REMEMBERED WW1 remembered deaths and wanted to avoid war happening again
- Britain not ready for war, still suffering from ww1
- 1936 britain started rearming: no match for Germany in 1938
- general consensus that people believed t.o.v was too harsh on Germany
- high unemployment and poverty in depression in britain
- Stay out of foreign policy elsewhere
- scared of COMMUNISM
- GERMANY involved in spanish civil war
- AGAINST
- It gave hitler an advantage and time to rearm and remilitarise
- allowed hitler to break the t.o.v and other policies
- appeasement was cowardice
- hindsight
- appeasement was cowardice
- chamberlain misjudged hitler, thought he would be normal and not disregard everything
- did not stop war from happening :0
- Policy of APPEASEMENT
- sudeten crisis and munich agreement 1938
- hitler took plans further; set hiis sights on the new country of czechoslovakia
- area in czechoslovakia called sudetenland= german speaking people
- henlein is leader of sudetenland = hitler told him to spread discontent
- german newspapers published alligations towards czechs. hitler threatened war
- this lead to brink of war
- german newspapers published alligations towards czechs. hitler threatened war
- henlein is leader of sudetenland = hitler told him to spread discontent
- area in czechoslovakia called sudetenland= german speaking people
- from this, chamberlain thought there was an answer to everything that had gone on
- argued that sudetenland should be able to self-govern
- benez agreed
- hitler disagreed, made new lst of demands that said he wanted sudetenland to be part of german reich
- 22 december meeting between benez and hitler
- benez refused hitlers want
- ment war was close
- benez refused hitlers want
- 22 december meeting between benez and hitler
- hitler disagreed, made new lst of demands that said he wanted sudetenland to be part of german reich
- benez agreed
- argued that sudetenland should be able to self-govern
- hitler took plans further; set hiis sights on the new country of czechoslovakia
- Munich agreement 1938
- 29th september chamberlains last effort to maintain peace
- met with hitler daladier and mussolini in munich to try and solve sudeten crisis
- benez wasnt invited!
- met with hitler daladier and mussolini in munich to try and solve sudeten crisis
- czechs forced to hand over sudetenland to hitler
- result of munich agreement was britain and germany would not go to war
- chamberlain returned a hero = preventing war
- britain and france increased rate of armament
- czech government hugely humiliated
- area of land they controlled was reduced
- 29th september chamberlains last effort to maintain peace
- Chamberlain
- german newspapers published alligations towards czechs. hitler threatened war
- this lead to brink of war
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