Why Had International Peace Collapsed by 1939?
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- Why Had International Peace Collapsed by 1939?
- How Far Was Hitler's Foreign Policy to Blame for the Outbreak of War in 1939?
- Abolition of TTOV
- Rearmament
- All German Speaking People's to be United in a German Reich
- Expand German Territory
- Defeat Communism
- Hitler's Preparations for German Expansion
- 1933 - withdraws Germany from the League
- 1934 - agreed a 10 year friendship with Poland
- March 1935 - reintroduced conscription in Germany
- Violation of TTOV
- June 1935 - naval agreement with Britain
- Allowed Germany to build up to 35% of Britain's naval strength and 45% of submarine strength
- Implied Germany had a right to rearm
- Violation of TTOV
- Implied Germany had a right to rearm
- Allowed Germany to build up to 35% of Britain's naval strength and 45% of submarine strength
- Hitler began rearming Germany in 1933
- Thousands of unemployed drafted into armed forces
- 1935 - massive military rally
- Was the Policy of Appeasement Justified?
- For
- Hitler was standing up to Communism
- Attitude of British Empire
- Dread of WWI repeat
- Britain was not ready for war
- Economic problems
- Hitler was right - TTOV was unfair
- The USA would not have supported
- Against
- It allowed Germany to grow too strong
- It sacred the USSR
- Put too much trust in Hitler's promises
- Encouraged Hitler to be aggressive
- For
- How Important Was the Nazi-Soviet Pact?
- Signed August 1939
- USSR would get Latvia, Estonia, Finland and East Poland
- Germany never really intended for this to happen
- 1st September 1939 - Germany invades Poland, knowing that Russia would not attack
- 3rd September - Britain declares war
- USSR would get Latvia, Estonia, Finland and East Poland
- Signed August 1939
- Why Did Britain and France Declare War on Germany in September 1939?
- Czechoslovakia
- March 1939 - Germany takes the rest of Czechoslovakia
- Chaos after loss of Sudetenland - Slovakia demanded independence
- German troops sent in to 'restore order'
- May 1939 - Germany signs 'Pact of Steel' with Italy
- Britain agrees to help Poland if invaded
- 3rd September - Britain declares war
- Britain agrees to help Poland if invaded
- May 1939 - Germany signs 'Pact of Steel' with Italy
- German troops sent in to 'restore order'
- Chaos after loss of Sudetenland - Slovakia demanded independence
- March 1939 - Germany takes the rest of Czechoslovakia
- The Saar Plebiscite
- January 1925 - 90% vote to join Germany after 15 years under the control of the League from 1920, as part of TTOV
- The Spanish Civil War
- Gave Hitler an opportunity to fight Communism and test out his new military capability
- Hitler and Mussolini saw they had much in common
- 1936-37 - Anti-Comintern Pact
- 1934 - Nazi revolt fails. Stopped by Mussolini sending troops to Austrian border
- Axis Alliance: Germany, Italy & Japan
- Schuschnigg calls plebiscite
- Hitler cannot be sure so sends in troops
- 99.75% vote for Anschluss
- Hitler cannot be sure so sends in troops
- 1936-37 - Anti-Comintern Pact
- Hitler and Mussolini saw they had much in common
- Gave Hitler an opportunity to fight Communism and test out his new military capability
- Austria
- 1934 - Nazi revolt fails. Stopped by Mussolini sending troops to Austrian border
- The Sudetenland
- 3 million Germans lived in the region of Czechoslovakia
- Britain and France would support Benes, who was ready to fight
- Brink of war
- Mussolini puts forward plan (formulated by German Foreign Office)
- Munich Agreement
- Germany gets the Sudetenland
- Munich Agreement
- Mussolini puts forward plan (formulated by German Foreign Office)
- Brink of war
- Britain and France would support Benes, who was ready to fight
- Czechoslovakia
- March 1939 - Germany takes the rest of Czechoslovakia
- Chaos after loss of Sudetenland - Slovakia demanded independence
- German troops sent in to 'restore order'
- May 1939 - Germany signs 'Pact of Steel' with Italy
- Britain agrees to help Poland if invaded
- Britain agrees to help Poland if invaded
- May 1939 - Germany signs 'Pact of Steel' with Italy
- German troops sent in to 'restore order'
- Chaos after loss of Sudetenland - Slovakia demanded independence
- March 1939 - Germany takes the rest of Czechoslovakia
- 3 million Germans lived in the region of Czechoslovakia
- Czechoslovakia
- How Far Was Hitler's Foreign Policy to Blame for the Outbreak of War in 1939?
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