The delayed economic strain felt by France in the early years of Hitler’s rule had meant that by the late 1930s, there were vast limitations on the military strength of both nations.
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Economic/Military- Martel 1986
Military spending was ‘an unnecessary luxury
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Economic/Military-Steiner 2011
Not only had Britain reduced its national armament expenditure but France had also adopted a policy of balancing the national budget through a reduction in armament funding.
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Economic/Military- Thomas 2008
Appeasement suited the stringent financial conditions of the 1930s’.
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Lack of Support- Adamthwaite 1992
France was ‘deemed politically and militarily unreliable. The 1936 Neutrality Acts which ‘confirmed American isolationism’
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Lack of Support- Mckercher 2008
The previously relied on collective security had evidently failed with the League of Nations seeing little success within the 1931 Manchuria Crisis and the 1935 Abyssinia Crisis.
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PO- Einstein 1939
‘horrors of war had impressed itself on a dwindling population’.
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PO- Kirk 1946
France had lost 5% of its population, a fairly large amount in comparison to Britain’s loss of 1.9%
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PO- Bell 2013
a desire for peace, or even pacifism, largely ‘exercised a pervasive influence in France’.
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N- Faber 2010
Belief that Chamberlain could ‘single handedly’ prevent the outbreak of war.
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N- Adamthwaite
belief that old-world diplomacy and negotiations to be ‘natural order’.
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N-Steiner 2011
a ‘perceptual gap’ between the two statesmen, with Chamberlain believing that human reasonableness would triumph and outweigh the ambitions of Hitler,
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N- Aster 2008
yet this was a ‘fatal misjudgement’ of the extent that Hitler would go to establish Nazi Germany as a dominant nation.
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AJP Taylor
Appeasement to be an active policy established by 'men confronted with real problems, doing their best in the circumstances of their time’
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Parker
Counter-revisionism adopted the stance that appeasement was a viable policy, yet Chamberlain’s personality meant that it was an ineffective policy.
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Gilbert
states Appeasement to be a result of ‘a mood of hope, Victorian in its optimism’.
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Levy 2006
appeasement was the attempt of the British and French to create a solution that was ‘logical, rational, and humane’
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Military spending was ‘an unnecessary luxury
Back
Economic/Military- Martel 1986
Card 3
Front
Not only had Britain reduced its national armament expenditure but France had also adopted a policy of balancing the national budget through a reduction in armament funding.
Back
Card 4
Front
Appeasement suited the stringent financial conditions of the 1930s’.
Back
Card 5
Front
France was ‘deemed politically and militarily unreliable. The 1936 Neutrality Acts which ‘confirmed American isolationism’
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