We continued taking notes on WWII.
Appeasement Policy-
- A diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to an agressor.
- Great Britain and France used this policy throughout the 1930's.
- Helped give Japan, Italy, and Germany confidence that they would face no consequences for their actions.
- Considered to be a huge mistake by historians.
Panay Incident- 1937, attacked by planes, Japan thought it was an accident, they apologized.
Anschluss with Austria- 1938, anschluss-union, example of apeasement, Austrians were split, couldn't prevent it so they accepted it.
Sudetenland/Munich Conference- 1938, Hitler wanted Sudetenland for the German speaking people, Hitler's major goal- to reunite German speaking people.
Neville Chamberlain- Great Britain
Adolf Hitler- Germany
Benito Mussolini- Italy
Edouard Daladier- France
Munich Pact-
- Apeasement.
- Germany was given the Sudentenland of Czechoslovakia.
- Czechoslavakia had the option to accept the pact or deal with Germany itslef.
- Czech. lost its defensible borders and fortifications.
- Czech. also lost 70% of its iron/steel.
- 70% of its electical power.
- 3.5 million citizens to Germany as a result of the settlement.
- Hitler promised not to take any more land.
Chamberlain was popular and Churchill was seen as someone who wanted to have war, later Churchill became more popular.
March 1939- Hitler takes the rest of Czechoslovakia
- British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain started taking Nazi Germany and Hitler much more seriously after this.
- Winston Churchill had warned about this happening- Hiterl taking the rest of Czech.
- Great Britain and France started mobilizing for war.
Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact 1939- German ambassador von Ribbentrop and Soviet dictator Stalin.
- Russia gave raw materials to Germany in exchange for money and weapons.
- Both agreed to stay neutral if the other entered the war.
- Secretly agreed to invade and split Poland.
- Germany would get the western half and USSR the eastern half.
- Russia would get Finland, Esonia, and Latvia.
- Germany would get Lithuania.
- People were shocked.
- Poland was in a tough spot.
- Hitler thought it would force Great Britain and France to back out of their promise to help Poland if attacked.
Blitzkreig-
- Lightening war.
- Germant focused on offensive- achieve victory as quickly as posible.
- German military got an air about them for having so many victories.
- Confuse and terrorize the enemy, take out enemy airfields, communication lines, transportation lines, troops, factories.
- Moving in with infintry and tanks, go inland with trucks and troops to trap them on both sides.
- Make them surrender.
Sitzkrieg- the phony war, U.S. thinks it's fake, Germany called it sitzkrieg- still war, winter months, countries build up armies.
Tripartitie Pact- Japan signes with Axis powers- Germany, Italy, Japan. Others- Albania, Bulgaria ect.
Allied- Great Britain, Soviet Union, U.S., China, France, Australia, Canada, and Latin America.
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