Appeasement Policy - diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to an aggressor
Panay Incident - Japan sunk an American ship by "accident"
Anschluss with Austria - Germany annexed Austria (Hitler said "uniting")
Sudetenland Area - had German people in it
Munich Conference - GB, Germany, Italy, France --->Munich Pact
Winston Churchill against the Appeasement Policy
Hitler invades rest of Czechoslovakia - begin taking Hitler more seriously (mobilising for war)
Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact - trade deal, both agreed to stay neutral if the other entered war, secretly agreed to invade Poland and split it (including Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)
Blitzkrieg - "Lightning War" offensive tactics, achieve victory as quickly as possible
Sitzkrieg - phony war, nothing is happening
Tripartite Pact - Axis Powers formed
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