Appeasement Policy
"A diplomatic policy aimed at aboiding war by making concessions to an aggressor"
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
We were concerned about the people that the people and property that we had there. And the Japanese apologized about killing two Americans on a boat.
Anshluss with Austria- 1938
Anshluss means Union. Some Austrians liked it but some didn't like being part of Germany but they didn't have the means to stop it.
Sudetenland/Munich Conference- 1938
Sudentenland area is the area by the western boarder from chzelsovakia. He wanted to unite German speeching peoples.
Munich Conference
Neville Chamberlain- Great Britain
Adolf Hilter- Germany
The guy from France
Benito Mussilino- Italy
Munich Pact- Appeasement
Germany was given the Sudentenland of Czechoslovakia. They had the option to accept the pact of deal with Germany itself.
Czechoslovakia lost it's defensible borders and fortifications.
Czechoslovakia also lost 70% of its iron/steel. 70% of its electrical power and lost 3.5 million citizens.
It 1939 Hitler takes the rest of Czechoslovakia
They started to take Hilter more seriously
Winston Churchill had warned about this happening (Hitler taking the rest of Czechoslovakia
Great Britain and France started mobilizing for war.
One week before the Poland invasion, there was a Nazi-Societ Non-aggression Pact- 1939
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, Estonia and Latvia and Germany would get Lithuania.
People were shocked and Poland was in a very tough spot. Hitler thought it would force Great Britain and France to back out of their promise to help Poland if attacked.
Blitzkreig-Lightning War
Most countries now focused on defensive tactics. German focused on acheiving victory as quickly as possible.
They started to think that they were unbeatable.
It's all about confusing and terrorizing the enemy. Air- They first took out the air fields so that the other countries can't get any thing up in the air. Take out transportation and communication. And factories. As that is happening the infantry is going in. The tanks and troops would go in to the middle of the country and flank them from behind.
Sitzkrieg- The Phony War
Nothing was happening during the war. It was the winter months so countries were just building up their forces.
Tripartite Pact is signed and Japan joins the Axis Powers- Germany, Japan, Italy
Allied Powers- Great Britain, Soviet Union, US, China, France, Australia, Canada, Latin America just more countries in general.
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