Examples of Appeasment
- Panay Incident 1937
- Anschluss With Austria 1938
Sudetenland/Munich Conference 1938- Neville Chamberlain- GB, Adolf Hitler- Germany, Benito Mussolini-Itlay, Edouard Daladier-France-- attended the munich conference-- hilter wanted the german people back in germany from Czechoslovakia
Munich pact appeasement
- Germany given the sudentenladn of Czechoslovakia
- they were given the option to accept the pact or deal with germany itself
- lost its defensible borders and fortifications
- lost 70% of its iron/steel, 70% of its electrical power and 3.5 million citizens to germany as a result of the settlement
- hitler told the other countries exactly what they wanted to hear- no major war coming
- Chamberlain "Peace for our Time" he thought it prevented war but it gave hitler another year or so to build up his military
- Hitler takes the rest of czechoslovakia march 1939
- first time hitler shows he wanted more than getting germans back to germany
- GB and France started mobilizing for war
- Winston Churchill had warned about this happening(hitler taking the rest of czechoslovakia
Nazi- Soviet Non- Agression Pact- 1939
- german ambassador- Ribbentrop
- Soviet dictator- stalin
- august 23, 1939
- russia and germany hated each other
- 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- western half, russia- eastern half
- russia would get finland estonia and latvia and germany would get lithuania
how did the world react to this pact?
- Shock
- Poland was in a tough spot
- hitler thought is would force GB and france to back out of their promise to help poland if attacked
September 1, 1939- Germany invades Poland
Blitzkrieg Attack
- Lightning war- win as quickly as possible
- offensive attack
- Wanted to take out their military and air defenses with bombs- factories, roads, communications lines
- tanks and troops invading from germany
- attack from the from and flank and circle the enemy forcing them to surrender or die
- trucks go inland and drop troops off
- no one had ever seen this type of attack before
Sitzkrieg- The Phony War
- Germany and russia were preparing while everyone was waiting for the war
Tripartite Pact is Signed Axis Powers
- Main powers- Germany, Italy, Japan
- others- Albania, Bulgaria finland romania thailand hungary
Allied Powers
- Main- Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, China, Canada, and Australia
- Latin Americans were on our side
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