Today we had one more blog discussion:
Morgan- Diary of Anne Frank
Then we continued notes on WWI
Appeasement Policy
- "a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessinos 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 that they would face no consequences for their actions
- Considered to be a huge mistake by historians
Panay Incident- 1937
- U.S. was still trading with Japan
- It was an attack on a U.S. ship by Japanese airplanes.
Anschluss with Austria- 1938
- The union of Germany and Austria
- No one did anything because they didn't think anything of it (Austrians are ethnic germans)
Sudentenland/Munich conference- 1938
- Czechs and Slovs lived in Czechoslavakia
- Anyone who spoke germany or was german needed to be in Germany
- Neville Chamberlain- Great Britain
- Adolf Hitler- Germany
- Benito Mussolini- Italy
- Edourard Daladar- France
- Munich Pact- Appeasement
- Hitler wanted sudentenland and they gave it to him
- Czechoslavakia lost 70% of its iron/steel, 70% of its electrical power and 3.5 million people to Germany
- Chamberlain: "Peace for our time"
- Winston Churchill ends up taking over after hitler invades poland
- Hitler Takes the Rest of Czechoslavakia- March, 1939
- Britich Prime Minister Naville Chamberlain started taking Nazi Germany and Hitler serious
- Chuchill had warned about this happening(Hitler taking the rest of Czechoslavakia.
- Great Britain and Freance started mobilizing for war.
Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact- 1939
- Soviet was never an axis power.
- But this was to make it look like they were working together.
- avoid war between them
- Russia gave raw materials to Germany in exchange for money and weapons
- Both agreed to stay neutral if the other entered the war.
- Secretly aagreed to invade and split poland. Germany world get the western half and USSR the eastern half
- Russia would get Finland, Estonia, and Latvia and Germnay would get Lithuania
- People were shocked
- Poland was in a tough position.
- Hitler thought it would force Great Britain and France to back out ot their promise to help Poland if attacked.
Blitzkrieg-Lighting War
- Goal was to acheive victory as quickly as possible.
- German army was strong but not as tough and they looked.
- Germany is taking out air fields any military bases, troops, communication lines, Transportation, and factories.
- Polish were scared to death and that was helpful for Germany to take them over.
Sitzkrieg- The Phony War
- No one is fighting.
- Countries were preparing for war and they didn't want to fight durign the winter months(November, December, January, February, and March)
Axis Powers
- Germany, Italy and Japan
Allied Powers
- Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, China, France, Austrilia, and Canada
- Vast majority of countries on the Allied side.
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