Appeasement Policy
- "a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding 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
Munich Conference
- Neville Chamberlain - Great Britain
- Adolf Hitler - Germany
- Benito Mussolini - Italy
- Edouard Daladier - France
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- Compromise known as Munich Pact
- Germany as given the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia
- Czechoslovakia had the option to accept Pact or deal with Germany itself
- Czechoslovakia lost its defensible borders and forts
- Czechoslovakia also lost 70% of its iron/steel. 70% if its electrical power and 3.5 million citizens to Germany as a result of the settlement.
- British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain started taking Nazi Germany and Hitler much more seriously after this
- Winston Churchill had warned about this happening (Hitler taking over Czechoslovakia)
- Great Britain and France started mobilizing for war
Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact
- 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 when found out about it!*
- Poland was in a very tough position
- Hitler thought it would force Great Britain and France to back out of their promise to help Poland if attacked
Axis Powers:
- Germany
- Italy
- Japan
Allied Powers:
- Great Britain
- Soviet Union
- United States
- China
- France
- Australia
- Canada
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