Sudetenland/Munich Conference 1938
-Hitler wanted Sudetenland because it was germans in it. He demands it.
-Neville Chamberlain-Great Britian
-Adolf Hitler-Germany
-Benito Mussolini-Italy
-Edouard Daladier-France
Munich Pact-Appeasement
-Germany was given the Sudentenland of Czechoslovakia
-Czechoslovakia had the option to accept Pact or deal with Germany itself
-Czechoslovakia lost it's defensible borders and fortifications
-Czechoslovakia also lost 70% of its iron/steal, 70% of its electrical power and 3.5 million citizens to Germany as a result of settlement
Munich Conference Chamberlain:"Peace for our time"
-returned a hero
-he thought he prevented war...did for a year.
Winston Churchill
-heavilly criticized the appeasement pact
-was deemed a war monitor
-redeemed in 1939
Hitler Takes the Rest of Czechoslovakia-March, 1939
-split it into groups.
-Hitler showed he had grander things then just getting German land back
-British Prim Minister Neville Chamberlain started taking Nazi Germany and Hitler much more seriously after this.
-Winston Churchill had warned about this happening(Hitler taking the rest of Czechoslovakia:
-Great Britain and France started moblizing for war
Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact-1939
-German ambassador von Ribbentrop and Soviet dictator Stalin laugh as Molotov signs the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact August 23, 1939
-pact of convience
-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
How did the world react to this pact?
-Shock
-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
German invasion of Poland-Sept. 1, 1929
within weeks it was over.
Blitzkrieg-Lighting War
-most countries after WW1 focused on defensive tactics
-Hitler and Germany decided to focuse on offensive tactics-had Blitzkrieg War...was like only country to focus and offensive tactics
-was a quick war with airplane bombing
-wanted to take out factories, transportation systems, communication lines,
-tanks and troops would be invading from Germany
-mechanized units went further into Poland, was designed to go around and trap them on both sides.
-Flank means to go around
-Man force links up with other units encircling and cutting off enemies
-Goal was to achieve victory as quickly as possible and the people surrender and be killed.
-no one had ever seen this type of attack before
Sitzkrieg-The Phony War
-US calls it the Phony War
-nothing happened for months
-sitzkrieg-sitting war
-were getting ready for war...waiting out the winter months
Tripartite Pact is signed Axis Powers
-Axis Powers is offically formed
-Main Powers-Germany,Italy, Japan
-Other Powers-Albania, Bulgaria, Finland,Romania, Thailand, Hungary
Allied Powers
-Main Powers-Great Britain, Soviet Union, US, China, France,Australia
Latin America- Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Paraguay, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Sominican Republic, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatamala...
-Europe-Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Netherlands, Luxembourg...
-we won because we had more people and resources
ULTRA-
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