Notes of other stuff on Thursday March 8th
Appeasement Policy
- A diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to an aggressor
- Great Britain and France used this 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
In 1937 Japan invaded China
Munich Pact- Appeasement
- Germany was given Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia
- Czech had the option to accept or deal with Germany
- Czech lost 3.5 million people to Germany
- Czechoslovakia lost it's defensible orders and fortifications.
HITLER TOOK THE REST OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA in MARCH of 1939
- British prime Minister Neville Chamberlain started taking Nazi Germany and Hitler much more seriously after this
- inston Churchill had warned about this happening
- rest Britain and France started mobilizing war
- Nazi Soviet non-aggression pact-1939 German ambassador bon Ribbentrop and Soviet dictator Stalin laugh as Molotov signs the 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
Blitzrieg
- Air force attacks enemy front-line and rear positions main roads, airfields and communication centers. At the same time, infantry attacks on the entire front line and engages enemy.
- Tank units breakthrough main lines of defense and advance deeper into enemy territory. While following, mechanized units pursue and engage defenders preventing them from establishing defensive positions. Infantry continues to engage enemy for the same reason.
- Infantry attacks enemy flanks in order to link up with other groups to complete the attack and eventually encircle the enemy and/or capture strategic position.
- Mechanized groups go deeper into the enemy territory outflanking the enemy positions from establishing effective defensive positions.
- Main force links up with other units encircling and cutting off the enemy
- Goal was to achieve victory as quickly as possible.
Tripartite Pact is signed Axis Powers (German, Italy, Japan)
Allied Powers (Great Britain, Soviet Union, US, China, France, Australia, Canada)
Maginot Line
- Was aline ofconcrete fortifications built by the french to create tank obstacles artillery casemate, machine gun posts, and other defenses
- France constructed this alongss its borders with Germany and Italy after what happened to them in WW1
Nazi Goals in the Battle of Britain
- Destroy the Royal Air Force (Hopefully by September 15th)
- Attack and destroy the British Navy
- Attack British Troops
- After gaining air superiority, the invasion of Great Britain would begin if G.B. had not already surrendered
- Germany never succeeded in achieving #1
- German bombers did so poorly against the RAF that they started bombing at night only-randomly attacking cities
- Great Britain was aided heavily by the radar and Ultra
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