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Appeasement
1936• Hitler’s armies invade
the Rhineland, violating the Treaty of Versailles
• Rhineland: economically prosperous area along French-German border
• After WWI: demilitarized zone, due to border disputes
1936 -Rome-Berlin Axis• Formal alliance
between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy
• Focused on common goal of building empires and seeking revenge for the Treaty of Versailles
1938• Appeasement:
Foreign policy of France and Britain
• This is making concessions, or giving in to keep peace
• Due to economic and social problems after WWI, these nations did not want another war
1938• Hitler declares
Austria as rightfully part of Germany (Aryan)
• Nazi troops march in, and a puppet gov’t approves the German Anschluss (annexation) of Austria
https://youtu.be/hqZ-wcwLZcI?To 3:25
1938
• Hitler also wanted to control the Sudetenland, because it was populated mostly by Germans.
• This area was part of Czechoslovakia (formed after WWI)
1938 - Munich Conference• Hitler meets with
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
• Also present were Mussolini and French Premier Daladier
• NOT present: Czechoslovakia
Decision: Hitler could keep Sudetenland, and non-Germans had to leave
• Chamberlain returned home to Britain and was cheered: he had achieved “peace for our time”
https://youtu.be/hqZ-wcwLZcI 3:30 - end
1939• March: Hitler annexes Czechoslovakia, violating
the Munich Pact
• August: Hitler & Stalin sign the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact (Nazi-Soviet Pact): Agreed not to attack one another, and would share the land in Eastern Europe (This is a trick by Hitler - now he only has to fight a one front war!!)
• September 1: Nazi invasion of Poland; Britain & France declare war on Germany, and WWII begins
Blitzkrieg: Lightning War
• Overwhelming build-up of offensive weapons (tanks, planes, artillery) along a narrow front to smash through opponent’s defenses
https://youtu.be/8ha0qKquG2E?