Appeasement Fails War is Inevitable HITLER 1935 announced

Appeasement Fails War is Inevitable

HITLER • 1935 announced Germany would begin to rebuild their military – This was against the Treaty of Versailles • British urged appeasement – Britain/France were too worried about their own economies – Both wanted to avoid war

League of Nations • 1936 German Troops move into Rhineland – (A buffer zone between Germany/France) • Reoccupation of Rhineland marks a turning point!

GERMANY Continues Aggression • 1937 announces it plans to “absorb” Austria & Czechoslovakia • 1938 Demands Sudentenland be given to Germany

Munich Conference 1938 • Czechs & USSR not invited • Britain & France give Hitler Sudetenland – Policy of appeasement continued… • Hitler promises to “respect” new borders

“I believe it is peace for our time” Neville Chamberlain (Prime Minister of Britain) September 1938

Winston Churchill: (future prime minister of England) We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude …we have sustained defeat without war…. this is only the first sip…. the foretaste of a bitter cup…. Unless we arise again and take our stand for freedom…

Cartoon Analysis Handout

Hitler & Stalin’s Nonaggression Pact • 1939 10 -year pact signed • Secretly agree to divide Poland – other countries promised to Stalin Hitler was assured there would be no attack from the east (USSR) • strategy:

United States • Followed policy of ISOLATIONISM: – argued WWI was a mistake – avoided ties with other countries • 1935 passed the Neutrality Acts – Banned the sale of Arms to nations at war – Designed to keep USA out of a war

Isolationism

Hitler’s Dance • 1935 -- Rearmament begins in Germany • 1936 -- Moves into the Rhineland • 1938 -- Seizes Austria & demands Sudetenland – Munich Conference gives Hitler Sudetenland • 1938 - Hitler Breaks word & seizes all of Czechoslovakia • Next, Hitler demands the Polish port of Danzig

Appeasement

Hitler Video • 30 minutes