Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why had international peace collapsed by 1939? (Chapter summary)
- The late 1920's
Anmerkungen:
- Better hope for international piece
- Countries were co-operating as well as trading with each other
- Agreements had been agreed on
- The Great Depression in the 1930's
- Dictators like Hitler had a chance to rise to power
- Alliances formed during the time
- Hitler were allies with Italy and Japan
- The Treaty of Versailles
- Germany was unhappy about the treaty, as well as Hitler . Hitler wanted to chalange the terms of the treaty
- Hitler rearmed Germany from 1933
- Sent troops into the demilitarised zone of the Rhineland in 1936
- The Appeasement Policy
- League of Nations, Britain nor France did not try to stop Hitler from breaking the Treaty of Versailles
- This leaded to the Appeasement Policy
- This is what Hitler had wanted in the hope that he wont ask for more
- Hitler invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia which put an end to the Appeasement Policy
- Hitler was told that any further expansion would lead to war
- Munich Agreement 1938
- Sudetenland
- An area in Czechoslovakia that hitler wanted
- Britain and France gave Hitler the Sudetenland as long as he did not try to take over Czechoslovakia
- Full of natural resources that can help rebuild Germany economically as well as with armoury
- Holds most of Czechoslovakia's power stations that power the country with electricity
- The Pact with Stalin (Russia)
- Hitler had signed a Pact with Stalin in 1939
- Not to attack each other
- Divide Poland between them
- Hitler saw Stalin as an enemy due to the fact that Hitler was very anti-Communist
- Hitler Invaded Poland in september 1939
- Britain declared war on Germany
- Causing the Second World War
- Historians say all factors played a role on the cause of the Second World War
- Hitlers foreign policy played a major role
- Economic factors
- The Great Depression
- Failure of the League
- Unfairness of the First World War peace treaties