AQA: Britain and Appeasement 1919-1940 (3)

Spanish Civil War
1. Popular Front Vs Nationalists
  1. Popular Front made up of left wing groups
  2. Nationalists lead by Franco Frank
    1. Right wing
2. Non-Intervention Pact
  1. Did not interfere with the situation
    1. France ruled by Popular Front too
    2. Britain didn't want public to want change
  2. 1936
  3. USSR, Italy and Germany signed despite going against it
    1. Franco and the Fascists
      1. Italy
        Sent 100,00 men
      2. Germany
        Sent planes
    2. The Popular Front
      1. USSR
        Sent everything they could
3. 1936-1939
Public Opinion
1. Rearmament
  1. Fulham East By-election
    1. 1933
    2. Didn't want it
2. Anti-War
  1. WW1 was so bad
  2. Evolved from trench war so even more dangerous
    1. Airplanes and bombs
3. Views on events
  1. Abyssinia
    1. Hoare-Laval Pact wrong
  2. ToV
    1. Too harsh
  3. Remilitarisation of Rhineland
    1. Hitler did nothing wrong
  4. Locarno
    1. Europe finally at peace
Military Preparedness
1. Depression
  1. Couldn't spend money on rearming
  2. 10 year rule
    1. 1919-1932
    2. Stopped all military spending
    3. Churchil
2. Unprepared
  1. Could not go to war and win
3. Saw no reason to
  1. No imminent threat
Stanley Baldwin
1. Followed a policy of appeasement?
  1. YES
    1. Won 1935 election through policy of disarmament and collective security
    2. Remilitarisation of Rhineland
      1. He let Hitler
      2. Unwilling to act, scared of war
    3. Set up Non-Intervention Committee
      1. Discourage intervention
  2. NO
    1. Introduced rearmament in 1936
    2. Realistic policy to deal with events happening
    3. Lacked allies so war was not an option
2. 'Active' Appeaser
3. Conservative
4. Came to power in 1935

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