AQA: Britain and Appeasement 1919-1940 (4)

AQA: Britain and Appeasement 1919-1940 (4)

1. Chamberlain

   • Resignation
     • 1940

2. Occupation of Czechoslovakia

   • Chamberlain gave a military guarantee to Poland
   • 1939
   • No reason to
     • None were German
     • Czechs did not want Germany to invade
   • Pact of Steel
     • Italy and Germany
       • Mussolini and Hitler thought Britain wouldn't stand up to Hitler

3. Sudetenland/Munich Crisis

   • Chamberlain met with Hitler at Berchtesgaden
     • Didn't consult Cz, promised to give Hitler areas where 50% spoke German
       • Convinced France and finally Cz
   • Met back with Hitler at Bad Godesburg
     • Hitler demanded all of the Sudetenland
       • Almost a war
         • Mussolini suggested Munich Agreement
   • 1938
   • Munich Agreement
     • France and Britain agree to give Hitler Sudetenland
     • Chamberlain gets Hitler to sign paper saying he will not go to war with Britain
       • "Peace in our time"

4. Alternatives to appeasement

   • Duff Cooper
     • Openly advocated war
       • Thought it was the only way to stop the fascist dictators
   • Churchill
     • Grand Alliance
       • USSR
         • Communist
         • Too involved with their own revolution
         • Didn't trust them
       • USA
         • Isolationist
   • Labour Party
     • Use LoN to keep the peace
     • Stop aggressive powers using sanctions

5. Occupation of Poland

6. Anschluss

   • 1938
   • Wanted all German speaking countries to be united
   • Shared borders with Cz
   • Schuschnigg visited Hitler at his summer retreat at Berchtesgaden
     • Hitler made Austrian Nazi Seyss-Inquart member of gov
       • Called for him to cause trouble in Austria to justify German invasion
         • Schuschnigg announced referendum but canceled it and resigned after Hitler demanded it stopped