Chronology and Introduction 28 June, 1919 Versailles 24 October, 1929 The Crash September, 1931 Japan invades Manchuria 30 January, 1933 Chancellor Hitler 3 October, 1935 Abyssinian Crisis 7 March, 1936 Rhineland Remilitarized 1 November, 1936 Rome-Berlin Axis July, 1937 Japan/China War 12/3 March, 1938 Anschluss September, 1938 Chamberlain/Hitler 3 Times 29 September Munich Conference October, 1938 Sudetenland 15 March, 1939 Prague 30 March, 1939 Polish Guarantee 7 April, 1939 Annexation of Albania 22 May, 1939 Pact of Steel 1 September, 1939 Invasion of Poland 3 September, 1939 Britain Declares War
Long Term Causes Short Term Causes Immediate Causes Guilty Men? Five Major Points Long Term Causes Short Term Causes Immediate Causes Guilty Men? Policy of Necessity?
Long Term Versailles Borders Reparations Crash Economy Instability Third Reich
Short Term Open German Rearmament Abyssinia/Ethiopia Rhineland Rome/Berlin Axis Gentlemen’s Agreement
Immediate Anschluss Czechoslovakia Chamberlain Munich Sudetenland Prague Albania Pact of Steel Poland
Guilty Men? Churchill Eden Rearmament
Policy of Necessity? Chamberlain Economy Aversion to War Trust
Wrap Up Not inevitable Long/Short/Immediate Guilty? Necessity? Churchill
3 September, 1939
4 June, 1940
18 June, 1940