1. Hitler Rearms and Expands
How the League of Nations Failed and thus led to WWII

2. Appease and Attack Campaign
Started with signing a 10 year peace treaty with Poland in 1934
What does it mean to appease?
Then Hitler visits Mussolini for the first time

3. Hitler then Annexes Austria
Forces the Austrian president to sign the country over to him without even firing a shot
This upset Mussolini for a while because he was supposed to protest Austria
With the Annexation of Austria in place, Hitler began to put in place his “final solution” for the Jews
Term to know: lebensraum

4. Map of Annexation done by Germany

5. Hitler goes after Czechoslovakia
France and Britain knew long before the invasion that hitler wanted Czech.
Chamberlin, the PM of Britain at the time met with Hitler and they signed and agreed to give Hitler the section of Czech. known as Sudetenland
After Hitler did this, Mussolini took Algeria and the two signed a treaty known as the “Pact of Steel”

6. Update the Map

7. Why did England end Appeasement of Hitler?
Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia was the end of appeasement:
It proved that Hitler had been lying at Munich.
It showed that Hitler was not just interested in a 'Greater Germany' (the Czechs were not Germans).
On 17th March, Chamberlain gave a speech saying that he could not trust Hitler not to invade other countries.
On 31st March, Chamberlain guaranteed to defend Poland if Germany invaded.

8. Why end Now? Things happening in Europe
November 1938: Kristallnacht - attacks on the Jews in Germany.
March 1939: Czechoslovakia - Hitler invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia.
May 1939: Pact of Steel: an alliance was formed between Germany and Italy to help each other in times of war.
Things happening in Britain
Churchill's speeches: attacked appeasement as “"a defeat without a war"”.
October 1938: Oxford by-election - Chamberlain's Conservatives won, but the anti-appeasement candidate got lots of votes.
Lack of trust: Britain was building up its armed forces throughout 1938 and 1939.