1. Appeasement Fails
War is Inevitable

2. HITLER 1935 announced Germany would begin to rebuild their military
This was against the Treaty of Versailles
British urged appeasement
Britain/France were too worried about their own economies
Both wanted to avoid war

3. League of Nations 1936 German Troops move into Rhineland
(A buffer zone between Germany/France)
Reoccupation of Rhineland marks a turning point!

4. GERMANY Continues Aggression
1937 announces it plans to “absorb” Austria & Czechoslovakia
1938 Demands Sudentenland be given to Germany

5. Munich Conference 1938 Czechs & USSR not invited
Britain & France give Hitler Sudetenland
Policy of appeasement continued…
Hitler promises to “respect” new borders

6. “I believe it is peace for our time”
Neville Chamberlain
(Prime Minister of Britain)
September 1938

7. Winston Churchill: (future prime minister of England)
We are in the presence of
a disaster of the first magnitude
…we have sustained defeat
without war….this is only the
first sip….the foretaste of a
bitter cup….
Unless we arise again and take
our stand for freedom…

8. Munich

10. Nonaggression Pact Hitler & Stalin’s 1939 10-year pact signed
Secretly agree to divide Poland
other countries promised to Stalin
strategy: Hitler was assured there would be no attack from the east (USSR)

12. United States Followed policy of ISOLATIONISM:
argued WWI was a mistake
avoided ties with other countries
1935 passed the Neutrality Acts
Banned the sale of Arms to nations at war
Designed to keep USA out of a war

13. Isolationism

14. Hitler’s Dance 1935-- Rearmament begins in Germany
Moves into the Rhineland
Seizes Austria & demands Sudetenland
Munich Conference gives Hitler Sudetenland
1938- Hitler Breaks word & seizes all of Czechoslovakia
Next, Hitler demands the Polish port of Danzig

16. Appeasement