1. Pre-World War II 1918-1939 Today:
Remember WWII Still Has NOT Officially
started…we’re working our way there!
Today:
1.) Review what we should have learned
last week.
2.) What was the Munich Agreement? Were the Allies stupid for making an agreement with Hitler??

2. Purpose of the Meeting = Negotiate with Hitler
Welcome to Munich!

3. Could Hitler be trusted?
The Munich Conference
(Sept 1938)
Could Hitler be trusted?
1934: Hitler starts to rebuild Germany’s
army.
Feb 1938: Anschluss = Germany “reunites”
with Austria.
Sept 1938: finally sit down to talk at Munich
Conference

5. Sept 1938: Munich Conference
Allies present  G.B and France
Axis present  Italy and Germany
Hitler wants parts of Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland)
Agreement Reached = known as Appeasement
GB and France gave Hitler this land, but made him promise not to take over anymore land.

7. What was Chamberlain (GB) thinking? Was he stupid to give-in to
Discussion:
What was Chamberlain (GB) thinking?
Was he stupid to give-in to
Hitler’s demands at Munich?

8. Ya that’s all…just Sudetenland…
I want all German’s to join the Reich. They want to…so let’s me make it happen
Ya that’s all…just Sudetenland…
I’m pretty determined to do this…I’ll risk a world war if I have to.
So you just want those 3 million German’s in Czech? No more?? Right??

9. Germany will get stronger… Especially their airforce.
Czechoslovakia
will be
absorbed by Germany.
Germany will get stronger…
Especially their airforce.
If war can wait 6-12 months…
We’ll be ready to fight…

10. Appeasement: Were the Allied Powers stupid!?
Why did Great Britain go along with
the appeasement agreement?
To stall…buy time…
prepare for the eventual war.

11. The Munich Agreement
= The “Scrap of Paper”

13. Should Russian fear an invasion?
German Soviet Nonaggression Pact:
they will both take
Back their piece of Poland and they promised
Not to attack each other.

14. Soviet Non-Aggression Pact