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Brief Response
• What caused many in the world to disfavor the
US, Britain, and France in the 1930s and what
were the results for millions?
• Dissatisfaction over the Treaty of Versailles
• Foreign governments blamed the economic
carelessness and failures in the capitalist leaders
that ruined the world economy.
• Millions supported dictators who promised to
build fascist empires that would be protected
from future failures.
War in Europe
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• Nazi Germany began World War II and soon
took control of most of Europe, except for
Great Britain.
• Germany used modern mechanized and air
warfare.
Winston Churchill
• Member of Parliament who despised Hitler.
• He criticized Chamberlain’s naiveté.
• Parliament’s House of Commons still voted for
Chamberlain’s agreement.
• Worksheet: Churchill quote
appeasement
• French and British policy of giving up
principles in favor of pacifying an aggressor
(Hitler).
Nonaggression pact
• Stalin believed that Britain and France were
trying to point Hitler’s aggression at the Soviet
Union.
– He decided to turn the tables.
• He made an agreement between Hitler NOT
to make war on each other.
• Surprised the world community.
blitzkrieg
• German fighting style, “lightning war”
– Fast tanks and powerful aircraft: terrorize,
confuse, disrupt.
– Main army would then crush the bewildered
enemy.
• First used on Poland, on September, 1939.
– Video: worksheet questions
Charles de Gaulle
• Fled to England when France fell in 1940.
• Started a French “government in exile” in
London.
– Made radio broadcasts to mainland France.
– Coordinated the French resistance.
• “France has lost a battle, but France has not lost
the war!”
• He’d become the leader of French forces during
the war and French President after the war.
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p. 537, summarizing
• Annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland
p. 538, geography skillbuilder
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Austria
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Greece
Romania
Slovakia
Hungary
Poland
Lithuania,
Latvia
Estonia
Finland
Norway
France
Denmark
The Netherlands
Belgium
The Soviet Union
• It was centrally located
p. 539, evaluating
• The development of improved tanks and
airplanes had made “blitzkrieg” tactics
effective.
p. 540, analyzing motives
• As a way of protecting their independence.
p. 541, 3, analyzing motives,
just cite three.
• Hitler’s deceptions included:
• Charging the Czechs with abusing Sudeten
Germans.
• Claiming the Sudetenland was his “last territorial
demand.”
• Accusing Poles of brutalizing Germans.
• Signing a secret pact with the Soviets, dividing
Poland.
• Justifying the invasions of Denmark and Norway
as necessary to safeguard his plans.
p. 541, 4, evaluating conclusions
MP vote for Munich Agreement
MP vote against Munich
Agreement
• Appeasement would help
avert war.
• Compromise is not a sign of
weakness.
• Appeasement would feed
Hitler’s military aggression.
• Great Britain should defend
its honour and declare war.
p. 541, 5, drawing conclusions,
just one will do.
• After the Munich Conference—Britain and
France let Germany take the Sudetenland.
• After taking Czechoslovakia—France and
Britain ignored their pledge to protect
Czechoslovakia.
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Brief Response
• What diplomatic and military methods made
it possible for Nazi Germany to accomplish so
much?