Final Acts of Appeasement
_-Hitler in full power (many feared his armies)
-re militarizes the Rhineland (breaks the Locarno Pact)
-1938 take over Austria making it apart of Germany (Anschluss)
- Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor (Dolfuss affair)
- Sudentenland (an ethnic German area of Czechoslovakia)
- 3.5 million Germans lived there
- Neville Chamberlain wants Czech leader (Benes) to give the Sudentenland to Germany to prevent war
- Benes agreed to the Sudentens demands to end the crisis (Hitler threatens to occupy)
Munich Agreement
- French, British, Germany and Italy
- Hitler agrees to wait to occupy
- Appeases Hitler by giving Germany the Sudentenland
- Hitler has "no more territorial claims"
- French and Britain feared Hitler walking out of conference and declaring war
- Lots of shouting and yelling and walking out of the room-British and French did nothing in order to appease Hitler
- Italy objected, but Mussolini gave his approval for appeasement
-re militarizes the Rhineland (breaks the Locarno Pact)
-1938 take over Austria making it apart of Germany (Anschluss)
- Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor (Dolfuss affair)
- Sudentenland (an ethnic German area of Czechoslovakia)
- 3.5 million Germans lived there
- Neville Chamberlain wants Czech leader (Benes) to give the Sudentenland to Germany to prevent war
- Benes agreed to the Sudentens demands to end the crisis (Hitler threatens to occupy)
Munich Agreement
- French, British, Germany and Italy
- Hitler agrees to wait to occupy
- Appeases Hitler by giving Germany the Sudentenland
- Hitler has "no more territorial claims"
- French and Britain feared Hitler walking out of conference and declaring war
- Lots of shouting and yelling and walking out of the room-British and French did nothing in order to appease Hitler
- Italy objected, but Mussolini gave his approval for appeasement
Summary
_Many countries feared Hitler's wrath and tried to appease him in order to
prevent another war. The Munich Agreement is an example of Britain and
France appeasing Hitler by not objecting to his demands.