APPEASEMENTThrow the dog a bone…

What were some of the feelings that people had after the First World War?

WWI Aftermath• Massive numbers of

dead• Destruction• People didn’t want to

see another war like that• The whole idea of

peace, and keeping that peace was brought up and influenced policies.

The League of Nations• The UN – but old school• Set up after WWI by

President Woodrow Wilson to ensure that no more wars would happen.• Mentioned in his 14 points

• Uphold peace and security, and collective disarmament

• Ensured that Versailles was upheld…sort of…

Japan Tests the League - 1931• Population grew,

Japan needed resources• Invaded China –

province of Manchuria• League’s response?• International context• #LONfail

Italy Tests the League - 1935• Rise of Mussolini• Hitler comparisons

• Invades Ethopia• PM Mackenzie King does

nothing• Canadian/World Context• Mussolini created the

Fascist party• Tried to make a modern

Roman Empire through dictatorship

• “Il Duce”• #LONfail

Hitler’s Foreign Policy was built on three aims

• To reverse the Treaty of Versailles• To create a “Greater Germany” by

uniting all German speaking people• The creation of Lebensraum - living

space for the German people.

The Treaty Of Versailles

• Hitler removes Germany from the LON

• The German Army was limited to 100,000 men• Hitler triples it in 1935

• Germany had to pay reparations to the allies• Hitler refuses to

• Germany had to accept the War Guilt Clause (231)

• Germany lost 13% of its territories and all her colonies

Hitler showed he didn’t care about VersaillesWhat do you think the response of the League was?

Rhineland – 7 March 1936• Initially set up as a buffer

zone between France and Germany• Enters the de-militarized

zone after WWI• Sends in soldiers with

shovels and light munitions.

• Wanted to see what Britain and France would do• Significance?

Let’s be friends• Hitler openly defied the

Treaty of Versailles and the League did nothing• Italy and Japan also

had defied the League• World was not ready

for another WW• 1936 – Japan, Italy and

Germany agree to support each other.

APPEASEMENT

• A policy aimed to prevent aggressors from starting wars by finding out what they want and agreeing to demands that seem reasonable• Neville Chamberlain was

the British Prime Minister that negotiated with Hitler

King Visits Hitler - 1937• “A man of deep

sincerity”• King loved the idea of

appeasing Hitler• Canadian position

• King was a mama’s boy• Hitler convinces King

of no further aggression

Anschluss - 1938• Reunification of Austria

and Germany• Hitler breaks his promise

of leaving Austria alone.• Gave the Austrian

President a ultimatum, and then marched in• Took over a country

without firing a shot• Germany’s population

instantly adds 6 million people

LEBENSRAUM

• Hitler’s Greater Germany would have a population of over 85 million people• Germany’s land would be insufficient to feed this

many people• Hitler intended to expand eastward towards

Poland and Russia• Russians and Poles were Slavs-Hitler believed

them to be inferior and so Germany was entitled to take their land.

Creation of a Greater Germany

• Hitler wanted a single homeland for all German speaking people• After Versailles millions of

Germans were living in Foreign countries• The Treaty of Versailles

had forbidden the union of Germany and Austria- The Anschluss

1938 Munich Agreement• Pact for the annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudentenland• Czechoslovakia was not present at the conference• Significance of the territory.

Chamberlin’s fatal mistake• Chamberlin is invited by

Hitler to discuss the annexation of Czechoslovakia• Eventually appeases

Hitler and allows it• Czech’s are pressured by

Britain and France to give up territory• 1939 march into Czech

territory – Munich betrayal

Chamberlin Video

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact• Hitler (fascist) and

Stalin (communist)• Expansion of both

countries territories• Two front war• SU was suspicious of

the West• Wasn’t at the Munich

agreement• Hitler and Stalin divide

Poland secretly.

WWII is ready to go

Chamberlin

•Is Chamberlin responsible for the start of the Second World War, or was he right in adopting appeasement as his foreign policy?