Appeasement & War
 Born: 1889
Austria Hungary
 Died: 1945 Berlin Germany
 Title: Fuhrer of Germany & Chancellor of
Germany
 Trivia:
• He was a painter
• Infantry in WWI and was gassed
• Tried to take power in 1922 (Beer Hall Putsch,
Munich)
 SA
(SS)
• Brown Shirts
• Killed Hitler’s opposition
 Hitler
appointed Chancellor
 1933 Fuhrer
 Book Burnings
 Kristallnacht
 Ghettos
• Concentration Camps

Hitler Violates treaty of Versailles by building up
the German Military (1936)
• ARTICLE 160.
• (1) By a date which must not be later than March 31, 1920,
the German Army must not comprise more than seven
divisions of infantry and three divisions of cavalry.
• After that date the total number of effectives in the Army
of the States constituting Germany must not exceed one
hundred thousand men, including officers and
establishments of depots. The Army shall be devoted
exclusively to the maintenance of order within the
territory and to the control of the frontiers.
 Gwpda.org
 Appeasement:
• Giving into the demands of the aggressor in
order to keep peace
 This
policy would also apply to the
Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
• The Japanese invasion of eastern China would
be the reason Hitler took the risk of violating the
terms of Versailles since the League of Nations
only protested the action
• Appeasement is born out of the Kellogg Briand
act of forbidding war as a national policy
 Many
of the western democracies
opposed war.
 This opposition to war is known as
pacifism
 If you are paying attention to only the
PowerPoint you are probably missing
some key aspects of what is happening
 Oh yea by the way there is a discussion
about appeasement on Wednesday
 Spanish Civil War…
 Belligerents:
• Liberals (Communist, Socialist, and those who
wanted a democracy)
• Nationalist / radicals :
 Support Francisco Franco, a fascist
 Hitler
and Beni Musso support Franco and
supply him with guns and peeps
 1939 Franco would eventually win and
fascism spread further throughout the west
 Irony, western democracy believes fascism
supports communism
 Hitler
loves Austria…I wonder why?
 Anschluss
• 1938 Germany annexes Austria
• After all Austrians are Germans
 Some
Austrians do oppose annexation,
but most support it?
• Those who are opposed are quickly silenced
 Hitler
is at your door
 Czechoslovakia
• Sudetenland: Western Czech
 Hitler
believes that the Germans in W.
Czech belonged to Germany
• So he annexes them too…
 And
once again the wonderful Mr. Kerr is
just talking about how Hitler is smart and
complaining on how everyone only
copies down the notes…
1938
TIME
MAGAZINE:
PERSON OF
THE YEAR
 Finally
 Churchill
prepares for war as Hitler
invades the rest of Czech and promises to
protect Poland
 In response Hitler signs a non aggression
pact with Russia (Aug 1939), also this
allowed Hitler freedom in…
 Invaded
Sept 1 1939
 As promised Britain & France declare
War!
 Before the end of September Poland
would fall.
 German
Tactics (Blitzkrieg)
• Luftwaffe Lullaby
• Panzer Parade
• Soldier’s Shuffle
 Germany
Dominates the battlefield
• Battle of Britain
 Night bombing
• Africa
 General Erwin Rommel
 General George S. Patton
 D-Day
• Normandy Invasion
 Beaches
• Gold
• Sword
• Omaha
• Juno
• Utah
 Message from Eisenhower
• http://www.army.mil/d-day/message.html
 End
of Nazi Germany
 Holocaust
• ~12 million killed
 Yalta
Conference
• Feb. 1945
• Stalin, Churchill, FDR
• Promise to attack Japan
• Treaty would not last long