Road to War -1

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Created on: 12-04-17 19:19

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Why had international peace collapsed by 1939?
- Hitler's aims -Foreign policy
  - Abolish treaty of versailles
    - Takes G out of LofN immediately
    - Vs November Criminals
  - Grossdeutschland Policy
    - Self determination
      - Austria
      - Polish corridor
      - Czech
  - Lebensraum
    - Into Russia - not colonies
    - Living Space
  - Methods
    - Gamble on guilt of Br and Fr after Versailles
    - Diplomatic stage internationally -Reasonable & avoid war
    - Gradually increase demands of Br and Fr
  - Destroy Communism
    - War w/ Russia
- 8 Steps to War: SCRAMCUP
  - Munich
    - 1938 Hitler tries to take over Sudetenland
      - Chamberlain appeased him
        Munich agreement - 29 Sept 1938
        Chamberlain gives Hitler Sudeten
  - Conscription & Re-armament
    - 1935 Hitler introduced conscription
      - Broke TofV
  - Czech
    - 15 March 1939 - Invades rest of Czech
      - People realised a war was coming
  - Saar Plebiscite, 1935
    - Saar inhabitants voted to return to Germany
  - Poland
    - April 1939 -Chamberlain - 'Polish Guarantee'
    - 1st Sept 1939 -Hitler invades
      - 3rd Sept - Br Declare War
  - Austria
    - 1938 took over
      - First Hitler wanted Austrian Nazis to join
        11 March - invasion
        
        Br & Fr do nothing
  - Rhineland
    - Hitler invaded 7 March1936
      - Had orders to retreat if any resistance
        Br & Fr do nothing
        
        Only 22,000 men
      - Broke TofV
  - USSR/Nazi Pact
    - Summer 1939 - Plans to invade Poland
      - Danzig Germans demand unification
      - Br promises to come to Poland's aid
    - August 1939 - Secret treaty w/ Russia - Stop Br & Fr invade Poland

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