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Appeasement: Poor Choice?
Neville Right NevilleNeville and Hitler
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ICYMI: Anschluss with Austria, and the
Annexation of the Sudetenland
Anschluss: March 12, 1938
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Anschluss: Austrian Germans are pleased!
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Sudetenland: September 30, 1938
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Europe almost collapses into war
• Czechoslovakia is ready to fight Germany.
• Russia promises to help Czechs.
• Some Brits, French, are ready as well.
• Germany plans Operation Green.
• Green: Invasion of Czechoslovakia
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Appeasement to the Rescue!
(Except for the Czechs)
• Enter Neville Chamberlain
• Prime Minister of Britain
• Doesn't want war (Britain's military is weak)
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So, what is appeasement?
Well, anonymous student who has access to my Smart Notebook file, I'm glad you asked!
Appeasement: the act of giving in to an enemy's demands in hopes of avoiding further conflict.
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Munich Agreementhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKAlhWFbsE
Hitler is playing Chamberlain the whole time• Chamberlain: Just the Sudetenland
• Hitler: All of it!
• Chamberlain: [...]
• Hitler: ALL OF IT I WILL KILL THE CZECHS
• Chamberlain: [!!!]
• Hitler (on phone): Ok, Sudetenland
• Chamberlain: Thank you!!!
• Hitler: >:)
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Munich Agreement
• Germany gets the Sudetenland
• Czechs are not invited to the talks
• Call it the "Munich Dictate/Betrayal"
• Hungary, Poland both bite off pieces of Czechoslovakia right after this
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Wait, really?
Yup!
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Isn't that kind of rude?
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Results: Mean cartoons!
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Germany Annexes Czechoslovakia• March 16, 1939
• Prior to Invasion, Hitler chats with Czech President.
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Hitler invites Czech President to Munich
• Göring and Hitler do everything they can to damage President Emil Hácha
• Kept waiting till 1:30 A.M.
• Over the next two hours, Hitler threatens invasion, promises to destroy Prague (like Guernica!)
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Emil Hácha has a heart attack
• 4:30 A.M., is barely able to function
• "Required numerous injections"
• Agrees to sign away Czechoslovakia
• Conclusion: Hitler is a ****!
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More timelines of sadness
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Ok, Real Conclusion
• British promise to protect Poland, treatify
• Hitler now believes that no one will stop him
• However, Russia had been thinking about the Czechs, and Hitler does not want to fight Stalin right now.
• Game recognizes game, madness recognizes madness.
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Treaty Time for Germany
• Pact of Steel: Italy+Germany (Originally included Japan, but they wanted to go after the Soviet Union)
• MolotovRibbentrop Pact: nonaggression pact between Soviet Union and Germany
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?????????
Didn't they just fight in Spain? Yup, sure did!
• Secretly also divided Poland, gave Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, parts of Romania to Russians
• Putin has publicly defended this treaty
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Lebensraum, More Info!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2qQMUIgY
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Tomorrow! Jigsaw, Blitzkrieg, and Observation
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Jigsaw Format, Stage 1Group A Group B Group C Group D
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Jigsaw Format, Stage 2