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_“I have secured peace in our time” - Neville Chamberlain
“My sizing up of the man as I saw and talked with him was that he was the sort who truly loves his fellow man….”- P.M. King on Hitler
“We must…seek to keep this part of the Continent free from unrest…Nothing can be gained by creating an internal problem in an effort to meet an international one”
- P.M. King about Jewish refugees
“My sizing up of the man as I saw and talked with him was that he was the sort who truly loves his fellow man….”- P.M. King on Hitler
“We must…seek to keep this part of the Continent free from unrest…Nothing can be gained by creating an internal problem in an effort to meet an international one”
- P.M. King about Jewish refugees
Summary
The importance is that appeasement let Germans do get stronger and caused WW2.
_The Policy of Appeasement
_-Germany became more and more aggressive in Europe in the 1930s
-The Western democracies adopted a policy of appeasement to prevent war
-This gave Hitler concessions in order to stop a war
-He began with his annexation of Austria (Anschluss)
-Then takeover of the Sudentenland in Czechoslovakia
-After this a conference held in Munich where Hitler decares “This is his last territorial claim”
-He then took over the rest of Czech.
-Finally he invaded Poland in Sept. of 1939 beginning WWII
-The Western democracies adopted a policy of appeasement to prevent war
-This gave Hitler concessions in order to stop a war
-He began with his annexation of Austria (Anschluss)
-Then takeover of the Sudentenland in Czechoslovakia
-After this a conference held in Munich where Hitler decares “This is his last territorial claim”
-He then took over the rest of Czech.
-Finally he invaded Poland in Sept. of 1939 beginning WWII
_Isolationists and the Road to World War II
__-The League of Nations had failed to act in Manchuria when the Japanese invaded
-Failed to act in Abysinnia when Italy attacked
-Americans remained out, Japanese dropped out, as did Germany
-Canada followed a policy of isolationism (remaining out of world affairs) during the 1930s
-Failed to act in Abysinnia when Italy attacked
-Americans remained out, Japanese dropped out, as did Germany
-Canada followed a policy of isolationism (remaining out of world affairs) during the 1930s
_P.M. King visits Adolf Hitler, 1937
_-Anxious to find out Hitler’s intentions King went to Berlin to meet Hitler
-He was overwhelmed by what he saw and naively stated Hitler had “no warlike intentions”
-He also overlooked the Nazi persecution of the Jews
-He was overwhelmed by what he saw and naively stated Hitler had “no warlike intentions”
-He also overlooked the Nazi persecution of the Jews