Causes of WWII

Was using Appeasement justified?

IT WAS JUSTIFIED

➢Using appeasement was correct as Chamberlin feared another war and people wanted peace so the public did not go to war and wanted to avoid it

➢Chamberlin had faith in the League of Nations to solve their problems

➢Britain was too weak to go for war in 1938, it needed time to re-arm

➢The TOV was considered unfair and that is why Chamberlin gave into the demands of Hitler

➢He feared and communism and thought that Hitler would help in destroy communism

➢He also misjudged Hitler, he said that Sudetenland was the last thing he wanted

➢USA were following isolationism so they did not want to stand up against Germany without American support

➢The depression had hit all the countries so, economic problems were a higher priority

IT WAS NOT JUSTIFIED

Ø  It let Hitler grow stronger

Ø  It humiliated Britain who were using appeasement as no other country in the world could ever trust the British support again

Ø  He mobilized his navy because he gave Czechoslovakia his assurance in 1938, but then came under the influence of Mussolini who got them both together at the Munich Agreement in which Hitler got what he wanted which was Sudetenland and eventually the whole of Czechoslovakia

Ø  It abandoned many people in the hands of the Nazis

Ø  It let Hitler achieve his aims which was to abolish the Treaty of Versailles and he was successful

Ø  The Spanish Civil War showed the strength of the German armed forces but even then they did not tell Hitler to disarm

Did the Nazi-Soviet pact start War in 1939?

Nazi-Soviet Pact

➢Hitler did not want fight a war on 2 fronts that is why he signed the pact.

➢The pact gave Hitler a direct way to attain all his aims which were:-

1.To abolish the TOV:- The TOV had not allowed Germany to enter into any of the foreign land. He broke this.

2.To attain Lebensraum:- By invading into Eastern Europe he was getting greater living space and was uniting all the Germans

3.To defeat Communism:- Even though Hitler signed a treaty with Russia he was very adamant in defeating communism and according to the map he was moving one step closer Russia

➢It was certain after Munich that Britain and France would not go for war over Poland, only the Russians would object to this so signing the treaty will clear the way for them

➢The pact secret agreements in which they decided that Poland and many more countries would be divided

Other factors

➢Appeasement:- Britain and France always gave into what Hitler wanted and that is one of the reason why War began, appeasement made Hitler more bold as he had already got through appeasement:

1.Remilitarization of Rhineland

2.Anschluss with Austria

3.Czechoslovakia

➢The failure of the League of Nations, it was unable to stop Hitler and many other conflicts

1.Spanish Civil War

2.Remilitarization of Rhineland, the TOV had forbidden this and one of the main reasons as to why the LON existed was to uphold the TOV.

3.Anschluss with Austria, the TOV had forbidden this and one of the main reasons as to why the LON existed was to uphold the TOV.

➢Militarism, the Germans were re-arming secretly and huge armed forces