Hitlers Conquests to 1938

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Hitlers Conquests to 1938

• 1935 German Rearmament
• 1936 Hitler forms the Axis Powers
• March 1936 Hitler re-militarizes the Rhineland
• March 13th, 1938 Anschluss
• All Were Violations of the Treaty of Versailles

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Appeasement
Neville Chamberlain
Pacifism
Isolationism
Politically Popular
Lesser of 2 Evils
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Germans Move In
British and French inaction increase Hitler's
aggressiveness
March 1938 Anschluss
Czechoslovakia
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Munich Agreement

• Hitler wants Sudetenland
• Threatens attack Czechoslovakia
• Daladier and Chamberlain step in
• September 1938 meeting in Munich Hitler and
  Mussolini meet with Chamberlain and Daladier

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Results of Munich Agreement

• Hitler takes the Sudetenland
• Hitler promises not to seek more territory
• Chamberlain thinks the agreement brings peace
• Hitler immediately invades the rest of
  Czechoslovakia
• Czechoslovakia surrenders without a fight

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Appeasing Hitlers Aggression