Final Acts of Appeasement
Anchluss, 1938
- Versailles forbade a unification of Germany and Austria - 1934 Dolfuss affair (Nazi assassination of Austrian Chancellor - 1938 Hitler called on new Chancellor Schuschnigg to resign - Leader of Austria Nazi party Seyss-Inquart becomes new Chancellor - March 1938 German troops roll into Austria - Plebiscite is held: 99.75 vote in favour of unification The Appeasers' Reaction - British do nothing and warn Schuschnigg not to cause trouble - The French won't do anything without the British - Italy was the only objection but Mussolini gave his approval - Hitler, Mussolini, "Never, never, forget this, no matter what happened." The Sudentenland - Ethnic German area of Czechoslovakia where 3.5 mi. Germans lived - British P.M. Neville Chamberlain wants Czech leader, Benes to give up the Sudentenland - Hopes to prevent war - Hitler threatens to occupy Neville Chamberlain and the Munich Agreement - Mussonlini steps in with a four power conference in Munich - Benes resigns in favour of Emil Hacha wo agrees to the annexation - Neville Chamberlain proclaims "Peace in our Time" - Hitler still recognized Slovak state - moved in German troops to "protect" it - Hacha visits Hitler in March 1939 - Gives up Czech independence |
All of the appeasement acts had come to bite the allied powers in the butt. New deals are signed to try and fix things.
"We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will."
- Neville Chamberlain What if the Munich Agreement hadn't been signed? |