1. • What has Hitler managed to
achieve by 1938?
• The policy that Britain and France followed
during this time is often referred to as ……..
• APPEASEMENT!
Appeasement is defined as ….
1. To bring peace, quiet, or calm to; soothe.
2. To satisfy or relieve: appease one's thirst.
3. To pacify or attempt to pacify (an enemy) by granting
concessions, often at the expense of principle.
Produce a two bubble maps: one of the positive sides to the
policy of Appeasement and one for the negative sides of
Appeasement.
2. Why did Britain and
France follow the policy
of Appeasement
• Learning Objectives:
• To analyse political cartoons regarding the policy of
Appeasement
• To find out what happened regarding Hitler and the
Sudetenland
OM Competences:
Teamwork – analysing cartoons
as a team
Reasoning – justifying why
Appeasement was right/wrong
3. Why did Britain and France
follow the policy of
Appeasement
Can you explain why they followed
Appeasement using these headings:
Military reasons
Economic reasons
Fear
Public opinion
12. What Happened next
with Hitler and Europe?
• After Hitler successfully achieved Anschluss with
Austria and the lack of resistance from Britain and
France thus far gave Hitler confidence of achieving
more of his original goals…..
• Explain what happened regarding Czechoslovakia
in no more than 10 sentences
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWappeasement.h
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• You can use page 56 -59 to help you
13. The Times
• Add to your table of Hitler’s actions in the 1930s
• Can you come up with newspaper headlines from
a:
• British Newspaper
• German Newspaper
• Czech Newspaper
14. Was the Munich Agreement a
success or failure for Chamberlain?
Positives Negatives
16. The Nazi- Soviet Pact
• On March 15th 1938 Hitler marched his troops into the rest of
Czechoslovakia
• Britain and France once again did nothing about this.
• This was no longer an action Hitler could justify as rectifying the
TOV – this was an invasion
• His logical next step would be Poland
• Hitler did not fear Britain and France, he actually was more
worried about USSR- USSR had long been worried about Hitler
as he had made no secret of his desire o expand Germany to
the east
• Stalin had tried to enter agreements with GB and France in
the 1930s – Britain’s lack of resistence to Hitler worried Stalin
and felt GB were happy for Germany to et stronger as it
protected Europe from Communism
• The Munich Agreement in 1938 increased Stalin’s fears of
Britain backing Hitler + Britain protecting Poland
18. Continued….
• 24th Aug 1939 Stalin signs agreement with Hitler
• This due to lack of faith in GB, fear of Hitler, desire for
parts of Poland
• 1st Sept Germany invades Poland
• 2nd September – GB and France declare war on
Germany.
• Hitler never expected GB to go to war at this point
and his German army were not fully prepared for
this
