Responses to Military Aggression In the 1930s, European governments took actions to appease Hitler and Mussolini. The best way to sum up the policies and actions of the European governments is the word “Appeasement”. There are several reasons for governments’ actions of appeasement toward Hitler and Mussolini. These reasons are: no country wanted a war, the Great Depression had devastating effects on each country, and there was a lot of political turmoil and chaos amongst the European governments. Colin Walker, Lawson Walker, Grady Castriota Account for the responses of the European democracies to Account for the responses of the European democracies to the military aggression by Italy and Germany in the 1930s. the military aggression by Italy and Germany in the 1930s.
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Responses to Military Aggression
In the 1930s, European governments took actions to appease Hitler and Mussolini. The best way to sum up the policies and actions of the European governments is the word “Appeasement”. There are several reasons for governments’ actions of appeasement toward
Hitler and Mussolini. These reasons are: no country wanted a war, the Great Depression had devastating effects on each country, and there was a lot of political turmoil and chaos amongst the European
governments.
Colin Walker, Lawson Walker, Grady Castriota
Account for the responses of the European democracies to Account for the responses of the European democracies to the military aggression by Italy and Germany in the 1930s.the military aggression by Italy and Germany in the 1930s.
We Don’t Want Another War!• In the aftermath of WWI• 22.5 million KIA, WIA, or MIA• Devastating effects on morale and view towards war• Treaty of Versailles-harsh punishment of Germany, impossible
demands on German economy, Germany could not have a large army
• French lived in fear of the day Germany would recover
•Because nobody wanted another world war, European democracies responded to German and Italian military aggression by attempts to appease Hitler and Mussolini
We Don’t Want Another War!
• Afraid of huge loss of life on Western Front caused Britain to be afraid of another huge war and more lives lost
• Civilians scared of German bombing raids
• Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister after 1937, became chief architect of appeasement policy– 1938-Munich Pact (gave Hitler
permission to invade Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia)
– 1939-Britian said it would support Poland if Germany invaded-Germany invaded anyways
Britain
We Don’t Want Another War!
• Passivism was growing in the west and it had roots in France• Like Britain, a huge loss of life on the Western Front in WWI caused
France to be afraid of another war and more casualties• Political chaos, unstable government
France
The Economy Can’t Handle a War!
• Expenses of WWI: by 1919 European nations were in debt to the U.S. by $10,000,000,000.
• Britain was depending on her colonies for essential war materials• Germany finished paying off reparations of WWI and WWII in
October 2010• New taxes were created to boost the war effort• Britain had a lot of money invested in American stocks in an effort to
try and raise money to pay off post war expenses
Still Recovering From WWI
The Economy Can’t Handle a War!
• Britain was borrowing heavily on Wall Street• October 29, 1929-Stock Market Crashes• Overall GDP drastically drops across Europe• Hyperinflation in Germany (4.2 trillion Marks to the dollar)• Governments focused on raising taxes and cutting government
expenditures • The thought of trying to finance another war was too much for
European nations to think about during the Great Depression
Great Depression
The Economy Can’t Handle a War!More effects of the Great Depression
•Unemployment caused by the G.D. helped contribute to the rise of dictatorships across the world and gave way to leaders such as Hitler and Mussolini as they promised to lead their people out of the tough times
•25 countries became dictatorships from 1929-1939
•Policies of European countries mainly focused on recovering their economies instead of keeping dictators like Hitler and Mussolini out of power
•Britain and France could not afford to go against Hitler or Mussolini-it was not in their best interests at the time
Turmoil in Politics!France
•From 1919 to 1940, France was governed by two main groupings. The right-center Bloc National (wanted revenge against Germany & economic prosperity) and the left-center Cartel des Gauches (anti-clerical & represented small business and lower middle class – essentially Socialist)•Street violence between the two groups were frequent
Georges Clemenceau
Édouard Herriot
Turmoil in Politics!
France• Governments came and
went quickly• General Strikes in 1936 in
the working industry • Any attempt to radically
alter policy would almost certainly lead to the fall of the sitting government (as happened in September of 1939, when France declared war over the German invasion of Poland).
We Don’t Want Another War! (Politics in Great Britain)
• During the mid-to-late 1930s the UK (as well as other nations across the globe) attempted to bring a sense of national unity
• Before WWII, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain led his Cabinet and a Conservative majority in the Commons
• Chamberlain promised peace by way of appeasement, despite Hitler’s naked aggression throughout Europe
Turmoil in Politics!• Civil Wars in Spain and
China during the 1930s distracted Britain and France from Hitler (Germany) and Mussolini (Italy)
• Spain– Experienced a Civil War
from July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939
• China– April 1927 - December
1936
Our FINAL Words…
• One Response: Appeasement – Appeasement: avoiding war by making concessions to another
power• Avoidance of a second Great War
– Simply, people didn’t believe war was a necessary element of diplomatic cooperation with the abundant amount of deaths in WWI
• Economy = Great Depression– Cost of rearmament and war was seen as too damaging to the
economies of European nations during the 1930s (notably France and Great Britain)
• Politics were unstable throughout Europe during the 1930s– Any attempt to radically alter policy would almost certainly lead to
the fall of the sitting government
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