Final Acts of Appeasement
Anchluss, 1938
The Appeasers Reaction
- Versailles forbade a unification of Germany and Austria
- 1934 Dolfuss affair
- 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 wont do anything without the British
- Italy was the only objection, but Mussolini gave his approval
- Hitler to Mussolini gave his approval
- Hitler to Mussolini, "Never, never forget this, no matter what happened."
- Ethnic German area of Checholovakia where 3.5 mil. Germans lived.
- Br. P.M. Neville Chamberlain wants Czech leader, Benes to give up the sudentenland
- Hopes to prevent war
- Hitler threatens to occupy
- Mussolini steps in with a four power conference in Munich
- Benes resigns in favour of Emil Hacha who agrees to the annexation
- Neville Chamberlain proclaims "Peace in our time"
- hitler stil recognized slovak state- moved in German troops to "protect" it
- Hacha visits Hitler in March 1939- gives up Czech independence
Quote: "We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth."- Neville Chamberlain
Summary: In the later acts of appeasement Hitler decided he wanted all the German areas to be reunited. However he is not allowed to, although in the end he gets what he wants. Then Hitler wants the Czech but he is declined. Hitler threatens to invade and so they give it to him. The last straw is when Hitler invades Poland with no other motive than to widen his empire. This is when appeasement stops.
