Treaty of Versailles and Policy of Appeasement

The source suggests that Hitler was able to achieve his foreign policy aims
because of the failure of European leaders of democracies such as Britain and
France to oppose his actions. This is inferred by the representation of these
leaders as being ‘spineless’ and the illustration of Hitler, walking to power by
stepping over their backs. Britain and France both made no substantive
attempt to stop the German remilitarisation of the Rhineland in 1936 which
is labelled as a key ‘step’ in this cartoon. This was despite the fact that at
this point Hitler knew and feared that he did not yet have the military
strength to fight the allies if they made a military intervention to stop this
action.

The sources show Hitler could not be trusted and that British policy was
helping and encouraging him. we can see that he has already shot the
democratic Weimar Republic and mounted his head and has done the
same for the TOV. There is a nice detail that TOV is the most formidable
prize. The tall and weak looking member of the British Government and
the cowardly looking British lion shows the British Government being weak
and cowardly in its dealing with Germany.
The small guy represents the Prime minister of Britain who only has a few
lollypops and is surrounded by threating Nazi sea monsters. It looks like the
main in the middle is giving all he can in order to keep the sea monsters from
attacking him; the appeaser is trying to please the Nazi monsters from killing
him. As Hitler was annexing lands, Britain and France used the policy of
appeasement, figuring that rather than fight they would let Hitler "just take one
more" and there would be peace. Yet this only made him more aggressive
and determined. As in the cartoon, the creature offers the monsters "just one
more" and they can all settle down and be peaceful. Obviously from the look
of the monsters, this will not happen showing the act of appeasement is
unsuccessful and will lead to more aggression.

Hitler’s Expansionist Policy

Hitler clearly broke a term of the Treaty of Versailles. The picture
shows the massive army after Hitler’s withdrawal from the League of
Nations. He began to build up Germany’s military with an army of
550,000 men and 2500 planes. Hitler justified his actions by
emphasising these actions as defensive acts. This allowed countries
like Britain and France to not take decisive action to not risk another
war. Britain even signed the Anglo-German agreement which allowed
for a navy to be built. This gave Germany a chance to prepare for war
which led to the invasion of many countries thus leading to WW2.

Germany and USSR signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression act.

They would not attack each other. The Pact divided Eastern
Europe into Soviet and German spheres of influence. Poland was
also divided between them. Hitler hoped that the pact would a two
front war for Germany. It benefitted the USSR as it perceived the
west as inciting Hitler to attack the USSR. Thus it gave the USSR
some breathing space to build up its military strength in event of a
possible war with Germany. The pact allowed Germany to invade
countries while keeping Russia at bay.
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Under the influence of the Nazi Party in Sudetenland, the Germans

in this area demanded to be part of Germany. The Czech leader
called upon its allies who had promised to support them if attacked.
However, the allies followed a policy of appeasement and were
unwilling to intervene. They signed the Munich Agreement with
Germany and Italy in 1938. They agreed to give Sudetenland to
Hitler, in exchange for Hitler’s promise not to invade other lands. In
1938, Hitler invaded Sudetenland and in 1939 Hitler took over the
entire Czechoslovakia. However, Britain and France did not take
action on this and only warned to declare war if they invaded
Poland. This further caused them to appear less powerful and
motivated Hitler to continue invading other lands.