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Appeasement
Munich Conference
• British, French, German and Italian
representatives
• Reached an agreement to allow Hitler
to have his demands
• Hitler got Sudetenland and the
Czechs were abandoned by the west.
• Neville Chamberlain – Prime
Minister of Britain claimed he had
negotiated “Peace for our time”
Winston Churchill
– Great Britain
Sudeten
Woman
Unable to
conceal
her misery
as she
salutes
Hitler
motorcade
Hitler Invades Poland
• Hitler demanded the Polish port of Danzig
• Great Britain offered to protect Poland
• France & Britain tried to negotiate a deal with Soviets to protect
Poland
Poland Destroyed
German soldiers march through
Warsaw, Poland.
• German Blitzkrieg – THE BLITZ
“lightning war” using
armored columns called
panzer divisions with air
support
• Panzer Tanks = 300 per division
• Sept. 1939 - In 4 weeks, Poland
Surrenders, then…
• April 1940 – Denmark, Norway,
Yugoslavia
• May 1940 – Netherlands,
Belgium and then France!
German Stuka dive-bombers fly over Yugoslavia during the
German invasion of Yugoslavia, which began on
April 6, 1941.
Dunkirk