Appeasement and German Aggression

Appeasement

German Rearmament

• Review of German Troops, 1939.

German Aggression

• Germany in 1933.
  • Remilitarized in 1936.
  • Annexed in 1938.
  • Satellite states, March 1939.
  • Conquered by Germany in September 1939.
  • Annexed by Soviet Union in September 1939.
• Map of German Aggression 1936-1939:
  • Key locations and events:
  • DENMARK
  • North Sea
  • NETHERLANDS
  • RUHR
  • Dunkirk
  • Cologne
  • BELGIUM
  • RHINELAND
  • Hamburg
  • Bremen
  • Weser
  • SWEDEN
  • Berlin
  • Oder
  • GERMANY
  • Baltic Sea
  • ESTONIA
  • Riga
  • LATVIA
  • Annexed by Germany, March 1939
  • Memel
  • SOVIET
  • LITHUANIA
  • Vilnius
  • UNION
  • Minsk
  • Danzig
  • EAST
  • PRUSSIA
  • WHITE RUSSIA
  • Vistala
  • Pinsk
  • Warsaw
  • Brest-Litovsk
  • POLAND
  • LUXEMBOURG
  • SULETENLAN
  • Prague
  • SAAR
  • Ceded by plebiscite, 1935
  • BOHEMIA
  • SUDETENLAND
  • Nuremberg
  • Danube
  • CZECHOSLOVAKIA
  • MORAVIA
  • FRANCE
  • SWITZERLAND
  • Munich
  • Vienna
  • AUSTRIA
  • Dnieper
  • SLOVAKIA
  • To Hungary, March 1939
  • Budapest
  • HUNGARY
  • RUTHENIA
  • ITALY
  • German Aggression 1936-1939
  • ROMANIA
  • Danube

The Munich Agreement

• Chamberlain and Hitler at the Munich Agreement.

Further German Aggression

• Polish city of Wieluń after German bombing September 1, 1939.

Central Historical Question

• Was appeasement the right policy for England in 1938?