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Nazi-Soviet pact, with Munich Agreement
Term | Definition |
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Nazi-Soviet Pact: Causes? | USSR’s meetings with Britain and France took too long- 6 weeks- and the negotiations ended in failure. |
Nazi-Soviet Pact: Excuses? | Hitler wanted an ally to flank Poland. Stalin wanted to avert a war with Germany but wanted Poland as well. |
Nazi-Soviet Pact: What happened? | On 23 August, 1939, the world was shocked when, suddenly, Russia and Germany signed a 'Non-aggression Pact', to trade resources for 10 years. Sep. 1 1939, Germany attacked Poland. Sep. 17, 1939, USSR then attacked from the east. |
Nazi-Soviet Pact: When? | On 23 August, 1939 |
Nazi-Soviet Pact: Characters & Roles? | Ribbentrop (to meet Stalin to negotiate), Molotov (negotiator as well), Hitler, Stalin, Lord Halifax |
Nazi-Soviet Pact: Achievements? | Unite with strong powers, gained ally to flank Poland |
Nazi-Soviet Pact: What did it prove to the Allies? | Hitler cannot be trusted anymore. He must be stopped. |
Nazi-Soviet Pact: Secret Protocols? | To share Poland (split in half), to divide eastern Europe with USSR gaining control of the Baltic Sea. Agreeing to 'spheres of influence' in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Poland. |
Czechoslovakia: Causes? | Edouard Daladier and Chamberlain let Hitler have parts of the Sudetenland |
Czechoslovakia: Excuses? | Hitler ‘regretted the previously arranged terms from the Munich Agreement in1938 |
Czechoslovakia: What happened PART 1? | 30 Sep., 1938, Munich Agreement to give parts of the Sudetenland. On 15 March 1939, German troops marched into Czechoslovakia. They took over Bohemia, and established a protectorate over Slovakia. Czechoslovakia: What happened PART 2? |
Czechoslovakia: When? | 15 March 1939 |
Czechoslovakia: Characters & Roles? | Chamberlain, and Hitler |
Czechoslovakia: Achievements? | Expand German Territory |
Czechoslovakia: What did it prove to the Allies? | It proved that Hitler had been lying at Munich. It showed that Hitler was not just interested in a 'Greater Germany' (the Czechs were not Germans). |
Pact of Steel | Alliance between Germany and Italy. Signed by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini on May 22, 1939, it formalized the 1936 Rome-Berlin Axis agreement, linking the two countries politically and militarily |