Weak Nations (contributions of other nations)

Question 1

Weak international system

Answer 1

Allowed Hitler to gain power during 1930s ; absence of US due to isolationist policy ; deliberately didn’t get involved
Absence of USSR - consolidating dictatorship STALIN so out of European affairs
League of nations was weak and ineffective ; no military body to enforce its decisions
Britain refused to cooperate with communism

Question 2

Weakness of League of Nations

Answer 2

Seen as weak as the Treaty or Versailles wasn’t enforced either
The idea of universal consent rather than majority rule - very bureaucratic
Wall Street Crash of 1929 ; led to growing disinterest in the League
No military strength ; Japan and Italy
Failure to intervene with Manchuria n impotence to resolve conflicts - just exit the league - Italy left too and left with France and Britain

Question 3

Reasons for appeasement

Answer 3

Pacifism after destruction of WW1 ; furthered by the impact of the Great Depression
Many thought Versailles had been too punitive and Hitler should be allowed to overturn Versailles
Britain and France has not re-armed and they needed more time to prepare for a war

Question 4

Examples of policy of appeasement

Answer 4

Britain followed appeasement when Hitler remilitarised the Rhineland saying that “Germany was only marching into its own back yard”
Anschluss - Britain and France did not stop Germany after annexing Austria ; direct violation of TOV
Munich Agreement - after Sudetenland invasion in 1938 he met with Chamberlain ; he promised he wouldn’t invade Czechoslovakia but he went back on his word

Question 5

Impact of appeasement

Answer 5

Chamberlain was weak ; Britain and France gave Hitler the confidence to pursue a more bellicose foreign policy NEGATIVE
Allowed Britain and France to rearm and after Munich agreement they got radar etc - POSITIVE

Question 6

Punitive meaning

Answer 6

Deliberately harsh punishment

Question 7

Rise of fascism strengthened Germany’s position?

Answer 7

Italy formed pact of steel in 1939
Spanish civil war was won by a fascist dictator Franco and Hitler and Mussolini worked together in the war - dictatorship

Question 8

Spanish civil war

Answer 8

1936-1939