Chronology and Introduction

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Chronology and Introduction

• 28 June, 1919 Versailles
• 24 October, 1929 The Crash
• September, 1931 Japan invades Manchuria
• 30 January, 1933 Chancellor Hitler
• 3 October, 1935 Abyssinian Crisis
• 7 March, 1936 Rhineland Remilitarized
• 1 November, 1936 Rome-Berlin Axis
• July, 1937 Japan/China War
• 12/3 March, 1938 Anschluss
• September, 1938 Chamberlain/Hitler 3 Times
• 29 September Munich Conference
• October, 1938 Sudetenland
• 15 March, 1939 Prague
• 30 March, 1939 Polish Guarantee
• 7 April, 1939 Annexation of Albania
• 22 May, 1939 Pact of Steel
• 1 September, 1939 Invasion of Poland
• 3 September, 1939 Britain Declares War

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Five Major Points

• Long Term Causes
• Short Term Causes
• Immediate Causes
• Guilty Men?
• Policy of Necessity?

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• Long Term
• Versailles
• Borders
• Reparations
• Crash
• Economy
• Instability
• Third Reich

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• Short Term
• Open German Rearmament
• Abyssinia/Ethiopia
• Rhineland
• Rome/Berlin Axis
• Gentlemens Agreement

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• Immediate
• Anschluss
• Czechoslovakia
• Chamberlain
• Munich
• Sudetenland
• Prague
• Albania
• Pact of Steel
• Poland

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• Guilty Men?
• Churchill
• Eden
• Rearmament

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• Policy of Necessity?
• Chamberlain
• Economy
• Aversion to War
• Trust

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• Wrap Up
• Not inevitable
• Long/Short/Immediate
• Guilty?
• Necessity?
• Churchill

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3 September, 1939
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4 June, 1940
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18 June, 1940