Collective Security Dbq Essay

Britain, France and Italy believed that Hitler would keep his word after this appeasement and wouldn’t try to take over any other land. Their continuous appeasement did not solve anything, and Hitler’s Nazi Party kept accumulating more and more lands, creating more problems. William Shirer stated, “His waiting ten short days has saved Europe from a world war,” (Doc. 4), but this is not true, since this appeasement only postponed the war, and let the Nazi Party gain more power. This is a simple example of how appeasement was not

The Treaty of Versailles caused World War II by taking much of Germany’s land. It took away important parts of land including Alsace, Lorraine, and the Polish Corridor, losing 40% of their coal production (Doc A). Because of this, Hitler stated in his book, Mein Kampf, “No nation can remove this hand from its throat except by the sword” (Doc A). This shows that from the beginning, Hitler had a militaristic stance of fixing their problems. He

To add on, Hitler gets two allies which allied Germany with Italy and the second one allied Germany and Japan. From this one could infer that Hitler is taking the fact that they lost land into a good thing so France or any other country doesn’t think they are intimidated.

Recently at Rockville high school a 14 year old girl was raped by two older kids in the bathroom. Because of this incident, Montgomery County has realized how poor the security is in each school. They are enforcing new rules to make the schools more secure. I agree with the new change in security because some schools might not have security cameras or guards to protect the school. But, some people also don’t agree with the new rules.

Britain and France made the tough call to give away the Sudetenland to the Nazis the not only save valuable resources but soldiers lives along with innocent civilians who would have been injured or even killed during the fighting. Although It was France and Britain defending Czechoslovakia it was really only Britain because France had already been taken over by the Nazi regime. The allies knew that giving Hitler the Sudetenland would just slow him down and he would want more but they(allies) figured that the amount of time it would take him to get through the allies could rebuild their army and regroup and get a new strategy. Although it was called peace with honor there was no honor because Britain and France broke their treaty agreement and

Beginning in the mid 1930’s, Adolf Hitler along with his Nazi party rose to power alongside an army of massive proportions despite the fact that Germany was on strict limitations following world war I. Shortly after the ending of world war I, Woodrow Wilson’s ‘Treaty of Versailles’ stated that Germany would be held accountable for ‘the Great war’, meaning not only was Germany forced to pay reparations for war debt, but, under the treaty, Germany was restricted to many limitations. Wilson’s treaty consisted of fourteen major guidelines stating Germany must retreat from all land annexed that were not Germanic states, and Germany was prohibited to form a mobile army, air force, or Kriegsmarine. Despite the ‘Treaty of Versailles of 1919’, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime pursued exactly what the treaty clearly stated they were completely forbidden to do and somehow without a single shot being fired by Great Britain, the United States, France, or the Soviet Union.

In fact, because of that skill, he was able to negotiate annexing of Rhineland and Czechoslovakia into

The allied United States, Canada, United Kingdom and France didn't believe that Adolf Hitler was a real threat so they allowed him to have his way. Adolf Hitler refused to continue to pay the reparations that were set out in the Treaty of Versailles. This should have been one of the first steps in realising Hitler was a terrible person. Hitler said he was stopping the payments because he wanted to build industries in Germany. He built industries that mostly manufactured war machines like his Stuka bombers. The purpose of the Treaty of Versailles was to prevent Germany from becoming a superpower again, with no allies looking over Germany’s back they rebuilt Germany and all its armies. The German Army was only supposed to operate on its own soil but they were present in the Spanish Civil War. Hitlers Stuka dive bombers operated in the Spanish Civil War.(HistoryNet) This is yet another act of appeasement by the Allies that allowed Nazi Germany to steamroll western Europe. Germany also took land back and remilitarized the Rhineland which was designated as demilitarised zone. They annexed the Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia that was ethnically German and German speaking. These were met with many responses thinking that Hitler may have went to far. So Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hopped on a Plane and went to negotiate with Germany in the Sudetenland. He

In the history of international politics, France and Britain’s foreign policy towards Germany at the start of World War 2 was appeasement. Hitler was pushing to take over Czechoslovakia. Both France and Britain were not willing to defend Czechoslovakia and instead signed what is now known as the Munich Agreement. This gave Hitler and his armies the go ahead to completely occupy the Sudetenland.

Among many academic scholars world wide, World War II is commonly referred to as “Hitler’s War”. Hitler’s personal experiences with the economic depression, being in battle during WWI, and seeing Germany be humiliated by the Treaty of Versailles all contributed to his ultimate dream of making Germany in to the greatest empire the world has ever known. Hitler knew that war was the key to Germany becoming the greatest empire on Earth from the very beginning, but the blame can not fall entirely on to Hitler. There was more an enough evidence before the war broke out that Hitler would be a menace to peace in Europe, to this effect Britain, France, and the United States all bear the weight of blame. Had the allies been able to rally together troops

Hitler wanted all nations in Europe that were German speaking to be a part of Germany. He made designs to make Austria a part of Germany again. The treaty of Versailles didn’t allow Germany, and Austria to be unified. Hitler also wanted Sudetenland because they were German speaking and to his benefit it bordered with Austria. The Czechoslovakia rejects Hitler's request. Czech gets Britain and France to help so they had the Munich Conference

However, we all know how Hitler loved to break the rules, ignoring the Treaty, he started to increase the size of the German army to more than half a million men. Hitler’s clever tactics never let the world knew what he was up to, until he announced it to everyone by March 1935. Britain and France were in the fear of another major war so that’s why they kept their mouths shut and gave permission to let him increase his army. Hitler had already clearly stated both in his speeches and his book, “Mein Kampf” he would break the inequitable terms of the Treaty Of Versailles which meant that he already would have studied and made plans of how to overcome his hurdles. Even though, if Britain and France had tried stopping or preventing him from rearming Germany they wouldn’t be able to because everything was done in private.

Hitler demanded that Poland let Germany have the piece of land contains the former Danzig. When Poland refused, they asked Britain and France for help. But Hitler knew that he was able to face war but Britain and France weren’t. The countries turned to Russia for assistance in stopping Hitler. But Stalin made an agreement with Hitler saying that they wouldn’t fight each other and they could both share parts of Poland. Hitler then made attacks with airplanes, and tanks on Poland without any warning in different parts of Poland. Which they weren’t ready for. Hitler was able to annex part of Poland.

In adapting the policy Hitler gained confidence, in that his goal for ‘Lebensraum’ would be reached without great conflict. When nothing was done when Hitler announced rearmament of Nazi Germany it opened the way for complete rearmament in preparation for War. Appeasement allowed for Hitler to begin his plans leading up for World War Two giving him an advantage. In the time the policy of appeasement was active Hitler had achieved rearmament, re-occupation of the Rhineland, gaining allies with Mussolini and General Franco who all had simular ideologies. Hitler had also gained the Sudentland. Hitler and Nazi Germany gained all this with little resistance. It was when Hitler invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia and threatened the invasion of Poland that appeasement ended and war begun. Although this is only with Hindsight it would have been impossible to predict Hitler’s future moves.

“The strongest military power in Europe.” On April 2, 1936, this haunting description of the strength of Nazi Germany was made by Louis Maurin, the French Minister of War at the time (Deist). 18 years earlier, the allied powers had crippled German military strength, limited the size of her standing army to 100,000 men, prohibited the manufacturing of arms, and virtually liquidated the German Navy and Air Force after their defeat in World War I (Britannica). For years, Germany and her people suffered under devastating financial crises and debilitating terms stipulated in the Treaty of Versailles. As frustration and a hunger for change swept across the nation, a young and charismatic orator by the name of Adolf Hitler began to gather support in cities and “beerhalls” across the country (Kershaw). As his power grew, Hitler began to disregard regulations set into place by the Treaty of Versailles, testing Britain and France’s will to intervene (Deist). By defying the military restrictions imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, Adolf Hitler solidified his position as the supreme ruler of Germany’s Third Reich.