HIST 1200 Lecture Notes - Lend-Lease, Tripartite Pact, Atlantic Charter
Document Summary
The onset of war: blitzkrieg, battle of britain, australian anschluss, appeasement, nazi-soviet alliance, nazi aggression and war in europe. Hitler negotiated with soviet premier joseph stalin offering. In 1938, he bullied austria into accepting incorporation into the nazi third reich. British p. m. neville chamberlain offered hitler sudetenland if he agreed to leave the rest of czechoslovakia alone. Hitler agreed then conquered czechoslovakia the following year. concessions in exchange for stalin"s promise that he would refrain from joining britain and france in opposing germany"s invasion of poland. Denmark, norway, belgium, and netherlands, luxembourg and france. European empire stretching from poland to france. would never surrender to hitler. New british p. m. winston churchill vowed that britain, unlike france, At dawn sept. 1, 1939 hitler unleashed the blitzkrieg on poland then: from neutrality to the arsenal of democracy, revising neutrality: Congress revised the neutrality legislation in nov "39 to allow belligerent nations to buy arms on a cash-and-carry basis.
