HSTR 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Great Purge, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Appeasement
22 Jan 2017
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British had no formal legal government over the sudetenland. Publicly chamberlain is popular; hopeful because is he hoping that germany would act as a peaceful state. 1939 march: hitler takes the remainder of czechoslovakia. Britain and france pledged to help out czech if germany would attack again: britain and france do not uphold their promise due to the process that germany invades, slovakia becomes a german puppet state. Sudetenland was czech"s only defence frontier- lost, cannot put up a fight militarily. Hitler seems to reach the conclusion that the other states are just all talk, no one is standing up to him. Hope was that these promises would scare" germany- hitler keeps calling their bluffs. June 1939: talks between britain and france to bring in the ussr, an alliance: not perused with any vigor because no one highly regards the ussr- believed to be weak.
