POS 4206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Germans, Appeasement, Leninism
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League of nations self determination feelings post ww1 meeting in munich with chamberlain to discuss fate of. Sudetenland/czechslovakia if i bully them they will give me what i want. Uk could not have stopped germany re: czechslovakia at the time takes rest of czechslovakia invasion of poland - ww2 begins on western front. Hitler suspects uk is holding out for russian intervention therefore, hitler opens eastern front and invades russia path to london east through moscow before that can happen. Mussolini invades greece, hitler has to save him coup in yugoslavia overthrows pro-hitler regime (puppet) hitler takes it personally and attacks brutually. June 22 initially successful, winter comes with loss. Stalin warned by west and own men (later) hot cognition. Georgian stalin rises to the top factions in ussr communisim leninism insecurity and power for mother russia these people are the enemies of germany slavs and jews.