Flashcards: Path to War: Appeasement and Expansion — 10 cartões

German Expansion Achievements

Remilitarised Rhineland, annexed Austria, expanded army.

Remilitarisation of Rhineland — significance?

Violated Versailles; challenged France's security.

Appeasement policy — purpose?

Avoid war by conceding to Hitler’s demands.

Anschluss — meaning?

Annexation of Austria into Germany.

Sudetenland — importance?

Strategic region with resources and defenses, vital for Hitler.

Sudetenland — strategic importance?

Resources, defenses, border region with Germans.

Appeasement — policy aim?

Avoid war through concessions to Hitler.

Munich Agreement — outcome?

Gave Sudetenland to Germany without war.

Breakdown of appeasement — event?

Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, 1939.

Polish Guarantee — significance?

Britain and France promised security, shifted policies.