Appeasement

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  • Period: to

    Michel foot

    co-author of guilty men and Labour Party leader 1980-83 , editor of the evening standard 1942, labour MP 1945

  • National government wins general election

    Ramsay macdonald become PM

  • Hitler become chancellor

  • World disarmament conference

    Event aimed at reducing global armaments = failure
  • Period: to

    Appeasement

  • White paper on defence calling for rearmament

  • Stanley Baldwin PM

    general election November

  • Hitler annonced rearmament and conscription

    1 year after appeasement

  • beginning of Spanish civil war

    Conflict involving fascists

  • German troops invaded the Rhineland

  • Neville Henderson British ambassador to Germany

    replaces sir Eric Philips

  • Halifax / Hitler meeting

    Meeting discussing anglo-german relations

  • Anthony Eden resignation

  • NC meeting with Hitler

  • Germany annexed Austria

  • Anschluss

    Annexation of Austria by nazi germany

  • Munich conference / agreement

    to discuss Czechoslovakia = permitted nazi to annex it for the sake of peace

  • NC returned to England after the Anglo-German declaration to commit peace

    come from Munich agreement
    Anglo-German declaration = agreement promoting peace between UK and Germany

  • Hitler set his sights on Sudetenland

  • German troop march into Prague

    polish guarentee = uk commitment to defend Poland against agression 30 march

  • NC / Halifax visit to Mussolini

  • Germany attacked Poland

  • France and Great Britain declared war on Germany

  • Publication of Guilty men

    book criticizing appeasement policies of British leaders victor gollancz : publisher

  • Death of NC

  • Invasion of NL, Belgium and France

    Churchill PM

  • Churchill PM