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Topic 2: Events - Coggle Diagram

- - - - renegotiated reparations in the Dawes Plan (1924) and Young Plan (1929)
        
        Dawes Plan - Big lending cycle between the USA, France/UK, Germany
        
        Young Plan - Extended time for and reduced reparation payments
      - Achieved diplomatic success with the Locarno Pact (1925), The Treaty of Berlin(1926) and Germany's admission to the League of Nations (1926)
        
        Locarno Pact - guaranteed Germany's border to Belgium and France
        
        Britain and Italy committed themselves to help to repel any armed aggression across the frontier.
        
        Treaty of Berlin - USSR and Germany pledged neutrality in an outbreak of war
        
        League Rejoining - a great honor for Germany to be considered an equal power alongside the First World War victors.
  - - - 1.) Guarantees of inspection and review in Germany
      - 2.) Start of an international peace keeping force
    - - Came at the height of the Great Depression
      - Came as Japan attacked China (1931)
- - - - Italian forces should control strategic points,
      - Italian farmers should settle in Albania with the rights of Albanian citizens
      - a customs union should be introduced
    - - By 1:30 PM, all ports were in Italian hands
  - - - "On October 2, 1935, Benito Mussolini announced his intention to invade Ethiopia on a false pretext. Ethiopia, an African country, also called Abyssinia, was ruled by an emperor or Negus named Haile Selassie I. A Christian of the Coptic rite, like the majority of his subjects, he flattered himself with the myth of descending from the Queen of Sheba and the King of Israel Solomon"
    - - undermined the credibility of the League of Nations
      - encouraged fascist Italy to ally itself with Nazi Germany
      - marked the withdrawal of Italy from the League of Nations and it’s diplomatic, political and strategic realignment with Nazi Germany.
- - - - People had actually fled here to escape Nazi rule
  - - - Schusschnigg wants to have a plebicite but Hitler will not allow it
        
        Instead threatens an invasion
        
        Schusschnigg steps down on the same day as the Nazis invade
        
        Hitler holds a Plebiscite after the invasion with a resounding 99.7% confirmation of his move
  - - - 1.) Unite
        
        3.2 Million germans lived in Czechoslovakia
        
        Fit in with "Gross Deutschland"
      - 2.) Hatred
        
        Hitler hated the multi-ethnic success of Czechoslovakia
        
        Hates Slavs because he thinks they are "inferior creatures"
      - 3.) Fear
        
        Czechoslovakia has an excellent military and high mountains (great strategic defenses
        
        Czechoslovakia wanted alliances between Russia and France
      - 4.) Greed
        
        Czechoslovakia was very well developed
        
        Industrial heartland in the middle of Europe
    - - Berchtesgaden
        
        Chamberlain immediately gives in to Hitler's demand to give him areas of Czechoslovakia that are over 50% German
      - Bad Godesberg
        
        Hitler wants ll of the the Sudetenland and to break u Czechoslovakia into different parts
        
        leads to "Black Wednesday" when the Czech army mobilizes
      - Munich
        
        3rd straw
        
        Czechs and Soviets are not even invited to this conference
        
        All agree to give Hitler the ENTIRE Sudetenland
        
        France vows to protect Czechoslovakia in return for not fighting a war
        
        No one really wants to help Edvard Beneš (Czech PM) fight Germany
        
        Hitler promises "no other territorial claims"
        
        orders Operation White to take over the rest