HIST 1084 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Munich Agreement, Maginot Line, Lebensraum
Document Summary
World war ii: the war in europe: lebensraum, blitzkrieg, d-day, appeasement, nazi-soviet pact, battle of stalingrad. Hitler"s quest for lebensraum: aryans deserved more high quality land, darwinian view of the world : survival of the fittest, could only happen with eastward movement. Austrian anschluss (1938: hitler and nazis march into austria, no resistance, could have been a turning point. Sudetenland, october 1938: demands land over border, allies divided, chose appeasement, munich agreement, czechs not invited. Appeasement: the munich agreement, 1938: peace in our time, got sudetenland. Czechoslovakia, march 1939: more land, hitler does not have the military, any more expansion there will be a war. France"s maginot line: new defensive line from swiss border to luxembourg/belgium border, germans attacked 1940 and took paris, consolidation of territory, democracy"s do not have stamina for a fight according to hitler, thought about gb.
