Terms

Appeasement: both sides giving up something for the greater good. Done through admitting, agreeing, and negotiating. Hopes to avoid military disagreements.

League of Nations: International governmental organization created at one point during the Treaty of Versialle. Included 58 members. It was made to prevent future wars and to resolve conflicts between different countries.

Collective Security: security agreement where all countries involved to take security as an important issue. NATO is the best known collective security defense force. The League of Nations did not approve of the concept of Collective Security at first.

Neville Chamberlain: Once was the Prime Minister of the UK. Appeasement of foreign policies related to the Munich Agreement. Voted into parliament in 1918 and was a British conservative politician.

Remilitarization of the Rhineland: March 1936. Germany military had control over the Rhineland again. Adolf Hitler leads this. The Versailles Treaty specifically states that Germany could not have possession of the Rhineland and Hitler takes control over it anyways in order to gain popularity, and add to the amount of land in Germany’s empire.


Anschluss: incorporation of Austria & Germany. Hitler leads this. One of first major steps into Hitler’s dream to create one empire that includes all German speaking territories


Lebensraum: concept that means finding additional living space. Hitler wanted to enlarge Germany by within Europe. He wanted all of former German territory back. He claimed it was living area, they didn’t really need it but demanded it. Thought it would make military stronger & make Germany more self sufficient through adding food & raw material sources.

Austrian Nazi Party: Political party of Austria. Use of propaganda in order to get people to support the Nazis. Austria Nazi Party and Hitler’s party joins together to form the German Nazis.


Austrian Plebiscite: Political group in Austria. Made decisions during 1950’s. People had no freedom in Austria.

Kurt Schuschnigg: Austrian politician that served as a dictator of Austria. Leader of Austrofascism regime. Reign ended when he was imprisoned in a concentration camp, a political prisoner of the German Nazis.

Abyssinia Crisis: Conflict between Italy and Ethiopia. Had a negative impact on the League of Nations. Helped push the alliance of fascist Italy and socialist Germany.

Sudetenland: German word portrays western regions of Czechoslovakia. German inhabitants on this area. Germany attacked during WWII through Lebensraum.


Munich Agreement: agreement that states that Sudetenland were regions along the border of Czechoslavakia. Established in Munich incorporating Germany and other major powers. Decide the future of Czechoslovakia and Hitler’s plans with Czechoslovakia.