Term Definitions

1. Appeasement- This is the settling of international problems by negotiation and compromise. Neville Chamberlain, who is the British Prime Minister, is known for this because of his policy towards Nazi Germany.
2. League of Nations- This is an organization which was founded because of the Treaty of Versailles. The goals of this League was to keep the peace between countries through collective security, negotiation, and diplomacy.
3. Collective Security- This was a compromise between world government and a nation-state based balance of power. The latter is destructive and therefore not good enough for peace and it is then that the first one is unacomplishable at that time.
4. Neville Chamberlain- He was the British Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940. He is well-known for his appeasement policy. He signed the Munich Agreement in 1938, which gave Germany Sudetenland.
5. Remilitarization of the Rhineland- This took place in March 7, 1936 by the German Army. Hitler originally was going to re-militarize it in 1937, but decided to make it a year sooner. He did this because of the Olympics and the ratification of the Franco-Soviet pact by the French National Assembly in 1935. Not to mention the fact that Hitler was becoming very impatient.
6. Anschluss- This was when Austria was incorporated into Greater Germany by Nazi Germany. This happened on March 12, 1938. However, before this happened... Nazi Germany gave support to the Austrian National Socialist Party. Also, Kurt Schuschnigg tried to hold a vote in order to see if the Austrian people wanted to become apart of Germany or remain independent.
7. Lebensraum- This means "living space". This was motivation for Nazi Germany. In Hitler's book, Mein Kamp, he said how the Germans needed this. It was the killing of the Polish, and later to come, the Russians and other Slavic peoples in order to replace them with the Germans. They would do this through starvation.
8. Austrian Nazi Party- Austrian police after Austria gave into Hitler's demands. This was beneficial to Hitler because there was now a party in Austria who was also convincing Austrians to go along with him.
9. Austrian Plebiscite- The vote in Austria to show Hitler that Austrians wanted to stay independent and Austrians, not Germans. The vote was limited to people over the age of 24, so that younger people who might want change were excluded.
10. Kurt Schuschnigg- He became the chancellor of Austria after Dollfuss was assassinated. He was the person who gave into Hitler's demands, and was later imprisoned by the Nazis.
11. Abyssinia Crisis- began with the Walwal incident, which resulted from the conflict between Italy and Ethiopia. The effects of the Abyssinia Crisis include encouraging Italy to ally with Germany, and the League of Nations proved once again to be helpless.
12. Sudetenland- This was the western regions of Czechoslovakia. This is land that was given to Germany in the Munich Agreement.
13. Munich Agreement- This was an agreement in regards to Sudetenland. The agreement took place in Munich, Germany and had all the major powers of Germany except Czechoslovakia. It was signed by Italy, Britain, and France on September 30, 1938 and it gave the Sudetenland to Germany.