WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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“Dien Bien Phu Falls; French to Leave Vietnam.”
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“Chamberlain Agrees to German Demands:Sudetenland to Germany”
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“Marshall Plan Proposes Economic Aid Program for Europe”
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“Soviet Troops and Tanks Crush Hungarian Revolt”
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Detailed explanation-1: -At Munich, Chamberlain got an international agreement that Hitler should have the Sudetenland in exchange for Germany making no further demands for land in Europe. Chamberlain said it was ‘Peace for our time’. Hitler said he had ‘No more territorial demands to make in Europe.
Detailed explanation-2: -Appeasement reached its climax in September 1938 with the Munich Agreement. Chamberlain hoped to avoid a war over Czechoslovakia by conceding to Adolf Hitler’s demands. The Agreement allowed Nazi Germany to annex the Sudetenland, the German-speaking parts of Czechoslovakia.
Detailed explanation-3: -Neville Chamberlain was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. He is best known for his role in the Munich Agreement of 1938 which ceded parts of Czechoslovakia to Hitler and is now the most popular example of the foreign policy known as appeasement.
Detailed explanation-4: -Today, the Munich Agreement is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement, and the term has become “a byword for the futility of appeasing expansionist totalitarian states."