Response+to+Nazi+and+Fascism

//Matt Devlin//


 * Prompt:** Account for the responses of the European democracies to the military aggression by Italy and Germany during the 1930s.

__Topic 1 - Passive ignorance__
 * Appeasement to Fascism and Nazism
 * N. Chamberlain
 * British Prime minister
 * Foreign counties ignored Italy during it's rise of Facism
 * Except Hitler
 * Mussolini inspired Hitler
 * Hitler eventually surpassed his master and had to bail him out at the end of the war
 * "...the most significant aspect of the Nazis' monstrous racial lie and their attempt to act upon it by killing millions of Jews is not that there were people who had it in them to give orders for such enormities but that a much larger number of people knew what was happening, and instead of doing something to stop it, passively - and sometimes not so passively - collaborated" (Harvey).

__Topic 2 - Documentation__
 * Anglo-German Naval Agreement
 * Hitler allowed to build a navy
 * Remilitarization
 * Italy invades Ethiopia
 * No one really tries to stop them
 * Rome-Berlin Axis
 * Munich Conference
 * Key point of appeasement
 * convinces Hitler that the West is weak
 * "Unfortunately, invocations of the Munich analogy almost invariably mislead because they distort the true nature of appeasement, ignore the extreme rarity of the Nazi German threat, and falsely suggest that Britain and France could have readily stopped Hitler prior to 1939" (Record).
 * Germany gets the Sudenland without the inhabitants of the Sundenland having representation
 * Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact

__Thesis:__ During the 1930's, Nazism and Facism were able to gain uninhibited power through strategic political plans and actions such as the remilitarization of the Rhineland and the conquest of Ethiopia.

Harvey, A.D. "The lesson to be learnt from Nazism." //Contemporary Review// 274.1597 (1999): 77+. //General Reference Center Gold//. Web. 24 Apr. 2011.
 * Bibliography:**

Record, Jeffrey. "Retiring Hitler and 'appeasement' from the national security debate." //Parameters// 38.2 (2008): 91+. //General Reference Center Gold//. Web. 24 Apr. 2011.