AGGRESSION, APPEASEMENT, AND WAR

1935: ;

LEAGUE OF NATIONS VOTES SANCTIONS AGAINST ITALY THAT ARE LARGELY UNENFORCED.

ITALY INVADES ETHIOPIA

1936 GERMANY SENDS TROOPS INTO THE 2. ; WESTERN DEMOCRACIES

ADOPT A POLICY OF APPEASEMENT. GERMANY, ITALY, & JAPAN FORM THE 3.

__________________________ AGREEING TO FIGHT COMMUNISM & NOT INTERFERE WITH EACH OTHER’S EXPANSION.

SPANISH CIVIL WAR BREAKS OUT BETWEEN FRANCISCO FRANCO’S NATIONAISTS & SUPPORTERS OF THE REPUBLIC, CALLED 4.

; 5. SIDE WITH FRANCO WHILE THE SOVIET UNION SUPPORTS THE LOYALISTS.

RHINELAND

ROME-BERLIN-TOKYO AXIS

LOYALISTS HITLER AND MUSSOLINI

1937 JAPAN INVADES 6. ;

WESTERN PROTESTS HAVE NO EFFECT.

GERMAN BOMBERS RAID SPANISH TOWN OF GUERNICA.

EASTERN CHINA

1938

GERMANY ANNEXES 7. ; WESTERN DEMOCRACIES TAKE NO ACTION. AT 8. ____________

______________BRITISH AND FRENCH LEADERS GIVE IN TO HITLER’S DEMANDS FOR THE SUDETENLAND.

AUSTRIA

THE MUNICH

CONFERENCE

1939 FRANCO TRIUMPHS IN SPAIN. HITLER TAKES

OVER THE REST OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA. HITLER SIGNS A NONAGRESSION PACT WITH STALIN IN WHICH THE TWO AGREE: 9._____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ .

GERMANY INVADES POLAND; BRITAIN & FRANCE DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY!

NOT TO FIGHT IF THE OTHER GOES TO WAR & TO DIVIDE UP POLAND & OTHER PARTS OF EASTERN EUROPE BETWEEN THEM

#10. WHY DID FRANCE & BRITAIN CHOOSE THE

POLICY OF APPEASMENT? DREADING WAR, THEY HOPED DIPLOMACY

& COMPROMISE COULD RIGHT OLD WRONGS AND PREVENT FURTHER AGGRESSION.

THE DEVASTATION OF WWI, COMBINED WITH AWARENESS OF THE DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY, MADE THE IDEA OF MORE FIGHTING UNBEARABLE!

THEY WERE DISTRACTED WITH THEIR OWN ECONOMIC & POLITICAL PROBLEMS

#11. HOW DID THE UNITED STATES REACT TO THE

EVENTS IN EUROPE? CAUTIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WANTED TO REMAIN NEUTRAL /

ISOLATED / OUT OF A SECOND WORLD WAR!

#12. SANCTION

A PENALTY IMPOSED ON A NATION THAT HAS VIOLATED INTERNATIONAL LAW BY OTHER NATIONS

#13. APPEASEMENT

GIVING IN TO THE DEMANDS OF AN AGGRESSOR IN ORDER TO KEEP THE PEACE

#14. PACIFISM

OPPOSITION TO ALL WAR

#15. ANSCHLUSS

UNION OF AUSTRIA AND GERMANY ENGINEERED BY HITLER