Timeline of Fascist Aggression

Timeline 9/ 1931 Japan invades Manchuria 10/ 1935 Italy attacks Ethiopia 3/ 1936 Germany occupies Rhineland 7/ 1937 Japan invades China 3/ 1938 Germany annexes Austria 9/ 1938 Germany takes Sudetenland 3/ 1939 Germany seizes Czechoslovakia 4/ 1939 Italy conquers Albania

Appeasement Giving in to an aggressor to keep peace

Axis Powers Alliance among:

Italy Germany Japan

Isolationism Belief that political ties to other countries

should be avoided

Third Reich The 3rd German Empire

1st Holy Roman Empire 2nd Unification of Germany

Munich Conference A 1938 meeting of representatives of the

Great Powers where they allowed Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia if Hitler would respect Czechoslovakia’s new borders

Neville Chamberlin British Prime

Minister who believed he could achieve a lasting peace with Nazi Germany by meeting at Munich

Winston Churchill Prime Minister of

England during WWII

Kept British moral up with his never quit attitude

Nonaggression Pact A public pledge never to attack one another Germany and Russia signed one in August

of 1939