world history 14.1 From Appeasement To War
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FROM APPEASEMENT TO
WAR
14.1 Notes
I. Aggression Goes Unchecked
Japan overruns
Manchuria
Italy invades Ethiopia
League of Nations does
nothing
League voted sanctions
but did not enforce
Hitler re-arms and
occupies Rhineland
Both violations of
Versailles treaty
II. Appeasement and Neutrality
Appeasement- giving in
to the demands of an
aggressor
United States passes
Neutrality Acts
Neutrality Acts- laws that
forbid loans or selling of
arms to nations at war
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axisagreement to fight
communism and not
interfere with each other
III. Why the West Appeased Hitler
Fear of modern
weaponry
Pacifism following
WWI
Pacifism-
opposition to
all war
Great Depression
Faith in diplomacy
Fascism a defense vs.
communism
IV. Spain Collapses Into Civil War
Francisco Franco- led a revolt that turned into a civil war
Hitler, Mussolini supported Franco
Stalin supported his opponents
Spain was used by Hitler as a testing ground for new weapons
Guernica- Spanish town that was bombed, 1,600 innocents die
Franco becomes fascist dictator
V. German Aggression Continues
Austria Annexed
Called Anschuluss
Nazis already controlled
top government posts
Hitler just walked in and
took it
Czech crisis
Hitler wanted
Sudetenland, a German
speaking portion of
Czechoslovakia
VI. The Munich Conference
Munich ConferenceWest persuaded Czech
to surrender
Sudetenland to Hitler to
avoid war
British PM Chamberlain
declared “peace for our
time”
Hitler assured them that
there were no further
plans to expand
VII. Europe Plunges Toward War
March 1939 Hitler takes
the rest of Czech
Nazi-Soviet Pact- nonaggression pact
Britain, France pledge to
defend Poland, Hitler’s
likely next target
Secretly agreed not to
fight if one went to war
and to divide up Eastern
Europe and Poland
September 1st, 1939
Hitler invades Poland
WWII begins