Transcript Chapter 14.1

Chapter 14.1
From Appeasement to War
Aggression Goes Unchecked p460
• Mussolini, Hitler, Japan aggressive
• 1. Japan invades Manchuria and
China
• League of Nations condemned but
no action
• 2. Italy invades Ethiopia
• League of Nations condemns but no
action
• 3. Hitler goes against Treaty of
Versailles
• Built up military,
• No action
• Policy of appeasement
Checking for Understanding??
• What were the three countries that
were militarily aggressive?
• What did Western democracies do ?
Keeping the Peace
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Why?
France –weak
England-too harsh on Germany
Both fear of Soviet Communism
*Pacifism-avoid war
*Appeasement-giving into demands
• Neutrality acts-US forbade selling
arms to countries at war
• Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
• Axis Powers
• Goals-fight Soviet Communism and
allow territorial expansion
Spain Collapses Into Civil War
• Liberals vs. Conservatives
• Francisco Franco- Fascist Nationalist
vs. Communist Loyalists
• Axis backs Franco vs. Soviets back
Communists
• 500,000 dead
• Battle of Guernica-Fascist Nazi help
Franco committing atrocities
• Franco dictator 1939
German Aggression Continues
• 1. Austria annexed (added to) by
Germany
• Anschluss-union of Austria and
Germany
• Western Powers-no action
• 2. The Czech Crisis
• Germany annexes the Sudetenlandan area in western Czechoslavakia
• Western Powers-no action and
request conference with Germany
Munich Conference
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France, Britain, and Germany
Agree toGermany gets Sudetenland
France and Britain get promise from
Germany that Hitler will stop
aggression
“Peace in Our Time”
• Neville Chamberlin-Britain returns to
England with “Peace for our Time”
and is celebrated
• Winston Churchill- They had to
choose between war and dishonor.
They chose dishonor; they will have
war
Europe Plunges Toward War
• Germany breaks promise 1939
• Nazi- Soviet Pact- nonaggression pact
Hitler and Stalin
• Both agree to share Poland and
Eastern Europe
• Mistrust and fear
WWII Starts
• Invasion of Poland
• Sept 1, 1939 by Germany
• Britain and France declare war
“From Appeasement to War”