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AGGRESSION, APPEASEMENT, AND WAR. 1935: ; LEAGUE OF NATIONS VOTES SANCTIONS AGAINST ITALY THAT ARE LARGELY UNENFORCED. . ITALY INVADES ETHIOPIA. 1936. RHINELAND. GERMANY SENDS TROOPS INTO THE 2.
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AGGRESSION, APPEASEMENT, AND WAR • 1935: ; LEAGUE OF NATIONS VOTES SANCTIONS AGAINST ITALY THAT ARE LARGELY UNENFORCED. ITALY INVADES ETHIOPIA
1936 RHINELAND • 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. 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 APPEASEMENT? • 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