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Review. Who were the dictators? What factors helped them come to power? What did they do once in power? Scapegoat – Fascism – Purge – Propaganda – Totalitarianism –. Road to War: Aggression and Appeasement. Mizell, Year II, Humanities.
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Review • Who were the dictators? • What factors helped them come to power? • What did they do once in power? • Scapegoat – • Fascism – • Purge – • Propaganda – • Totalitarianism –
Road to War: Aggression and Appeasement Mizell, Year II, Humanities
EQs: (1)How did aggression and appeasement lead to war?(2) How did the dictators violate the Treaty of Versailles?
Background • League of Nations was weak • Britain and France want to avoid war • In Germany, Hitler and Nazis desire lebensraum (living space for the German people)
1935 – Hitler ignores Treaty of Versailles and builds up German military
1936 – Hitler occupies the Rhineland (area between France and Germany)
1938 – Hitler wants the Sudetenland (area of Czechoslovakia)
Munich Conference – meeting where Neville Chamberlain of Britain agrees to let Hitler have the Sudetenland to avoid war.Hitler promises not to invade the rest of Czechoslovakia • This is an example of appeasement
What does Appeasement prove to the Dictators? • They can continue to be aggressive because the other countries want to avoid war and must be weak • The League of Nations has no real power
Directions • Use the Appeasement-Aggression sheet to fill in the T-chart and answer the questions on the back of the graphic organizer
Current Aggression • Russia in the Ukraine