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Bellringer. No SOL Challenge today due to the Quiz Look over notes for quiz to begin right after the bell rings! BJOTD: Why did the librarian slip and fall? . The Road to War with the Help of Dr. Seuss. Invasions begin!. Japan invaded Manchuria, Korea, and China in the early 1930s
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Bellringer • No SOL Challenge today due to the Quiz • Look over notes for quiz to begin right after the bell rings! • BJOTD: Why did the librarian slip and fall?
Invasions begin! • Japan invaded Manchuria, Korea, and China in the early 1930s • Received no punishment from the League of Nations, so… • Mussolini Attacked Ethiopia in 1935 • One of the only free countries left in Africa • The Ethiopians had resisted Italy in the 1890’s • Italy wanted revenge • Ethiopia appealed for help from the League, but the League did nothing
Imperialism Spreads to Europe • Hitler defied Treaty of Versailles • Hitler decided Germany would no longer have a restricted military • The league condemned this • Hitler entered the Rhineland, a buffer space in-between France and Germany and an industrial center on March 7, 1936
Appeasement Urges Hitler On • The French and British urged Germany to stop, giving them an appeasement • Definition: giving in to an aggressor to keep peace • Hitler is not stopped and plans to take more land
Alliances Begin • Hitler and Mussolini join an alliance- Rome-Berlin Axis • A month later Japan, Germany and Italy together become the Axis powers
What is the U.S. doing? • The USA is overwhelmed with the Depression and fears war • So, the US adopts a policy of isolation • 1935, Congress passed 3 Neutrality Acts, saying loans and arms cannot be given to nations at war
What Germany did as a result • Germany meets no resistance, so • The Third Reich Expands • On November 1937, Hitler announced he was going to add Austria and Czechoslovakia to the Third Reich or German Empire • Austrianssupport this. The union of Austria and Germany is called the Anschluss • Czechoslovakiansasked France to help protect a region of their land known as the Sudetenland
Munich Conference • To try to avoid war a conference is held. Germany, Italy, France and Britain all attend • They agreed to give into Hitler and give him Sudetenland , but Hitler had to promise to honor the new borders • 6 months later… • Hitler takes over Czechoslovakia • demanded the Poles give back the former German port, Dazing. • The Poles turn to Britain and France for help, both say they will guarantee Poland’s freedom.
Nazis and Soviets Sign Nonaggression Pact • Britain and France asked the Soviet Union to join them in stopping Hitler • Stalin also talked to Hitler • On August 23, 1939, a nonaggression pact was signed between Germany and the USSR
The War Begins • After the Soviet Union agrees not to attack Germany, Hitler takes his army and marches into Poland on September 3, 1939. • World War II has begun.
Causes of World War II • Aggression by totalitarian powers • Nationalism • The Treaty of Versailles • Weakness of the League of Nations • Tendencies towards isolationism and pacifism in Europe and the US
Your options • Art • On a piece of blank paper, create a political cartoon that reflects the cause or causes that you feel were the most influential to starting World War II. • You must: • Address one or more causes of World War II • Use symbols, exaggeration, metaphors to explain your point. • More pictures than words! • On the back, give a 2-3 sentence description explaining WHY you feel this cause was the most influential in starting World War II. • Writing • On a piece of paper, rank the causes of World War II in order from most influential to least influential in terms of causing the war. In an 8-10 sentence paragraph, using evidence from the notes, explain WHY you put them in this order. Why do you feel that one is more influential than another? • If not done in class, must be finished for homework