1 / 23

AGGRESSORS INVADE NATIONS

AGGRESSORS INVADE NATIONS. 1931 Japan invades Manchuria. 1. Why did the Japanese invade Manchuria?. To solve economic problems (Raw materials) Protect Japanese business interests. 1935 Mussolini (Italy) invades Ethiopia. 2. Why did Britain & France take no action against Italian aggression?.

pascha
Download Presentation

AGGRESSORS INVADE NATIONS

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. AGGRESSORSINVADENATIONS

  2. 1931 Japan invades Manchuria

  3. 1. Why did the Japanese invade Manchuria? • To solve economic problems (Raw materials) • Protect Japanese business interests

  4. 1935 Mussolini (Italy) invades Ethiopia

  5. 2. Why did Britain & France take no action against Italian aggression? • To Keep Peace

  6. 1935 United States Congress passes first of three Neutrality Acts Foreign Entanglements

  7. 3. Why did isolationists want these laws passed? • Didn’t want the U.S. engaged in another war in Europe.

  8. Isolationism • Policy that prevents the USA from becoming involved in “foreign entanglements” • To Keep Peace

  9. 4. Why was the U.S. Isolationist? 1. Great Depression (problems at home) 2. Perceptions of WWI a. WWI did not seem to solve much b. People began to think that we’d got into WWI for the wrong reasons (greedy American businessmen!) • Opposition to war (Pacifism)

  10. This led to policies of “Appeasement” • Appeasement: give dictators what they want and hope that they won’t want anything else 2. Begins with Japanese invasion of Manchuria, Italian invasion of Ethiopia, and continues with Hitler.

  11. Third Reich • Hitler’s version of a new German Empire to rule Europe

  12. 1936 German Troops move into the Rhineland Demilitarized by Versailles

  13. 5. What are some effects of appeasing Hitler after his invasion of the Rhineland? • Hitler is encouraged to speed up military & territorial expansion

  14. 1937 Japan invades China

  15. 6. What were the immediate results of this invasion? • Chinese retreated & set up a new capital • Chinese guerillas continue to fight.

  16. 1937 Hitler plans to absorb Austria & Czechoslovakia into the Third Reich. • Return of German Speaking Lands - “Lebensraum” • Gain Back lost territory = Sudentenland (now part of Czech Republic) Germany Czechoslovakia Austria

  17. 1938 Munich Conference held

  18. 7. Why was the Munich Conference unsuccessful? • Czechs were not invited • Chamberlain believes he could preserve peace by giving in.

  19. 1939 Franco becomes Spanish Dictator

  20. 8. How did other countries help Franco’s Nationalist forces bring about the collapse of Republican resistance? • Western Democracies remained neutral • Hitler / Mussolini aided Franco

  21. 1939 Germany & Russia sign a nonaggression pact

  22. 9. Why did Stalin sign an agreement with Fascist Germany, once a bitter enemy? • Wanted to avoid war with Germany - Doesn’t last long.

  23. Axis Powers • Japan • Italy • Germany

More Related