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Timeline of Fascist Aggression. Timeline. 9/ 1931 Japan invades Manchuria 10/ 1935 Italy attacks Ethiopia 3/ 1936 Germany occupies Rhineland 7/ 1937 Japan invades China 3/ 1938 Germany annexes Austria 9/ 1938 Germany takes Sudetenland 3/ 1939 Germany seizes Czechoslovakia
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Timeline • 9/ 1931 Japan invades Manchuria • 10/ 1935 Italy attacks Ethiopia • 3/ 1936 Germany occupies Rhineland • 7/ 1937 Japan invades China • 3/ 1938 Germany annexes Austria • 9/ 1938 Germany takes Sudetenland • 3/ 1939 Germany seizes Czechoslovakia • 4/ 1939 Italy conquers Albania
Appeasement • Giving in to an aggressor to keep peace
Axis Powers • Alliance among: • Italy • Germany • Japan
Isolationism • Belief that political ties to other countries should be avoided
Third Reich • The 3rd German Empire • 1st Holy Roman Empire • 2nd Unification of Germany
Munich Conference • A 1938 meeting of representatives of the Great Powers where they allowed Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia if Hitler would respect Czechoslovakia’s new borders
Neville Chamberlin • British Prime Minister who believed he could achieve a lasting peace with Nazi Germany by meeting at Munich
Winston Churchill • Prime Minister of England during WWII • Kept British moral up with his never quit attitude
Nonaggression Pact • A public pledge never to attack one another • Germany and Russia signed one in August of 1939