1 / 10

Aggression, Appeasement, and War

Aggression, Appeasement, and War. The Road to WWII. Dictators Challenge World Peace: Japan. Japanese Expansionism: “An Asia for the Asians!” Japan had long felt that European powers should not have power in Asia. Japanese Expansion.

rreed
Download Presentation

Aggression, Appeasement, and War

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. Aggression, Appeasement, and War The Road to WWII

  2. Dictators Challenge World Peace: Japan • Japanese Expansionism: “An Asia for the Asians!” • Japan had long felt that European powers should not have power in Asia.

  3. Japanese Expansion • Felt that it was their duty to conquer these areas to push the colonial powers out • In reality, they would conquer much of Eastern Asia but as an addition to the Japanese Empire • Often times the Japanese were more oppressive than the Europeans • Japanese expansion begins with the invasion of Manchuria in 1931 • This essentially becomes the first invasion of WWII.

  4. Dictators Challenge World Peace: Italy Invades Ethiopia • Mussolini builds a large, modern military to become the pride of Italy • This military is used for his expansionist ideas in Ethiopia first • 1935: Italy invades Ethiopia • HaileSelassie, Ethiopia’s king, asks the League of Nations for help. • They put sanctions, or penalties, on Italy, but have no real power to enforce them. • By early 1936, Italy had conquered Ethiopia

  5. Dictators Challenge World Peace: Hitler’s Challenge • Hitler begins his campaign with several violations of the hated Treaty of Versailles • Built up a large German army which was against the regulations of the treaty • Sent troops and conquered the “demilitarized” Rhineland, bordering France and Germany

  6. Appeasement and Neutrality • Regarding Hitler’s expansion, the Western world adopted a policy of appeasement, or giving in to demands. • Why? Fear of another war similar to WWI. • In both Britain and France, many saw fascism as a response to an even worse threat, communism • Also, the Great Depression left many western countries feeling vulnerable as they would not have the resources to fight another war. • Widespread Pacifism, or opposition to war, broke out world wide.

  7. Rome, Berlin, Tokyo Axis • Rome, Berlin, Tokyo Axis • Germany, Italy and Japan all agree to fight Soviet Communism as well as not to interfere with each other’s plan for expansion.

  8. German Expansion Continues • Hitler continues to attempt to reach his goal of uniting all German speaking people under the Third Reich • Anschluss, Hitler’s plan to unify Austria and Germany. • Hitler annexed Austria by sending in his military. • The Czech Crisis • Czechoslovakia was one of the few remaining democracies in Eastern Europe. • Germany took areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia

  9. Munich Conference • British and French leaders meet to decide how to handle Hitler. • Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, chooses appeasement again, giving Hitler the Sudetenland without conflict.

  10. Failure of Chamberlain • Chamberlain claims to England that he has achieved “peace for our time!” • However, Winston Churchill, felt otherwise, stating “They had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor, they will have war.”

More Related