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Warm Up

Warm Up. A mother takes her 5 year old to Rite Aid. The boy asks for a snicker’s bar and she says no. The boy cries and throws a fit. Wanting to avoid a public scene the mother buys him some candy. The boy eats the candy an asks for more. When the mother says no he throws another tantrum.

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Warm Up

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  1. Warm Up A mother takes her 5 year old to Rite Aid. The boy asks for a snicker’s bar and she says no. The boy cries and throws a fit. Wanting to avoid a public scene the mother buys him some candy. The boy eats the candy an asks for more. When the mother says no he throws another tantrum. 1. What should the mother do? 2. Why?

  2. WWII Begins Chapter 14, Section 1

  3. Keeping the Peace • Appeasement: giving in to the demands of the aggressor to keep the peace • Why appeasement? • Dealing with the Great Depression • Isolationism / pacifism (opposition to war) • Axis Powers • Germany, Italy, Japan become allies

  4. Two Sides of the War AXIS (Major) Germany Italy Japan Soviet Union (until 1941) AXIS (Minor) Hungary Romania Slovakia Bulgaria ALLIES (Major) China France - (after 1940) Free France United Kingdom Soviet Union (invaded Germany 1941 before that on the side of the Axis) United States (after 1941) ALLIES (Minor) Belgium (invaded May 10, 1940) Greece (invaded October 28, 1940) Luxembourg (invaded May 10, 1940) Netherlands (invaded May 10, 1940) Norway (invaded April 9, 1940) Poland (invaded 1 September 1939) Yugoslavia (invaded April 6, 1941)

  5. Aggression Goes Unchecked • 1931 : Japan invades Manchuria • League of Nations protests ; Japan leaves the League • 1935: Italy invades Ethiopia • League of Nations protests ; Italy ignores them • 1936: Germany occupies the Rhineland • Western Nations protest but take no action

  6. Japanese in Manchuria Rape of Nanjing Japanese army massacres over 300,000 Chinese civilians

  7. German Aggression • 1938: Hitler annexes Austria(Democracies do nothing) • 1938: Hitler demands Sudetenland • Munich Conference: Hitler is appeased again • Hitler takes Sudetenland & promises no more demands • 1939: Hitler takes Czechoslovakia • Britain & France realize appeasement won’t work • Promise to protect Poland

  8. Annexation of Austria Hitler wants union of all German-speaking people March 1938: Nazis march into Austria and carry out the Anschluss: German/Austrian unification

  9. Enemies Become Friends • 1939: Nazi – Soviet Non Aggression Pact • Hitler & Stalin at peace • Will not attack each other • Plan to divide up Europe • Based on mutual need • Stalin tries to protect USSR • Hitler avoids 2 front war • Allowed Germany to invade Poland without Soviet opposition

  10. Polish Corridor

  11. The Invasion of Poland Hitler wanted to recover the Polish Corridor which dissected Germany March 1939: Demands Polish corridor of Danzig be returned Poland, knowing it has British/French support, refuses Hitler turns to Stalin for support

  12. Europe Plunges Into War • Sept 1, 1939: Germany Invades Poland • France & Great Britain declare war on Germany. • World War II begins.

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