AGGRESSION, APPEASEMENT, AND WAR

1935: ITALY INVADES ETHIOPIA. LEAGUE OF NATIONS VOTES SANCTIONS AGAINST ITALY THAT ARE LARGELY UNENFORCED.

1936

GERMANY SENDS TROOPS INTO THE 2. RHINELAND; WESTERN DEMOCRACIES ADOPT A POLICY OF APPEASEMENT.

GERMANY, ITALY, & JAPAN FORM THE 3.ROME-BERLIN-TOKYO AXIS AGREEING TO FIGHT COMMUNISM & NOT INTERFERE WITH EACH OTHER’S EXPANSION.

SPANISH CIVIL WAR BREAKS OUT BETWEEN FRANCISCO FRANCO’S NATIONAISTS & SUPPORTERS OF THE REPUBLIC, CALLED 4. LOYALISTS; 5. HITLER AND MUSSOLINI SIDE WITH THE SOVIET UNION WHO SUPPORTS THE LOYALISTS.

1937

JAPAN INVADES 6. EASTERN CHINA; WESTERN PROTESTS HAVE NO EFFECT. GERMAN BOMBERS RAID SPANISH TOWN OF GUERNICA.

1938

GERMANY ANNEXES 7. AUSTRIA; WESTERN DEMOCRACIES TAKE NO ACTION. AT 8. THE MUNICH CONFERENCE BRITISH AND FRENCH LEADERS GIVE IN TO HITLER’S DEMANDS FOR THE SUDETENLAND.

1939

FRANCO TRIUMPHS IN SPAIN. HITLER TAKES OVER THE REST OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA. HITLER SIGNS A NONAGRESSION PACT WITH STALIN IN WHICH THE TWO AGREE: 9. NOT TO FIGHT IF THE OTHER GOES TO WAR & TO DIVIDE UP POLAND & OTHER PARTS OF EASTERN EUROPE BETWEEN THEM.

GERMANY INVADES POLAND; BRITAIN & FRANCE DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY!

#10. WHY DID FRANCE & BRITAIN CHOOSE THE

POLICY OF APPEASMENT? DREADING WAR, THEY HOPED DIPLOMACY

& COMPROMISE COULD RIGHT OLD WRONGS AND PREVENT FURTHER AGGRESSION.

THE DEVASTATION OF WWI, COMBINED WITH AWARENESS OF THE DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY, MADE THE IDEA OF MORE FIGHTING UNBEARABLE!

THEY WERE DISTRACTED WITH THEIR OWN ECONOMIC & POLITICAL PROBLEMS

#11. HOW DID THE UNITED STATES REACT TO THE

EVENTS IN EUROPE? CAUTIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WANTED TO REMAIN NEUTRAL /

ISOLATED / OUT OF A SECOND WORLD WAR!

#12. SANCTION

A PENALTY IMPOSED ON A NATION THAT HAS VIOLATED INTERNATIONAL LAW BY OTHER NATIONS

#13. APPEASEMENT

GIVING IN TO THE DEMANDS OF AN AGGRESSOR IN ORDER TO KEEP THE PEACE

#14. PACIFISM

OPPOSITION TO ALL WAR

#15. ANSCHLUSS

UNION OF AUSTRIA AND GERMANY ENGINEERED BY HITLER