FROM APPEASEMENT TO
WAR
14.1 Notes
I. Aggression Goes Unchecked
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Japan overruns
Manchuria
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Italy invades Ethiopia
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League of Nations does
nothing
League voted sanctions
but did not enforce
Hitler re-arms and
occupies Rhineland
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Both violations of
Versailles treaty
II. Appeasement and Neutrality
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Appeasement- giving in
to the demands of an
aggressor
United States passes
Neutrality Acts
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Neutrality Acts- laws that
forbid loans or selling of
arms to nations at war
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axisagreement to fight
communism and not
interfere with each other
III. Why the West Appeased Hitler
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Fear of modern
weaponry
Pacifism following
WWI
 Pacifism-
opposition to
all war
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Great Depression
Faith in diplomacy
Fascism a defense vs.
communism
IV. Spain Collapses Into Civil War
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Francisco Franco- led a revolt that turned into a civil war
Hitler, Mussolini supported Franco
Stalin supported his opponents
Spain was used by Hitler as a testing ground for new weapons
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Guernica- Spanish town that was bombed, 1,600 innocents die
Franco becomes fascist dictator
V. German Aggression Continues
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Austria Annexed
Called Anschuluss
 Nazis already controlled
top government posts
 Hitler just walked in and
took it
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Czech crisis
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Hitler wanted
Sudetenland, a German
speaking portion of
Czechoslovakia
VI. The Munich Conference
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Munich ConferenceWest persuaded Czech
to surrender
Sudetenland to Hitler to
avoid war
British PM Chamberlain
declared “peace for our
time”
 Hitler assured them that
there were no further
plans to expand
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VII. Europe Plunges Toward War
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March 1939 Hitler takes
the rest of Czech
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Nazi-Soviet Pact- nonaggression pact
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Britain, France pledge to
defend Poland, Hitler’s
likely next target
Secretly agreed not to
fight if one went to war
and to divide up Eastern
Europe and Poland
September 1st, 1939
Hitler invades Poland
WWII begins