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?
WWII Begins
Chapter 14, Section 1
Keeping the Peace
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Appeasement: giving in to the demands of the
aggressor to keep the peace
Why appeasement?
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Dealing with the Great Depression
Isolationism / pacifism (opposition to war)
Axis Powers
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Germany, Italy, Japan become allies
Two Sides of the War
AXIS (Major)
 Germany
 Italy
 Japan
 Soviet
Union (until
1941)
AXIS (Minor)
 Hungary
 Romania
 Slovakia
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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)
Aggression Goes Unchecked
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1931 : Japan invades Manchuria
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1935: Italy invades Ethiopia
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League of Nations protests ; Japan leaves the League
League of Nations protests ; Italy ignores them
1936: Germany occupies the Rhineland
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Western Nations protest but take no action
Japanese in Manchuria
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Rape of Nanjing
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Japanese army massacres over 300,000 Chinese
civilians
German Aggression
1938: Hitler annexes Austria (Democracies do nothing)
 1938: Hitler demands Sudetenland
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Munich Conference: Hitler is appeased again
Hitler takes Sudetenland & promises no more demands
1939: Hitler takes Czechoslovakia
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Britain & France realize appeasement won’t work
Promise to protect Poland
Annexation of Austria
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Hitler wants union of all German-speaking
people
March 1938: Nazis march into Austria and
carry out the Anschluss: German/Austrian
unification
Enemies Become Friends
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1939: Nazi – Soviet Non
Aggression Pact
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Hitler & Stalin at peace
Will not attack each other
Plan to divide up Europe
Based on mutual need
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Stalin tries to protect USSR
Hitler avoids 2 front war
Allowed Germany to invade
Poland without Soviet opposition
Polish Corridor
The Invasion of Poland
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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
Europe Plunges Into War
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Sept 1, 1939: Germany Invades Poland
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France & Great Britain declare war on Germany.
World War II begins.