Why do parents often give in to their young children when they cry?

World War II How it Begins! SEs: 2B, 2C, 2D, 7A, 7B, 12B

 Treaty of Versailles blames Germany for WWI  Forced to pay war reparations  Unstable economies & democracies across Europe  Rise of Dictators  Great Depression effects felt world wide

 Hitler  Germany  Nazism  Benito Mussolini  Italy  Fascism  Josef Stalin  Russia  Communism  Nazism was Fascism & Racism  Fascism is the Nation is above everything  Totalitarianism is the control of every aspect of society

 Hitler Stalin Mussolini  Dictators often arrested, imprisoned, and even killed those who opposed their govt.

Nazi Germany (Hitler) Fascist Italy (Mussolini) Imperialist Japan (Tojo)

League of Nations fails Without the backing of the U.S., the League of Nations was powerless to stop aggression of countries like Germany, Italy and Japan.

Japanese territorial aggression began in 1931 when the Japanese conquered the Chinese province of Manchuria. Japanese Aggression

Japan wanted to expand in order to gain control of more natural resources. Japanese Aggression

Mussolini and the Italians conquered Ethiopia & access to Red Sea Italian Aggression

Promise re-establishment of Roman Empire Italian Aggression

Hitler made territorial demands to get land back for Germany that had been lost after WWI. German aggression

Poland Czechoslovakia Hitler ignores the Treaty of Versailles and reoccupies the Rhineland in 1937 German aggression

Poland Hitler and the Germans annex Austria in 1938 German aggression

Poland In 1938, Hitler wants the Sudetenland, threatens to invade Czechoslovakia German aggression

At the Munich Conference, Hitler tells the leaders of Great Britain and France that the Sudetenland was his last demand.

Appeasement Giving in to someone in order to avoid conflict The British and French give in to Hitler because they were willing to give him whatever he wanted to maintain peace.

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returns to London and famously declared that he had secured “peace in our time.”

German aggression Within a year, Hitler had annexed the rest of Czechoslovakia. Poland was next.

Nazis-Soviet Non-Agression Pact Hitler & Stalin sign a non-aggression pact promising not to attack each other but rather work as a team to conquer Europe

Germany Invades Poland on September 1, 1939 World War II Begins!!!

Nazis, Soviets split Poland The Nazis conquered Poland in a month and then split Poland with the Soviets, re-establishing the pre-World War I borders.