Timeline of Fascist Aggression
Timeline 9/ 1931 Japan invades Manchuria 10/ 1935 Italy attacks Ethiopia 3/ 1936 Germany occupies Rhineland 7/ 1937 Japan invades China 3/ 1938 Germany annexes Austria 9/ 1938 Germany takes Sudetenland 3/ 1939 Germany seizes Czechoslovakia 4/ 1939 Italy conquers Albania
Appeasement Giving in to an aggressor to keep peace
Axis Powers Alliance among: Italy Germany Japan
Isolationism Belief that political ties to other countries should be avoided
Third Reich The 3rd German Empire 1st Holy Roman Empire 2nd Unification of Germany
Munich Conference A 1938 meeting of representatives of the Great Powers where they allowed Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia if Hitler would respect Czechoslovakia’s new borders
Neville Chamberlin British Prime Minister who believed he could achieve a lasting peace with Nazi Germany by meeting at Munich
Winston Churchill Prime Minister of England during WWII Kept British moral up with his never quit attitude
Nonaggression Pact A public pledge never to attack one another Germany and Russia signed one in August of 1939