1. Bell Ringer Analyze the political cartoon.
What is happening to the central figure?
Who produced the poster?
Why did they produce the poster?

2. EQ: Was appeasement an effective policy?
The Road to World War II
EQ: Was appeasement an effective policy?

3. Upset by the Treaty of Versailles 1931 – Japan invades Manchuria
Japanese Militarism
Upset by the Treaty of Versailles
1931 – Japan invades Manchuria
Resources
Living space

4. Rape of Nanjing – 1937
Over 300,000 Chinese civilians and prisoners of war massacred
League of Nations does nothing

5. Military buildup – Army, Navy, Airforce Direct violation of the ToV
Nazi Aggression
Military buildup – Army, Navy, Airforce
Direct violation of the ToV
LoN does nothing

6. Nazi Aggression
Troops in the Rhineland Demilitarized zone by the ToV -Hitler was testing what he could get away with -LoN does nothing

7. 1938 - Anschluss – Union with Austria Forces Austria into submission
Nazi Aggression
Anschluss – Union with Austria
Forces Austria into submission
LoN does nothing

8. Nazi Aggression
1938 – Takes control of the Sudentenland -Portion of Czechoslovakia -Occupied by Germans -LoN does nothing

10. Munich Conference
“Peace for our time”
Czechoslovakia given to Germany to avoid war
Appeasement- to yield or concede to demands to preserve peace

12. Winston Churchill
“Great Britain and France were given a choice between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor and they will have war.”

13. Nazi Aggression
1939 – Hitler invades the rest of Czechoslovakia

15. Germany and Russia agree not to fight Agreed to divide Poland
Nazi Aggression
Non-Aggression Pact
Germany and Russia agree not to fight
Agreed to divide Poland
Neither side expected it to last

17. September 1, 1939 – Invasion of Poland
Nazi Aggression
September 1, 1939 – Invasion of Poland
Britain and France finally declare war
WWII has begun

19. Essential Question
Was appeasement an effective policy?

20. Illustrated timeline
Create a timeline of 10 significant events between 1931 and 1939 that led to WWII, each event on the timeline should:
Be titled
Be dated
Have an illustration