1. World War II and its Aftermath 1931-1955
Chapter 29
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2. From Appeasement to War

3. Aggression goes unchecked
Japan Overruns Manchuria (1931) and Eastern China (1937)

4. Aggression goes unchecked
League of Nations condemns aggression

5. Aggression goes unchecked
Japan withdraws from the League

6. Italy invades Ethiopia 1935
Ethiopian resisted with outdated weapons

7. Italy invades Ethiopia 1935
King Haile Selassie begged
League for help

8. Italy invades Ethiopia 1935
League imposed sanctions

9. Italy invades Ethiopia 1935
Ethiopia surrendered in 1936

11. Italy’s expansion
By 1940

12. Hitler Violates Treaty
Builds up military
1936 sends troops into DMZ Rhineland
Western democracies denounced his moves, adopts policy of appeasement

15. Does appeasement work?
Britain and France saw the nasty fascist governments as a defense against the bigger evil of communism
Depression strapped democracies $
Adopted official policies of pacifism
Disgust of WWI pushed governments to avoid war at any costs

16. Neutrality Acts Passed by US Congress
Forbade the sale of arms to any nation at war
Outlawed loans to warring nations
Prohibited Americans from traveling on ships of warring nations
Avoid American involvement in any European war

17. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
In the face of apparent weakness of UK, France, and US
Japan, Germany, Italy form an alliance
Purpose:
Agreed to fight against Soviet communism
Agreed to stay out of each other’s plans for territorial expansion

19. Spain collapses into Civil War
1931 monarch removed from power
New democratic government set up
Internal fighting among political parties ensued

20. Spain collapses into Civil War
1936 Conservative Francisco Franco led revolt
Everybody jumps in- US, UK, Fr. Ger. It. USSR, etc
Both sides commit unspeakable atrocities

21. Hitler, Mussolini back Franco
Hitler and Mussolini use Spain as a playground to test their new style of fighting- blitzkrieg
Guernica, April 1937.
German planes drop their load of bombs
Swing low to machine gun any survivors
Over 1000 civilians killed
Prelude of what was to come…

22. Nationalist (Fascists) vs. …well everyone else

23. Picasso’s Guernica

26. Faces of Aggression
Benito Mussolini
Adolph Hitler

27. Faces of Aggression
Tojo Hideki
Francisco Franco

28. German Aggression continues…
All German people living under German space- “living space” Lebensraum
Beginning to create Aryan race
Germany had right to conquer Eastern Europe from the inferior Slavs
“Nature is cruel…therefore we, too, may be cruel…I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.” Hitler

29. Austria annexed
1938 Hitler engineers Anschluss- the union of Austria and Germany
1937 Hitler forced Austrian leader to appoint Nazi supporters into positions of power
German troops were sent to preserve peace
No international interference= success

30. Anschluss

32. Sudetenland. The Czech Crisis
Hitler demands that 3 million Germans living in Sudetenland be given autonomy
Then demands that Sudetenland be annexed to Germany

33. Sudetenland. The Czech Crisis
Munich Conference held 9/38
UK and France caved to Hitler’s demands and force Czech to give land to Germany

37. “Peace for Our Time”
Saved Czechoslovakia from destruction and Europe from Armageddon” Chamberlain told cheering crowds
“You fools, why are they cheering” Daladier of France asked of the crowds
“They had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor; they will have war.” Winston Churchill

38. Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
August 1939
World was stunned when Hitler and Stalin agreed to peaceful existence
Secretly, the 2 agreed to not fight each other if one went to war
Divided Poland and Eastern European among each other
Based upon mutual need

40. Invasion of Poland
One week after signing Nazi- Soviet Nonaggression Pact, Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939
September 3, 1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany