1. Marching Toward War Again!

2. Japanese Aggression

3. The Manchurian Incident
Japan needs raw materials
Mysterious explosion in the night (1931)
Japan takes over Manchuria

4. League of Nations Response
Lytton Commission Report
committee goes to Manchuria
blames Japan and China
Japan decides to quit the League
demonstrates weakness of the League
Stimson Doctrine
U. S. policy to not recognize any country taken over by force

5. Marco Polo Bridge Beijing 1937 Begins Sino-Japanese War
Japanese soldier missing
Japanese troops “practicing” in the area
Begins Sino-Japanese War
Rape of Nanjing (Dec. 1937)
Flying Tigers

6. Italy’s Revenge 1935 Invade Ethiopia Guns v. Spears
Haile Selassie - Ethiopian leader asks for help from the League of Nations
gets no help

7. Germany’s Steps to WWII

8. Germany Rearms

9. Troops enter the Rhineland

11. Spanish Civil War (1937) Rome - Berlin Axis created
Support General Franco (fascist)
Test out new weapons
Guernica (1937)

12. Picasso painting of the atrocities of Guernica

13. Anschluss (Union) with Austria (1938)
Hitler to Austrian President… “Join or die!”
Chooses not to die, Austria annexed by Germany

14. Munich Crisis (1938) Hitler focused on Sudetenland
“German’s in trouble and need support”
Britain Prime Minister (Chamberlain) flies to Munich to meet with Hitler

15. Chamberlain: “Please stop Adolf!”

16. Hitler: “After Sudentenland, I promise. I swear. Really
Hitler: “After Sudentenland, I promise. I swear. Really. No more invasions.”

17. Chamberlain: “Yeah! Peace in our time. Thanks Hitler! Your swell!”

18. Appeasement: giving in to the demands of another to avoid war.
Neville Chamberlain: British Prime Minister who followed the policy of appeasement to avoid war with Germany