1. Aggression Leads to War
Chapter 24 Section 1
Aggression Leads to War

2. Japanese Militarists - Japan
Political movement and beliefs – nationalism; militaristic expansionism
Aggressive actions taken in the 1920’s and 1930’s – the invasion of Manchuria; pulled out of the League of Nations

3. Benito Mussolini - Italy
Political movements and beliefs – facism; extreme nationalism; militaristic expansionism; private property; strong centralized government; anti-communism
Aggressive actions taken in the 1920’s and 1930’s – The “March on Rome”; Rome-Berlin Axis Pact; invasion of Ethiopia

4. Adolf Hitler - Germany
Political movements and beliefs – Nazism; extreme nationalism and racism; militaristic expansionism; private property; a strong government; anti-communism
Aggressive actions taken in 1920’s and 1930’s – established Third Reich; pulled out of League of Nations; built up military; sent troops to the Rhineland; set up the Rome-Berlin Axis Pact

5. Joseph Stalin - Soviet Union
Political movements and beliefs – communism; the spread of communism by workers revolutions throughout the world; state ownership of property; eventual rule by working class
Aggressive actions taken in the 1920’s &1930’s – massive campaigns to collectivize agriculture and to industrialize the nation; The Great Purge

6. Francisco Franco - Spain
Political movement and beliefs – facism; militarism
Aggressive actions taken in the 1920’s and 1930’s – an uprising against the elected government; civil war

7. U.S – Caught in between it all
America does its best to remain neutral throughout 1930’s. But finds this position to be increasingly difficult!

8. Good Neighbor Policy
1930 Hoover strikes down the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine!
FDR – Good Neighbor Policy withdrew troops from Nicaragua and Haiti
FDR also cancelled the Platt Amendment which limited Cuba’s independence

9. War Begins in Europe
Poland – August 1939 Hitler and Stalin agreed to take over Poland (Nazi-Soviet Pact)
Soviets also take over Finland, Estonia, Latvia, & Lithuania
Britain and France declare war on Germany for Hitler’s actions
In the first years of the war Germany is unstoppable taking over Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, & Luxembourg.

10. Fall of France & Battle of Britain
Even with Britain’s help France falls to Hitler quickly on June 22, 1940
Germany looked as if it would not be stopped at this point
Hitler next ordered bombing missions on Britain day after day this continued through summer and fall of 1940
British P.M.-Winston Churchill fires up British spirit and they never give up
Hitler finally moves on

11. Hitler double-crosses Stalin
Summer Hitler then gets greedy and stabs Stalin in the back
Hitler knows that the Soviets are not strong and marches his troops into the Soviet Union
Churchill and Stalin do not trust or like each other very well, but they must now align to fight back the German forces together
This is the beginning of the end for Germany and Hitler