1. From Appeasement To War
14.1 Notes

2. I. Aggression Goes Unchecked
Japan overruns Manchuria
League of Nations does nothing
Italy invades Ethiopia
League voted sanctions but did not enforce
Hitler re-arms and occupies Rhineland
Both violations of Versailles treaty

3. II. Appeasement and Neutrality
Appeasement- giving in to the demands of an aggressor
United States passes Neutrality Acts
Neutrality Acts- laws that forbid loans or selling of arms to nations at war
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis- agreement to fight communism and not interfere with each other

4. III. Why the West Appeased Hitler
Fear of modern weaponry
Pacifism following WWI
Pacifism- opposition to all war
Great Depression
Faith in diplomacy
Fascism a defense vs. communism

5. IV. Spain Collapses Into Civil War
Francisco Franco- led a revolt that turned into a civil war
Hitler, Mussolini supported Franco
Stalin supported his opponents
Spain was used by Hitler as a testing ground for new weapons
Guernica- Spanish town that was bombed, 1,600 innocents die
Franco becomes fascist dictator

6. V. German Aggression Continues
Austria Annexed
Called Anschuluss
Nazis already controlled top government posts
Hitler just walked in and took it
Czech crisis
Hitler wanted Sudetenland, a German speaking portion of Czechoslovakia

7. VI. The Munich Conference
Munich Conference- West persuaded Czech to surrender Sudetenland to Hitler to avoid war
British PM Chamberlain declared “peace for our time”
Hitler assured them that there were no further plans to expand

8. VII. Europe Plunges Toward War
March 1939 Hitler takes the rest of Czech
Britain, France pledge to defend Poland, Hitler’s likely next target
Nazi-Soviet Pact- non- aggression pact
Secretly agreed not to fight if one went to war and to divide up Eastern Europe and Poland
September 1st, Hitler invades Poland
WWII begins