Chapter 25 Section 1

 Main Ideas  Hitler's belief of racial domination laid the foundation for aggressive expansion of Germany.  Needs more land for Aryan empire  Will look to Soviet Union  Needs Slave labor to build Third Reich  Turns to the Slavie People  Hitler Violates the Treaty of Versailles, forms new alliances, makes demands, and invades countries The German Path to War

 Hitler send troops into Rhineland  Part of Germany, but in their demilitarized zone.  Not supposed to have weapons or fortifications according to the treaty of Versailles.  Brittan's Appeasement  Brittan didn’t agree with the use of force against Germany  Believed Germany occupying their own territory as reasonable  Believed that through appeasement, Germany and All of Europe would achieve peace Hitler Violates Treaty

Why was Germany prohibited from having troops in the Rhineland?

 Italy  Benito Mussolini  Italy’s Prime Minister  Dreamed of new Roman Empire  Invades Ethiopia, October 1935  This angers France & Britain  1936  Mussolini & Hitler help General Francisco Franco in Spanish Civil War  Create the Rome-Berlin Axis, creating an alliance between Italy and Germany  Germany creates an alliance with Japan by signing the Anti-Comintern Pact. Promising a common front against communism. New Alliances

 1937  Germany once again a World Power  Hitler didn't believe France or Brittan gave much opposition to his plan  Hitler, an native Austrian planned a Anschluss (AHN-shloos) or Union with Austria  Did this by threatening Austria with invasion  Forced Austrian chancellor to put Austrian Nazi’s in charge of the government  New government invite German troops into Austria  Next day Hitler annex's Austria into Germany Union with Austria

 Hitler next objective is to deconstruct Czechoslovakia  1938 – Hitler demands Germany be given Sudetenland (soo-deyt-n-land) an area in northwestern Czechoslovakia.  Sudetenland largely inhabited by Germans  Expresses he will risk world war to active this objective  The Czech’s stood by helplessly as Brittan, France German, and Italian leaders agreed to virtually all of Hitler's demands.  This is the highpoint of appeasement by Europe to Hitler.  Brittan’s Prime Minister will boast that the this agreement will mean “Peace For Our Time”  Believed Hitler when he said he would make no more demands Demands and Appeasement

 Hitler is now convinced the Western democracies wont fight  March 1939, Hitler invades Bohemia & Moravian (maw-rey-vee- uh n ) Western Czechoslovakia  In Eastern Czechoslovakia, Slovakia becomes controlled by the Nazi Germany as well  Hitler then demands the Polish Port of Danzig  Great Brittan finally realizes the German danger and offer to help Poland  Great Brittan and France now realize they will need help from the soviet Union to stop Hitler and the Nazi Aggression  Both countries begin negations with the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin Great Brittan and France React

 Hitler is still convinced Western Europe wont fight him over Poland  Worried about the Soviet Union, Hitler makes agreement with Stalin  August 23, 1939 – Germany & Soviet Union Sign Nonaggression Pact  Hitler offers Stalin control over Eastern Poland and the Baltic States  He never really believes he will deliver this promise because he knew he would eventually fight the Soviets. Hitler and the Soviets

 Hitler will shock the world with the Soviet Nonaggression Pact  The soviet agreement gave Hitler the freedom to attack Poland  September 1, 1939 – German forces invade Western Poland  2 days later Brittan and France declare war on Germany Germany Invades Poland

Where did Hitler believe he could find more space to expand Germany?

 September 18, 1931 – Japanese soldiers disguised as Chinese blew up section of the Manchurian Railroad.  Wanted to make it look as if Chinese blew the railroad up  Will give the Japanese justification for taking Manchuria  This will lead Japan into a expansionist policy to enlarge Japan  Leads to League of Nations sending in investigators  The league of nations issue a report condemning the incident  Japan will withdraw from the League of Nations  Although the United States doesn’t recognize Japans takeover of Manchuria they refuse to threaten force.  Over the next several years Japan will take control of Mongolia, North China around Beijing The Japanese Path to War

 Chiang Kai-Shek - Chinese emperor didn’t want war with Japan because he feared the communist more.  Decides to let Japan govern North China to appease the Japanese  PROBLEM  Japan continues Southward  1936 Chiang ended his war effort against the communist to focus on Japan’s continual southward movement  December 1937 Japan seizes the China Capital of Nanjing  Japan destroys the capital city and massacres about 100,000 civilians and prisoners of war.  Became know as the “Rape of Nanjing” War With China

 Japan wanted China to join a New Order comprising of Japan, Manchuria, and China  Japan believed they would guide this new Asian Order to prosperity  With this order Japan planned to sieve Soviet Serbia because if its rich resources  In the 1930’s Japan begins working with Nazi Germany  Japan believed that both they and Germany would attack the Soviet Union to divide the resources  Had to look elsewhere to defeat the Soviets due to the Nonaggression Pact Germany had signed in 1939 with the Soviets The New Asian Order

 Fear of war with the United States, Japan still attacked French Indochina to exploit their desperately needed resources  The United States warns Japan it will apply economic sanctions in the effort to enforce international law  Japan need the scrap metal and oil it was receiving from the United States  Viewed this as a threat of it long term objectives  Japan decides to launch a attack on European and United States colonies in Southeast Asia Japan Launces Attack

Why did Japan want to establish a New Order in East Asia?

Create a chart to list examples of Japanese and German aggression prior to the outbreak of World War II Japanese AggressionGerman Aggression