1. Aggressors on the March

2. World Drifts to War Democracy struggles in Japan
They begin to become more democratic but no power to prime minister and cabinet
Military leaders took control due to economic problems
Were not forceful like Fascists in Europe
Kept emperor as state symbol
Then invaded Manchuria (China) as a way to help boost the economy in ways of foreign expansion
First challenge to League of Nations
League failed to stop Japan movement

3. World Drifts toward War
Mussolini Attacks Ethiopia
Encouraged by League inefficiency on Japan
Massive attack on Ethiopia
The league did nothing
Hitler Defies Versailles Treaty
Did not obey the restrictions said by the Versailles Treaty
Invaded the Rhineland (30 mile buffer zone)
GB urged appeasement, giving into an aggressor to keep peace
Gave Hitler the upper hand
Axis Powers: Germany made agreements with Italy and Japan

4. Western Democracies Fail to Halt Aggression
United States follows isolationism
Many Americans resisted accepting new position as #1
1935  Neutrality Acts, banned loans and the sale of arms to nations at war
German Reich Expands
Plan to absorb Austria and Czechoslovakia into Third Reich  then Poland and Russia
Annexed Austria (GB and France did nothing)
Next was Czech. over Sudentenland (a region of Germans in western Czech)
Germany asked for it
Czech asked for help from France

5. Western Democracies Fail to Halt Aggression
Britain and France Again Choose Appeasement
Munich Conference on Sept. 29,1938
GB, France, Italy, and Germany
GB said Germany can have Sudentenland and Germany respects new borders
Thought they had peace, but Germany invaded anyway
Nazis and Soviets Sign Nonaggression Pact

6. Create a timeline. Use the margin of your paper as the line
Create a timeline. Use the margin of your paper as the line. Put the dates to the right.
____ Germany and Russia signed a non-aggression pact. ____ Germany annexed Austria. ____ Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. ____ creation of the Axis Powers. ____ Germany invaded Poland. England and France declared war. ____ Germany took the Sudetenland. ____ France surrendered. Battle of Britain began. ____ Japan invaded Manchuria. ____ Germany invaded the Soviet Union. ____ Italy attacked Ethiopia. ____ Germany took the rest of Czechoslovakia.