Transcript Marching Toward War Again!

Marching
Toward
War
Again!
Japanese Aggression
The
Manchurian
Incident
• Japan needs raw materials
• Mysterious explosion in the night (1931)
• Japan takes over Manchuria
League of Nations Response
• Lytton Commission Report
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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
Marco Polo Bridge
• Beijing 1937
– Japanese soldier missing
– Japanese troops “practicing” in
the area
• Begins Sino-Japanese War
• Rape of Nanjing (Dec. 1937)
• Flying Tigers
Italy’s Revenge
• 1935 Invade Ethiopia
• Guns v. Spears
• Haile Selassie - Ethiopian
leader asks for help from
the League of Nations
– gets no help
Germany’s Steps to WWII
Germany Rearms
Troops enter the Rhineland
Spanish Civil War (1937)
• Rome - Berlin Axis
created
• Support General Franco
(fascist)
• Test out new weapons
• Guernica (1937)
Picasso painting of the atrocities of Guernica
Anschluss (Union) with Austria
(1938)
• Hitler to Austrian President… “Join or die!”
• Chooses not to die, Austria annexed by
Germany
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
Chamberlain: “Please stop
Adolf!”
Hitler: “After Sudentenland, I
promise. I swear. Really. No
more invasions.”
– Chamberlain: “Yeah! Peace in
our time. Thanks Hitler! Your
swell!”
• 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