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Agenda

1. Drill: to appease someone means to bring about a state of peace usually by sacrificing one’s principles. List 2 times in your life that you (or someone you know) has appeased someone else. What was the result?

2. Homework: Read and outline pages 623 – 625, “The Japanese Path to War.”

ISN’T IT IRONIC?19.1

Paths to War

World War I – A War to End All Wars?

Steps to Avoid War1. League of Nations – a general association of

nations designed to keep peace among nations.

2. Kellogg-Briand Pact – renounces war. Signed by most European countries after WWI (signed in 1928)

3. Appeasement - policy used by Britain and France of giving in to an aggressor to keep the peace

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Agenda

Drill – explain appeasement in your own words.

No new HW, make sure your outlines are awesome by tomorrow.

Hitler violates the Treaty Hitler built up army and created an air force Drafted soldiers Sent troops into the demilitarized Rhineland Later said he would have backed down if the

French and British had challenged him Hitler saw that Britain and France would let him

get away with anything

Hitler goes too far:1936 – Hitler reoccupies Rhineland

-- Also signs alliance with Italy and Japan

1938 – Hitler annexes Austria1938 – Hitler invades Czechoslovakia1939 – Hitler demands parts of Poland

-- France and Britain finally get mad

Germany Invades Polandsigns non-aggression pact with Soviet Union –

Germany and Soviet Union promise not to attack each other. Hitler promises Stalin ½ of Poland.

Dropped bombs on Warsaw - Blitzkrieg (lightning war)

Poland fell to the Germans almost immediately2 days later, France and Britain declared war on

Germany

German battle-ship shellingWesterplattein Poland

Soviet troops invade Poland

The Soviets AdvanceSoviet troops occupy eastern Poland shortly

after the German invasionThen Stalin sends Russian troops to Finland

Russia won in 1940

Finnish army on skis, and Russian tank in sub-freezing temperatures

Phony War7 months later still no fightingBritish and French troops lined the Maginot

Line and waited for the Germans to attackGermans first invaded and conquered

Denmark and Norway.

The Maginot Line

The Battle for FranceDistracts France and goes around the

Maginot Line with different troopsFrench ran away to the beaches of Dunkirk. 850 British ships then sailed down to rescue

the French armyRescued 338,000 French soldiers!

British troops evacuating Dunkirk's beaches. Many French stood shoulder deep in water for hours, waiting to board the warships.

Dunkirk-rescued French troops disembarking in England.

Fall of FranceJune 22, France surrenders Germans control northern Francesouthern France under control of French prime

minister, Marshal PetainPetain was in charge of the French “puppet”

government in Vichy, FranceCharles de Gaulle, fled to Britain and led the

Free French Military force that fought the Nazis until France’s liberation in 1944

Pétain shaking hands with Hitler

Exit question: using facts from today’s notes, tell me whether or not – in your opinion – WWII could have been prevented.