Review• Who were the dictators?• What factors helped them

come to power?• What did they do once in

power?• Scapegoat – • Fascism –• Purge –• Propaganda –• Totalitarianism –

Road to War: Aggression and Appeasement

Mizell, Year II, Humanities

EQs: (1)How did aggression and appeasement lead to war?(2) How did the dictators violate the Treaty of Versailles?

Background• League of Nations was weak

• Britain and France want to avoid war

• In Germany, Hitler and Nazis desire lebensraum (living space for the German people)

Aggression of the 1930s by the dictators

• 1931 – Japan invades Manchuria

• 1935 – Mussolini takes over Ethiopia

• 1935 – Hitler ignores Treaty of Versailles and builds up German military

• 1936 – Hitler occupies the Rhineland (area between France and Germany)

• 1937 – Japan invades China

• 1938 – Hitler annexes Austria

• 1938 – Hitler wants the Sudetenland (area of Czechoslovakia)

• Munich Conference – meeting where Neville Chamberlain of Britain agrees to let Hitler have the Sudetenland to avoid war. Hitler promises not to invade the rest of Czechoslovakia

• This is an example of appeasement

“Peace for our time” declares Neville Chamberlain

• 1939 – Hitler seizes the rest of Czechoslovakia

• 1939 – Mussolini conquers Albania

What does Appeasement prove to the Dictators?

• They can continue to be aggressive because the other countries want to avoid war and must be weak

• The League of Nations has no real power

Directions

• Use the Appeasement-Aggression sheet to fill in the T-chart and answer the questions on the back of the graphic organizer

Current Aggression• Russia in the Ukraine