Causes of WWIISS 11 Chapter 5

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

Review of yesterday

APPEASEMENT• Hitler comes to power in 1933

• Germany Advances:

Rhineland (March 1936)

=> annexed Austria (March 1938)

=> annex of Sudetenland - Germans in Czech (Oct 1938)

British/German policy of appeasement “Peace In Our Time” (1938)

Czechoslovakia invaded (March 1939)

Danzig & East Prussia - “polish corridor” (Summer 1939)

Invasion of Poland (Sept 1939)

NAZI-SOVIET NON-AGGRESSION PACT

Hitler wanted Poland - Russia would see it as a threatDeal => Hitler take Poland give half to Soviets (Russia)Germany took Poland (Sept 1st)They order Germany out of Poland by Sept 3rd.

Britain & France declare war when Germany ignores the deadline.

FAILURE OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

No army to back it up. (Depression/No USA):Japan invades Manchuria (China). - Resources needed - League condemned ;Japan left League.Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia) - Angry that Italy received no land after WW I . - League boycott does not include oil . - => Hoped Italy would join against Germany.