Acts of Appeasement
- Poland wants land that was theirs in 18th century
- Russia wants land it had control of prior to WWI
- Russia defends attacks
- Settled at Peace of Riga
- League of Nations does nothing because Russia is not a member
- Japan owns South Manchurian Railway- Claims Manchuria in 1931 - Case for the league as both are members
- Japan quits League of Nations
- League decides that these have nothing to do with Europe and decides not to act
- Mussolini wanted to expand his empire
- Italy attacks and occupy's Abyssinia
- League once again does nothing
- Signals the end of the league although it is not disbanded until 1945
- 1935, Hitler brings conscription to Germany
- France, Britain and Italy meet to condemn Germany
- Mussolini loses interest in this agreement and forms a naval agreement with Hitler
- France signs treaty with U.S.S.R
- Germany re-militarizes the Rhineland in 1936 breaking Locarno pact
- Spanish king abdicates and a republic is formed
- Government formed is left wing, Right wing opposition led by General Francisco Franco
- Anchluss, 1938
- Austro-German treaty, Austria is a German cultural state
- German troops roll into Austria
- Passes a law that abolishes Austrian sovereignty
- Italy was the only country to object to this, but Mussolini gave his approval
- The Sudetenland was an ethnic German area where over 3.5 million Germans lived
- Neville Chamberlain wants the Czech leader to give it up
- Four powers agree to meet in Munich
- Munich agreement signed
- 3 powers allow Germany to take Sudetenland in return for peace
- all 4 powers agree and sign
- Neville Chamberlain returns to Britain stating that he secured "Peace for our time"
The League of Nations failed in stopping another major conflict by appeasing Hitler, perhaps even causing the Second World War
- Russia wants land it had control of prior to WWI
- Russia defends attacks
- Settled at Peace of Riga
- League of Nations does nothing because Russia is not a member
- Japan owns South Manchurian Railway- Claims Manchuria in 1931 - Case for the league as both are members
- Japan quits League of Nations
- League decides that these have nothing to do with Europe and decides not to act
- Mussolini wanted to expand his empire
- Italy attacks and occupy's Abyssinia
- League once again does nothing
- Signals the end of the league although it is not disbanded until 1945
- 1935, Hitler brings conscription to Germany
- France, Britain and Italy meet to condemn Germany
- Mussolini loses interest in this agreement and forms a naval agreement with Hitler
- France signs treaty with U.S.S.R
- Germany re-militarizes the Rhineland in 1936 breaking Locarno pact
- Spanish king abdicates and a republic is formed
- Government formed is left wing, Right wing opposition led by General Francisco Franco
- Anchluss, 1938
- Austro-German treaty, Austria is a German cultural state
- German troops roll into Austria
- Passes a law that abolishes Austrian sovereignty
- Italy was the only country to object to this, but Mussolini gave his approval
- The Sudetenland was an ethnic German area where over 3.5 million Germans lived
- Neville Chamberlain wants the Czech leader to give it up
- Four powers agree to meet in Munich
- Munich agreement signed
- 3 powers allow Germany to take Sudetenland in return for peace
- all 4 powers agree and sign
- Neville Chamberlain returns to Britain stating that he secured "Peace for our time"
The League of Nations failed in stopping another major conflict by appeasing Hitler, perhaps even causing the Second World War