SGQ9

Why was the time period 1933 to 1939 such a crucial era in world history?
MWH p.69-84
1. Relations between Japan and China
a. Japanese invasion of Manchuria
i. why? control of the valuable trade outlet
ii. who supported them? who was opposed? no one
iii. what was done? nothing
b. Japanese advance from Manchuria
i. explain - they invaded for no apparent reason
c. Further invasions
i. explain - they keep pushing further into china
ii. what did the League of Nations do? nothing

2. Mussolini's foreign policy
a. 1923-1934 (summarize)
i. He attended the Locarno conference
ii. He was friendly to greece, hungary, and albania
iii. he made good relations with england
iv. recognised the ussr
v. anti-german

b. after 1934 - how had Mussolini's attitude changed? examples:
i. joins england and france in condeming the germans
ii. invades abyssinia
1. what did the League of Nations do? disband
iii. helps Franco of spain
iv. rome-berlin axis
v. munich agreement raises popularity
vi. occupy albania
vii. pact of steel

3. Hitler's foreign policy
a. aims
i. destroy versailles treaty
ii. build army
iii. recover territory
iv. bring all germans together
b. successes
i. move cautiously at first
ii. 10 yr nonagression pact with poles
iii. anschluss
iv. take the saar
v. conscription
vi. anglogerman naval agreement
vii. troops to rhineland
viii. join forces with japan and italy
ix. anschluss

4. Appeasement
a. what is appeasement? summarize the two phases:
i. war avoided at all costs
ii. negotiation over force

b. how was it justified?
i. avoid war
ii. germitaly had grievances
iii. personal contact
iv. economic cooperaation of anglogermany
v. fear of russia
vi. brits are unprepared for war
c. what was the role of appeasement leading up to WWII?
i. no stopping germany
ii. anglogerman naval agreement
iii. halfheaarted british action against italy
iv. no mobilisation
v.frabrit doesnt stop the spanish war
vi. united germans
5. Munich to the outbreak of war
a. Czechoslovakia - what were the three steps to the conquest of Czechoslovakia?
i.propoganda
ii.munich conference
iii.its destruction
b. Poland - what were the two steps to the conquest of Poland?
i.return of daanzig
ii.invasion