Chapter 31 Section 4 Graphic Organizer-Aggressors On The March. 1931-Japan Invades Manchuria.

Why did Britain and France take no action against Italian aggression? They were both desperate to avoid another war. British prime minister wanted to preserve peace by giving into Hitler’s demand.

How did other countries help Franco’s Nationalist forces bring about the colapse of Republican resistance? Soviet Union sent equipment and advisors. Why did Stalin sign an agreement with Fascist Germany, once a bitter enemy? They pleged never to attack one another.

Why was the Munich conference unsuccessful? The czars were not invited, and the British parliament disagreed. Why did Stalin sign an agreement with fascist Germany? Was hitler well received in Saar, the Rhineland, and Austria?

The Munich Agreement was an astonishingly successful strategy for the Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) in the months leading up to World War II. 30, 1938, and in it, the powers of Europe willingly conceded to Nazi Germany’s demands for the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia to keep “peace in our time.”

British and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest.

A direct consequence of the Munich Conference was the occupation of the Sudetenland by Germany, which led to Hitler invading the rest of the Czechoslovakia. When the Munich conference gave Hitler the right to Sudetenland, leaders such as Chamberlin believed they had appeased Hitler and avoided war.

Conference held in Munich on September 28–29, 1938, during which the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations.

Munich Agreement, (September 30, 1938), settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia.

But, despite his promise of ‘no more territorial demands in Europe’, Hitler was undeterred by appeasement. In March 1939, he violated the Munich Agreement by occupying the rest of Czechoslovakia. Six months later, in September 1939, Germany invaded Poland and Britain was at war.

Appeasement was a mistake because it did not prevent war. Instead, it only postponed the war, which was actually a bad thing. Postponing the war was a bad thing because all it did was to give Hitler time to increase his power. When Hitler started violating the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was still rather weak.

<26> John Armitage hoped that Germany would stop seeking peace through the weapons of war and Britain would seek cooperation and peace with Hitler. The appeasement opposition criticized the Munich agreement as a humiliating surrender that did not establish a stable peace.

Seventy years ago today, the German Army launched the Ardennes Counteroffensive, better known as the Battle of the Bulge. As the last major German offensive in the west, it was the final attempt to beat back the advancing Allied armies, which since June 6, 1944, had moved rapidly across France and Belgium.

For his part, Hitler wanted a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union so that his armies could invade Poland virtually unopposed by a major power, after which Germany could deal with the forces of France and Britain in the west without having to simultaneously fight the Soviet Union on a second front in the east.

Reparations imposed on Germany following WWI left the company poorer and economic woes caused resentment amongst its population. The Great Depression of the 1930s and a collapse in international trade also worsened the economic situation in Europe, allowing Hitler to rise to power on the promise of revitalization.

Appeasement in Europe allowed it to continue until finally, Germany’s behavior could no longer be tolerated. Therefore, the failure of the League of Nations was the primary cause of World War II because it led to a series of events that triggered German aggression, ultimately causing World War II.