Acts of Aggression

Leading to WWII

Acts of Aggression:

Why would one country want to take over another country?

•To Gain Power

•Gain that nations resources

•Expand for more room

•Regain what they had lost

•Get money

Soviet Union then turned to Finland and beat them.

Joseph Stalin

Germany takes the Rhineland annexes Austria, takes the Sudetenland, occupies Czechoslovakia.

Italy invades Ethiopia and Albania.

Japanese Occupation of Manchuria

• Sept. 8, 1931 : Japan occupies Manchuria Province

• Japan than invades Northern China, moves southward until it occupied most of the country.

The League of Nations responds to these acts of aggression by agreeing to watch for other threatened countries and agreed to withhold trade with these aggressive countries. They told Hitler it was a bad idea to go against the League of Nations.

The message of the cartoon is that Hitler may be bringing war, but it is the politicians of France and Britain who are to blame - for letting him. He believed that the rest of Europe would protest his actions but they would never take any action.

Chamberlain&Hitler1938

Great Britain, France and other European Leaders did not want to repeat the bloodshed of World War I. They believed, wrongly as it turned out, they could avoid another world war by appeasing Hitler by allowing him to keep Austria and Czechoslovakia. These leaders had not clearly understood that Hitler's goal of land acquisition was much, much larger than any one country.

Munich Conference

When Hitler broke the Munich Pact and invaded Western Poland, it was the last straw and Britain and France declare war on Germany.