CHAPTER 31 DEMOCRATIC WEAKNESS AND WORLD WAR II

The Troubled Calm: The West in the 1920s The League of Nations The French Quest for Security Soviet and German Cooperation

Epoch of the Aggressors Japan Invades Manchuria, 1931 Italy Attacks Ethiopia The Rhineland and the Axis The Spanish Tragedy

Epoch of the Aggressors Appeasement Toward Austria and the

Sudetenland Munich and Democratic Betrayal The Nazi-Soviet Pact

World War II A New Way of War Blitzkrieg and Sitzkrieg “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat” Mastery of Europe War with the Soviet Union The United States Enters the War

World War II The Apogee of the Axis The Russian Turning Point Axis Collapse The Holocaust The Atomic Bomb