THE ROAD TO WWII
Germany
Russia
Italy
Spain
Treaty of Versailles
Japan
League of Nations
China
America
Britain
France
German minorities in new-born countries
greatly reduced in size
massive 6.6B pounds debt
in German's misery a future dictator is arising, currently a saviour - Adolf Hitler
The Führer of Germany
secretly building up an army
Rhineland and Saarland gotten back
Austria subsumed into greater Germany
France and Britain sign an agreement to give the Sudeteland to Gemrany in return for a formal declaration by Hitler that he would have no further territorial ambitions
despite this, Hitler still proceeds to invade Poland on September 1st, 1939, launching the beginning of WWII
further territorial gains in Czechoslovakia
discrimitation and persecution of Jews and Romani people
astablished by the US
the US refuses to participate
fails
completely useless/futile
Benito Mussolini - dictator of Italy and founder of the fascist movement
renewed Italy's infrastructure
admirable navy
wanted to recreate the Roman Empire
Abyssinia and Ethiopia conquered
aknowledged world and military power
no natural resources to support the expanding economy
never-eding industrail and economical growth
Jazz Age
Manchuria - the perfect target
brutally conquers China
no help from the League of Nations
brutally conquered by Japan
pact with Hitler
American gunboat sunk
defensive military approach
cannot launch an attack
iconomically and military weak
the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, decides to act as a peacemaker and meets with Hitler to attempt resolve the crisis
lost in the pursuit of joy
The Great Depression
becomes a Republic
Nationalist situation changed after Hitler's and Mussolini's intervention
international help for the Republic by volunteers from different countries(the International Brigades)
Basque ton virtually oblitarated
mass revolution by the workers
Josef Stalin
helps Spain's Republic
fears the rise of fascism in Germany
non-aggression pact with Germany - later broken by Hitler
Austria-Hungary split into Austria, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estnonia
contributed to German economic and political instability that allowed for the formation of the Nazis