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