Europe how Japan, Italy, and Germany tested the resolve of western democracies before 1937 Japan seized Manchuria in 1931- this success strengthened militarists. Main idea During the 1930's, dictators undermined world peace sanction penalties (look at "Haile Selassie") appeasement giving in to the demands of an aggressor to keep the peace pacifism opposition to all war Anschluss union of Austria and Germany Haile Selassie Ethiopian king mad about Mussolini's attempt at taking over Ethiopia went to the League of Nations for help Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis Italy, Germany, and Japan formed an alliance to fight Soviet communism wouldn't interfere with one another's plans for expansion cleared way for anti-democratic aggressor powers to take further steps Francisco Franco supporters: Fascists and rightists Nationalists: Franco's forces 1939: he triumphed- created a fascist dictatorship (like Hitler and Mussolini) used terror to promote order Guernica a small, innocent Spanish marked- bombed and machine-gunned as practice for the Germans to test warfare Munich Conference September 1938 British and French chose appeasement and caved into Hitler's demands for Sudetenland w/o a fight Neville Chamberlain British prime minister announced there was peace (when war was about to start) and that Czechoslovakia was saved Nazi-Soviet Pact bound Hitler and Stalin to peaceful relationship Hitler and Stalin agreed to: not fight if the other went to war, divide up Poland and parts of E.
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