League Of Nations Flashcards
Who was the leader and what country developed the League of Nations?
By US and Woodrow Wilson was the leader
What was the goal of the League of Nations?
To keep peace
Why did Japan invade Manchuria?
Japan wanted an empire that was equal to if not better than the other countries in Europe
What did the League of Nations do about the invade on Manchuria?
Demanded that they remove all troops Manchuria, but Japan didn’t care and didn’t listen
Who withdrew from the League of Nations?
Japan
How did Italy invade Ethiopia?
Italy wanted revenge on Ethiopia in Africa because of the battle lost to them in WWI
What happened when Ethiopia asked the League of Nations for help?
They put sanctions on Italy for invading without reason but Italy didn’t care and they captured Ethiopia anyway
How did hitler ignore the treaty of Versailles?
- built up military
- sent troops into a demilitarized Rhineland bordering France
Demilitarized
Land without military
What did the League of Nations do to not make German mad?
Adopted a policy of appeasement
Appeasement
Giving into demands of Germany to keep the peace
What are the similarities between Japan, Italy, and Germany
- invaded land
- didn’t listen to the League of Nations
- wanted to be a world power
- didn’t like how WWI ended
What was the League of Nations?
A system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve peace
Why did countries give into Japan, Italy, and Germany?
- They were afraid of WW2
- They didn’t have money to go to war
- Communism in the USSR was a bigger threat
Pacifism
Opposition to all war
Who passed the neutrality act
The U.S.
What was the goal of the neutrality act
To avoid evolvement in the European war
What was the neutrality act
- No sale of weapons to a country at war
- Holland given to country at war
- No US citizens should travel on a ship of a warring nation
What was the Rome Berlin Tokyo axis?
These countries created an alliance
What did all three countries agree on?
To hate the USSR
to stay out of each others plans
Hitler was run niña out of Romo for shot race?
Aryan race (blinde bajar blues Eyes)
Ahí was hilera old alojes from ww1?
Austria
What did hitler demand?
Anschluss
What is an Anschluss
Union between Austria and Germany
Did austra agree to work with Germany?
No but they had no choice
What did European powers do about hitler taking over Austria
Nothing
What land did hitler want in wester Czechoslovakia?
Sudetenland
Why did hitler want the Sudetenland?
It was more room for the Aryan race
How many Germans were living in Sudetenland
3 million
What was the Munich conference
Britain and France had a meeting with Germany to discuss Germany’s demands
What did france and Britain decide to give Germany?
Appeasement because they didn’t want war so they gave Germany the Sudetenland
What did Germany lie about?
Not expanding their territory
Who was hitters next Allie
Stalin
Hitler and Stalin agreed:
Not to fight if the other went to war
Divide up Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe
The pact was based on the need to become?
A world power
Why did hitler sign the pact
Wanted Poland
Didn’t want to fight Britain, France, and USSR
Why did Stalin sign the pact
Wanted allies
Wanted territory
