Section 3

Question 0

List 5 reasons why Japan invaded Manchuria

Answer 0

Army had a lot of influence
Growing empire
Impact of depression
Railway incident (excuse)
Didn't feel like it got enough from TOV

Question 1

Manchuria

Answer 1

1931

Question 2

When did japan set up a puppet government in Manchuria?

Answer 2

February 1932

Question 3

What japan call Manchuria?

Answer 3

Manchukuo

Question 4

What did the league do when Manchuria was invaded?

Answer 4

Lytton committee which took 1 year
Condemned japan
Japan claimed it was in self defence
Japan left league

Question 5

When did japan leave the league?

Answer 5

March 1933

Question 6

Why did the league fail in Manchuria?

Answer 6

Economic sanctions didn’t work
Fear of war
USA and USSR closer and had more power

Question 7

Why did Mussolini invade Abyssinia?

Answer 7

Adowa 1896
Wealth and land
Glory/empire
Excuse in 1934 (30 Italian soldiers were killed in a dispute)

Question 8

What happened in Adowa?

Answer 8

Italy invaded but lost to poorly equipped tribesmen

Made Mussolini want revenge

Question 9

What was the Stresa Front?

Answer 9

Britain and France wanted to keep peace with Italy because wanted to keep peace
Mussolini changed it to ‘keep peace in Europe’ (France and Britain might have agreed to turn blind eye)

Question 10

What was the British people’s opinion on what was happening in Abyssinia?

Answer 10

Thy held a ballot which said British people supported military forces if necessary

Question 11

When did Mussolini invade?

Answer 11

October 1935

Question 12

What did the league do in Abyssinia?

Answer 12

Banned arm sales, rubber and iron sales and no loans and no imports from Italy
Didn’t stop selling oil
Didn’t close Suez Canal
Hoare-Laval pact

Question 13

What and when was the Hoare-Laval pact?

Answer 13

December 1935
British and France promised to give 2/3 of Abyssinia to Italy for calling off invasion
But it leaked to press so government pretended not to know anything as people were outraged

Question 14

Why did Italy keep Abyssinia?

Answer 14

Hitler invaded the Rhineland which was more or a priority in 1936

Question 15

Why did the League fail in Abyssinia?

Answer 15

Get of war
Possible ally in Italy
Economic sanctions didn’t work
Threat of hitler

Question 16

What were hitler’s aims?

Answer 16

Smash Treaty of Versailles
Lebensraum
Grossdeutschland
Destroy communism

Question 17

When was Anschluss?

Answer 17

1938

Question 18

What was Anschluss?

Answer 18

The union between Austria and Germany that was forbidden in TOV

Question 19

Why did Hitler want Anschluss?

Answer 19

For grossdeutschland
Italy was on his side (previously wasn’t)
He saw appeasement as weakness

Question 20

How did he achieve Anschluss?

Answer 20

Austrian chancellor appointed nazi (seyess inquart) to a position of power
Discovered hitler was going to overthrow so had a meeting to prevent further trouble.
Also announced he’d be holding a plebiscite to see if people wanted to stay independent.
The next morning German troops absorbed Austria into Germany.

Question 21

What were the effects of Andchluss?

Answer 21

Austrians didn’t resist
Italy did nothing
Britain and France took no action
A plebiscite said 99.75% Austrians supported Anschluss

Question 22

When did hitler invade the Sudetenland?

Answer 22

1938

Question 23

Why did hitler invade the Sudetenland?

Answer 23

3 million German speakers there
Czechoslovakia geographical position was a threat as it was deep into Germany
Extend grossdeutschland