Early Acts of Appeasement
Failure of the League Of Nations
-Usa doesn't join
-Germany joins 1926- pulls out in 1933
-Lack of enforcement (only economic sanctions)
-Too Closely linked with the treaty of versailles
-Nationalism too strong (big guys don't want little guys to tell them what to do)
-"Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive"
examples:
Japanese Occupation of Manchuria, 1931
-Japan owns South Manchurian railway
-Military operation in 1931 claiming Manchuria (renamed Munchukuo)
-1932 - League's Lytton Commission decides Japan to leave
-Japan quits the league - invades northern china 1933
-Legue decides this has no effect on Europe - and ignores this situation
-Two men in europe take notice - Hitler, Mussolini
Italian occupation of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), 1935
-Italy had interest in colony since 1895
-Mussolini wanted to expand his empire (Imperialism)
-1934, an incident is set up where Italians are killed (giving them a reason to invade)
-Ethiopia appealed to the league
-Germany joins 1926- pulls out in 1933
-Lack of enforcement (only economic sanctions)
-Too Closely linked with the treaty of versailles
-Nationalism too strong (big guys don't want little guys to tell them what to do)
-"Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive"
examples:
Japanese Occupation of Manchuria, 1931
-Japan owns South Manchurian railway
-Military operation in 1931 claiming Manchuria (renamed Munchukuo)
-1932 - League's Lytton Commission decides Japan to leave
-Japan quits the league - invades northern china 1933
-Legue decides this has no effect on Europe - and ignores this situation
-Two men in europe take notice - Hitler, Mussolini
Italian occupation of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), 1935
-Italy had interest in colony since 1895
-Mussolini wanted to expand his empire (Imperialism)
-1934, an incident is set up where Italians are killed (giving them a reason to invade)
-Ethiopia appealed to the league
End of the league of Nations
-League does not repond - Italy invades
-Economic sanctions threatened by league
-Hoare-Laval plan gives most of Ethiopia to Italy if fighting stopped
-Plan undermines the league
-People loose interest - Mussolini complestes conquest
-Signals the end of the league (Still exists until 1945)
-Economic sanctions threatened by league
-Hoare-Laval plan gives most of Ethiopia to Italy if fighting stopped
-Plan undermines the league
-People loose interest - Mussolini complestes conquest
-Signals the end of the league (Still exists until 1945)
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Germany rearms - Militarizes the Rhineland
-1935 Hitler introduces conscription in Germany
-France, Britain and Italy form the Stresa front to condemn Hitler's actions
-1935 Mussolini signs naval agreement with hitler
-March 1936 Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland (Breaking the Locarno Pact)
-France, Britain and Italy form the Stresa front to condemn Hitler's actions
-1935 Mussolini signs naval agreement with hitler
-March 1936 Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland (Breaking the Locarno Pact)
Summary
As the League of nations turned a blind eye to many of the examples of Fascism making a rise, Italy and Germany took advantage and began to gain power.