1 / 4

1920’s and 30’s

1920’s and 30’s. 1920’s People were happy WWI was over Great prosperity League of Nations was overall pretty successful Democracy throughout most of Europe 1930’s Great Depression hit Countries would do anything to increase wealth Rise of Fascism in Italy and Germany

armani
Télécharger la présentation

1920’s and 30’s

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. 1920’s and 30’s • 1920’s • People were happy WWI was over • Great prosperity • League of Nations was overall pretty successful • Democracy throughout most of Europe • 1930’s • Great Depression hit • Countries would do anything to increase wealth • Rise of Fascism in Italy and Germany • Fascism- Government, ruled by a dictator, controls the lives of the people • League of Nations failed

  2. Crisis in Manchuria Japan wanted to increase it’s wealth due to the depression 1932, Japan invaded part of China known as Manchuria China asked for help from the League The League spent a year reviewing the information, then ordered Japan to leave Japan refused to leave, decided to leave the League of Nations Japan was a strong trading partner and Britain and France didn’t want a war so nothing was done to Japan The League had failed at protecting one of it’s own nations

  3. Crisis in abyssinia Benito Mussolini (Italy) wanted to expand his empire, prepared to invade Abyssinia LoN tried to talk Mussolini out of invasion, created a secret pact that would give part of Abyssinia to Italy Mussolini ignored the League and invaded anyway Abyssinia asked for help from the League, they did nothing and Italy took over their country The League had failed again

  4. With a partner, create a list of three reasons why the League of Nations was a failure in these two situations. • Ex) The League saw Italy and Japan as strong trading partners and didn’t want to upset them

More Related