Section Write – Ch. 14, Sect. 1

1. Section Write – Ch. 14, Sect. 1 • Explain in two to three sentences which statement(s) below you agree with most and why.

2. From Appeasement to War Chapter 14, Section 1

3. CA Standards • 10.8.1 – Compare the German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empire in the 1930s, including the 1937 Rape of Nanking, other atrocities in China, and the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939. • 10.8.2 – Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II.

4. Purpose of the lesson/What you should be able to do • You will be able to explain how appeasement does not work with a dictator, and explain the horrible effects of WWII

5. Learning Styles

6. Over-Arching Question • What events unfolded between Chamberlain’s declaration of “peace for our time” and the outbreak of a world war?

7. Background Information • As Germany, Italy, and Japan conquer other countries, the rest of the world does nothing to stop them.

8. Instruction • Japan’s invasion of Manchuria and China (Second Sino-Japanese War)

10. When Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935, the League of Nations voted for sanctions (penalties) against them

11. By building up his military and then by sending troops into the Rhineland in 1936, Hitler violated the Versailles treaty • If the Western powers had stopped Hitler at this point, the War possibly could have been prevented or even halted for a time – this military push emboldened (encouraged) Hitler and the German people to expand more

12. Keeping the Peace • Appeasement

13. U.S. Pacifism • Read page 461, last paragraph on page

14. Neutrality Acts • Read paragraph on page 462

15. Axis Powers formed between Japan, Germany, and Italy (look on page 462 – Faces of Fascism)

16. The Nazis used the Spanish Civil War as a “dress rehearsal” for World War II by testing their new weapons. • Read 2nd to last paragraph on page 462

17. Links to Humanities • Turn to the next slide, and read “Links to Humanities”

19. Austria • Anschluss (political union) • http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7291420.stm - Austria remembers Nazi annexation

21. Czechoslovakia • At the Munich Conference in 1938, the British and French persuaded the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland to avoid war • “Hitler assured Britain and France that he had no further plans to expand his territory.” • http://encarta.msn.com/media_461531159_761563737_-1_1/signing_of_the_munich_pact.html

25. British politician Winston Churchill remarked concerning the western diplomats that attended the Munich conference: “They had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor; they will have war.”

26. GT31 Expansion of Nazi Germany, 1933–1939 BACKGROUND Upon climbing to power in 1933, Adolf Hitler played upon the fears of the western European democracies in order to expand Nazi Germany. In 1934, Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with Poland. In January 1935, the League of Nations held a plebiscite in the Saar region. Its people, under Nazi influence, voted to become part of Germany. In March 1936, Hitler defied the Versailles Treaty by sending troops into the Rhineland region. In March 1938, German troops moved into Austria and united it with Germany. Next, Hitler began the takeover of Czechoslovakia, which was the only democracy in central Europe and had a strong alliance with France. In the summer of 1938, he took the Sudetenland region, the mostly German-speaking fringe around the western half of Czechoslovakia. Hitler then proclaimed that Germany must have the rest of the country. In September of 1938, the Munich Conference convened to determine the fate of Czechoslovakia. Representatives of England, France, Italy, and Germany attended, but Czechoslovakia was not invited. The Munich agreement sentenced the remainder of Czechoslovakia to join the German Reich. Britain and France had hoped that this would be all that Hitler wanted, but he seized the Memel region in March 1939. He then started grumbling about German claims to Danzig and the Polish Corridor. In September 1939, Hitler’s armies crushed Poland. Britain and France then declared war, and World War II had begun.

28. 1930s-era Soviet poster by Kukryniksy showing Western powers giving Hitler Czechoslovakia on a dish. Inscription on the flag: "On towards the East!"

29. Show Publisher Material – Interactivemap ch.15, sect. 3

30. The Nazi-Soviet Pact gave Germany a free hand (pass) into Poland • For Russia, they would get part of Poland, as part of the secret part of the pact, and also give them time to prepare militarily to face the Axis powers

31. Wonder How Long the Honeymoon Will Last?

32. Homework • Read chapter 14, section 1

33. Closure/Conclusion (Day 2?) • What we have learned… • What events unfolded between Chamberlain’s declaration of “peace for our time” and the outbreak of a world war? • Germany invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia; Hitler announced a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union; Hitler invaded Poland. • Section Questions

34. Optional…

35. *****Read: The Bombing of Guernica, by Noel Monks – read individually and then we will have a class discussion

36. YouTube: Cartoon on Three little pig and Adolf Wolf (10 min.) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLYzzH0IF_Y