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League of Nations Part 2
The League decided that Finland would remain in control of the Island but no wepons were permited to be there to make sure that there was no military motive. Both sdes agreed, and the League kept these two countries from going to war. The ultiamte goal of the League was to stop war. After the horrers of WWI, this was greatly needed. -
League of Nations Part 3
The significance of the League is emmense. The tried to stop war and they succeeded a few times, unfortuantly, the human desire to gain power and hurt eachother took over. The League dissolved after WW2 in 1946. It was decided that the League was unsuccssful. -
League of Nations Part 1
The League of Nations was an organization that had the goal of promoting world peace and cooperation. The League was not very successful in the long run. Although, it did have some success. In 1921, shortly after the league was created, the aland islands almost directly between Finilad and Sweeden, wanted to be goverend by Sweeden. The problem was that traditionaly Finland owned the island. The two countries didn't know who should have control of the island. They asked the League to adudicate. -
Japanese Invaision of Manchuria Part 1
In 1931, a Japanese built railroad, in the province of Manchuria in China, was bombed. Many people believe that it was a staged attack by Japan itself. Either way Japan launched a full invaision on Manchuria and by 1932, they controlled all of the mafior cities and most of the province in general. As the ultimate show of disrespect they renamed the province Manchukuo asnd claimed it as their own. The signifficance of this event is that it was the ultimate test of the League of Nations. -
Japanese Invaision of Manchuria Con't
The League ultiamtely failed to resolved the issue and this event also ended up being a precurser to what would lead up to be as WW2. Hitler and the German army, The Nazi's, saw this as motivation to say that they can break the rules of the League of Nations if Japan can. -
Hitler's Program of Rearmament
Nazi Germany's program of Re-armament occured in 1933 when Hitler himslef openly stated that he would break the "unjust terms" of the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler stated that the Jews and the Eastern Europeans did not have a place in Europe. He would get rid of the "Sub-human" Europeans and create the Empire of Germany as the Centeral power in the world. The signifacance of the Re-armament of Nazi Germany is that this was basically a declaration of war against the entire world. -
The Invaision of Abyssinia
In october of 1935, two Italian armies invaded Abyssinia. This was another attempt for the Italians to unify their African colonies. The Italian army was successful this time and took over Abyssinia, what is now known as Ethiopia. The signifficance of this attack is that the Italians broke the Geneva protocol where cointries were not allowed to use chemical wepons. The Italians did anyway. After there was no intervention from major powers, Hitler saw this as proof that German enemies were weak. -
The Reoccupation of the Rhineland
The Rhineland is the very western edge of Germany. Germany was banned from having military troops in this region as stated in the treaties that came out of WWI. The remilitarization of the Rhineland by the German Army took place on 7 March 1936 when German military forces entered the Rhineland. This was significant because it violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties, marking the first time since the end of World War I that German troops had been in this region. -
The Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War[nb 2] was fought from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939 between the Republicans, who were loyal to the established Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists, a rebel group led by General Francisco Franco. The Nationalists prevailed and Franco would rule Spain for the next 36 years. The signifficance of this war is that it altered the balance of power in Europe. -
Anshluss With Austria
In 1938 Hitler announced that the Germans and the Austrians had joined as one nation. Hitler had been pursuing this for a long time, being a native of Austria himself. This was signifficant because it violated all of the treaties the were put in place after WWI. They had these treaties to prevent war and for the rest of Europe, this meant war. -
The Munich Conference
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia's areas along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined. The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe without the presence of Czechoslovakia. -
German Invaision of Czechoslovakia
Following the Anschluss of Nazi Germany and Austria, in March 1938, the conquest of Czechoslovakia became Hitler's next ambition. The incorporation of the Sudetenland into Nazi Germany left the rest of Czechoslovakia weak and it became powerless to resist subsequent occupation. On 16 March 1939, the German Wehrmacht moved into the remainder of Czechoslovakia. The occupation ended after the German surrender following WWII. This was signifficant because it basically marked the beginning of WWII. -
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. The signifficance of the pact is that Germany had protected itself from having to fight a two-front war in the soon-to-begin World War II; the Soviet Union was awarded land, including parts of Poland and the Baltic States. The pact was broken when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union less than two years later, on June 22, 1941. -
The Invaision of Poland
On September 1, 1939 the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on the Polish garrison of the Westerplatte Fort, Danzig, in what was to become the first military engagement of World War Two. Simultaneously, 62 German divisions supported by 1,300 aircraft commenced the invasion of Poland. This is signifficant because it began the first official battle of WWII.
