Early acts of Appeasement
Failures of the League of Nations
- USA does not join
- Germany Joins in 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)
Japanese occupation of Manchuria 1931
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Italian occupation of Abyssinia 1935 (ehtipia)
- Italy had interest in colony since 1895
- Mussolini wanted to expand his empire (imperialism)
- 1934 an incident is set up where italians are killed
- Ethiopia appealed to the League
The end of the League
- League does not respond Italy invades
- Economic sanctions threatened by League
- Hoare-Laval plan gives most of Ethiopia to italy if fighting stopped
- Plan undermines the league
- People lose interest -Mussolini completes conquest
- Singals end of the League (still exsists until 1945)
Germany Rearms- militirizes the Rhine land
- 1935 Hitler introduces conscription in Germany
- FRance,Britain, and italy from the STRESA front to condemn hitlers actions
- 1935 Mussolini signs naval agreement with HItler
- March 1936 HItler Remilitarizes the Rhine land (breaking the Locarno pact)