early acts of APPEASEMENT
failures of the league of nations
- USA does not join League of Nations
- Germany joins 1926-pulls out in 1933
- Lack of enforcement (only economic)
- 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
- Japan owns South Manchurian railway
- Military operation in 1931 claiming Manchuria (renamed Manchuko)
- 1932- League's Lytton Commission decides Japan to leave
- Japan quits the league- invades northern China, 1933
- Two men in Europe take notice (Hitler & Mussolini)
italian occupation of abyssinia (ETHIOPIA) 1935
- Itlay had interest in colony since 1895
- Mussolini wanted to expand his empire (imperialism)
- 1934, and incidient is set up where
end of leaugue of nations
- League does not respond- Italy invades
- Economic sanctions threatened by league
- Hoare-Laval plan givs most of Ethipoia to Italy if fighting stopped
- Plan undermines the league
- People lose interst- Mussolini completes conquest
- Signials end of the league of Nations
Germany rearms - militarizes the rhineland
- 1935 Hitler introduces conscription in Germany
- France, Britain and Italy form the Stresa front to condemn Hitlers actions
- 1935 Mussolini sign naval agreement with Hitler
- March 1936 Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland (Breaking the Locarno Pact)