1. Paths to War
CH. 11 SECTION 1

2. Review…
 Hitler came to power in Germany
 He was voted for!
 Party was called the Nazi party (National Socialist German
Workers Party)
 Wanted an “Aryan” nation
 Treaty of Versailles left Germany in bad shape
 Forced Germany to take full responsibility for WWI
 Germany had to pay reparations
 Demilitarized Rhineland

3. Appeasement
 Policy based on the belief that if European states
satisfied reasonable demands of unsatisfied powers,
the unsatisfied powers would be content, and
stability and peace would be achieved in Europe.
 Hitler sent troops into the Rhineland, but Britain did
NOTHING
 Hitler demanded to be given part of Czechoslovakia, so Britain,
France and Italy GAVE IT TO HIM

4. New Alliances
 Hitler formed an alliance with Italy by helping
Mussolini invade Ethiopia and aid the Spanish civil
war
 Signed the Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan
promising a common front against communism
 Hitler forced Austria to become a part of Germany by
threatening war.

5. Hitler Pushes Forward
 Hitler invades the rest of Czechoslovakia and
demands the Polish port of Danzig
 Britain and France finally realize Hitler will not stop and
offer to aid Poland in the event of war
 They seek an alliance with Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin
 Hitler did not want a 2 front war, so he signed the
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact which promised
Germany and the Soviet Union would not fight
 In return Hitler promised the Soviet Union control of
eastern Poland
 Hitler expected to fight the Soviet Union anyways later
 Hitler invaded Poland and Germany and France
declared war on Germany

6. The Japanese Path to War
 1931 the Japanese seized Manchuria for its natural
resources
 Justified this by claiming Chinese had attacked a Japanese
railway in Mukden
 Japanese had actually done this themselves
 Japanese forced to withdraw from the League of Nations
 Chiang Kai-shek wanted to avoid conflict with Japan
to focus on fighting Communism
 Japanese kept advancing through China forcing him to go to
war

7. The New Asian Order
 Japan wanted to create a New Order in East Asia
 Wanted to help modernize Asia
 Japan originally wanted to join with Hitler and
attack the Soviet Union for resources
 After non-aggression pact they began looking at
French Indochina instead
 The US threated to cut off Japan from trade if they
attacked
 Japan chose to do a surprise attack on U.S. and European
colonies in Southeast Asia