The Leagues of Nations
The principle that if one member state is threatened, all others would come to their aid.
Collective Security
What resource did the league of nations propose to sanction on Italy? Mussolini claimed this action would mean war.
Oil Embargo
The failed 1923 coup in Munich that resulted in Hitler’s imprisonment.
Beer Hall Putsch
The ten-year non-aggression agreement signed between Germany and the USSR in 1939.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
The demilitarized zone that German troops re-occupied in March 1936, directly breaking the Treaty of Versailles.
The Rhineland
The League successfully solved a minor border dispute between these two Nordic nations in the 1920s.
Sweden and Finland
The foreign policy of staying out of world problems, which was popular in Canada during the 1930s.
Isolationism
The book Hitler wrote while in prison detailing his radical ideas and plans for Germany.
Mein Kampf
The "lightning war" tactic Hitler used to conquer Poland in just a few weeks.
Blitzkrieg
The term used for the "reunion" of Germany and Austria in March 1938.
Anschluss
The specific agreement (article) in the League of nations agreement that created a security obligation for all members.
Article X
The African nation invaded by Mussolini’s tanks and aircraft in 1935.
Abyssinia/Ethiopia
The aging German leader who reluctantly appointed Hitler as Chancellor in 1933.
President Hindenburg
The 1938 agreement where Britain and France gave Hitler Czech territory to avoid war.
Munich Pact
Hitler’s foreign policy goal of acquiring "living space" for the Aryan race.
Lebensraum
The Emperor of Ethiopia who pleaded with the League for help against Italian aggression.
Haile Selassie
The 1932 League of Nations document that condemned Japan as the aggressor in Manchuria.
Lytton report
The 1933 law that gave Hitler the power to bypass Parliament and make his own laws.
The Enabling Act
The date Canada issued its own INDEPENDENT declaration of war against Germany.
September 10th, 1939
The industrial heartland of Germany occupied by France in 1923 to collect unpaid reparations.
The Ruhr
The city in Switzerland that served as the headquarters for the League of Nations
Geneva
The term Japan used to describe Manchuria (Manchukuo), believing it was essential for their resources and space.
Lifeline
The democratic government that collapsed due to debt and the Great Depression, allowing Hitler to seize power.
Weimar Republic
The region of Czechoslovakia that Hitler demanded and received at the Munich Conference.
Sudetenland
Hitler’s radical ideas were based on a "survival of the fittest" hierarchy of races.
Social Darwinism