Fill in the Blanks Road to WW2Online version Fill in gap activity. by Maite Fresnillo Beneitez 1 Street depression Sudetenland Japan League Versailles Italy Manchuria Rhineland Wall Agreement Abyssinia treaties appeasement Munich Defeated Nations As the Great War ended everyone was agreed on one thing : that there must never be a Second World War . countries , judged to have been responsible for starting World War One were punished harshly in a series of . The most important of these was the Treaty of between Germany and the Allies . A different approach to keeping world peace was adopted through the of , an international organisation where member nations worked together to solve disputes . Through the 1920s it had a number of successes . Then in October 1929 the American stock market on crashed . Its impact was devastating . The world was plunged into . In these circumstances each country had to look after itself . Gone was the co - operation of the 1920s . , in depression , could not feed its people . The military , frustrated by the democratic government's inaction , took the initiative and in 1931 invaded , a province of China and a source of food . suffered badly too and the people began to blame the leader , Mussolini . As a distraction he ordered the invasion of in 1935 to unite the people behind him again . In Germany the people turned to Hitler . He was determined to smash what remained of the Treaty of Versailles . After regaining the Saar in 1935 and reoccupying the in 1936 , he used a combination of force and persuasion to take Austria , the , the rest of Czechoslovakia and finally Poland between 1938 and 1939 . Faced with this aggressive nationalism from Japan , Italy and Germany the League of Nations was powerless to act . America had never joined , so Britain and France were the most important members . They also were badly affected by the depression , and they had large Empires to protect . They therefore followed a policy of . It was only when Hitler broke the that they realised they would have to stand up to him . When he invaded Poland in 1939 , Britain and France declared war on Germany . World War Two had started .
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