ITALIAN EXPANSION: Abyssinia Crisis (1935, October), why did Mussolini invade? 1) REVENGE because they invaded in 1896. 2) Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) was well-positioned for Italy to add her lands to Africa.
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FAILURE OF LoN: FAILED TO ACHIEVE ITS ORIGINAL AIMS (disarmament, etc) AND DEMOCRACY HAD COLLAPSED IN MOST OF EUROPE.
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CAUSES OF WW2: APPEASEMENT - Chamberlain didn't want another major war, better to let Hitler have the Sudetenland, people believed Hitler had a right to protect Germans who lived there. BRITAIN WAS MORE WORRIED ABOUT COMMUNISM and USSR than Hitler
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9 STEPS TO WAR: 1) Rearmament, 2) Rhineland remilitarised, 3) Rome-Berlin Axis, 4) British appeasement, 5) Union with Austria, 6) Sudetenland, 7) Czech., 8) Nazi-Soviet Pact, 9) Poland
