Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these acts of aggression and diplomacy in order.
- Germany annexes Austria
- The Munich agreement transfers the Sudetenland
- Germany remilitarises the Rhineland
- Japan seizes Manchuria
- Italy invades Ethiopia
- The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact is signed
- Germany occupies Bohemia and Moravia
Hints
- The sequence begins in east Asia and ends in Moscow.
- Manchuria 1931, Ethiopia 1935, the Rhineland 1936, Austria March 1938, Munich September 1938, Prague March 1939, the pact August 1939.
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- Japan seizes Manchuria
- Italy invades Ethiopia
- Germany remilitarises the Rhineland
- Germany annexes Austria
- The Munich agreement transfers the Sudetenland
- Germany occupies Bohemia and Moravia
- The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact is signed
Why
The acceleration is the striking feature: four years between the first two, then five major steps in three and a half years. Each unpunished action lowered the expected cost of the next, which is the mechanism critics of appeasement point at and the one its defenders have to answer.
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