Invasion of China-The decisions that led to the Japanese invasion of china was made by the Japanese army and politicians. They launched a full scale invasion of china in 1937. The Japanese claimed china started the war by firing the first shot. All the major cities we captured by 1937 and 1million Chinese were captured. Chinese forces were unable to resist the Japanese since the Japanese had much better technology and weapons in which their army was equipped. China was not a industrialized as china. The US put an end to the war by dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. After the allied victory in the pacific, General Douglas Macarthur ordered all Japanese forces to surrender. Chinese casualties were around 20 million and 15 million wounded. Japanese only suffered 1,055,000 deaths and 1,172,000 wounded.
The German soviet Non-Aggression Pact-It was a pact between Germany and the soviet union and agreed to not take military for the next ten years In order to build up Stalin’s army and agreed that the would divide Europe once concurred. Hitler dint want to make the same mistakes as the one that happened in ww1 by fighting a war on 2 fronts. Russia didn’t want them against Germany. This agreement greatly affected Eastern Europe. In exchange for the soviets not to join the future war, Germany gave them Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. When World War 2 started the soviets didn’t want to attack Germany But the fought back when Germany invaded them on June 22, 1941. Hitler used the pact to make sure that Germany could invade Poland without being challenged.
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