History notes for Thursday test
Invasion of China
- Chinese forces could not resist the Japanese. Japan had a modern, well equipped army.
- China had not industrialized like Japan
- Us and soviet union ended the war they attacked with a bomb (Hiroshima)
- Douglas MacArthur ordered all Japanese forces to surrender
- Everybody suffered from millions of causalities
The German soviet non-aggression pact
- Pact between Germany and soviet union
- This was done to keep the soviet union at peace with Germany as they built a military
- Both agreed not to take military action for the next 10 years
- It was a secret agreement until they decided they would divide up eastern Europe
- Soviet and Germany fought a two front war in world war 2 and it later split
- The secret protocol greatly effected Eastern Europe
- In exchange for the soviets not to enter the future war, Germany gave them Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (the Baltic states)
- When WW2 started the soviets didn’t join the fight against Germany
- Nazis and soviets kept the terms of the pact and protocol until Germanys surprise attack on the soviet union in 1941
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