The Battle of Britain
- Germans fought too far away from their bases so they couldn’t rearm or get fuel
- Bad weather stopped the Luftwaffe from their planned daily raids
Nanking China massacre
- The Japanese imperial army marched into China’s capital city, Nanking, and killed about half of the population there.
- Destruction lasted about 6 weeks. There was a lot of blood
- Chinas death estimate was around 300,000. Most deaths were “justified” by military reason
Anschluss
- Invasion and annexation of Austria in march of 1938 is what it was
- It was between Austria and Germany
- It was unsuccessful
- Austrian Gov. Changed to authoritarian right-wing Gov. this worried Germany
- Hitler forced the Austrian chancellor to let him take control
- It failed because the Austrian military intervened to back up the Gov.
Invasion of Manchuria
- The Kwangtung army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria
- It was an attempt to gain control over the whole province led by the Japanese empire
- 1945 the soviets invaded Manchuria. The Japanese weren’t expecting war until a year later
- The invasion made a significant change in the japan foreign policy
Policy of Appeasement
- Appeasement means state of peace or calmness
- Efforts by France and Britain to allow Nazis to have almost anything they wanted, in hope that Hitler would stop his aggressive ways
- They allowed Germany to build up their army (going against the treaty of Versailles)
- They allowed Hitler to annex Austria (also against treaty of Versailles)
- Hitler continued to get more aggressive
- It took the people to long to figure out that giving Hitler wanted he wanted made him worse so the only choice they had was to fight against him
- Britain and France couldn’t decide if Hitler or Stalin was a nigger threat
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