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Topics of the 1930's:
*1931- invasion of Manchuria:
- Depression is setting in around the world
- Japan decides to invade Manchuria
- Manchuria had a lot of Natural resources
- Trade and use as a launch of attack
- Japan needed to find a way to find raw materials
- decided to invade Manchuria
- broke all the things that they signed in the 1920's
- Led up to WW2
- offered new markets
- Manchuria was a good base for attack on China
*1936- Italy invades Ethiopia:
- Italy lost its Ethiopia colony in Africa at the 1896 Battle of Adua
- One of the worst colonial disasters of modern history
- Feb. 23, 1935, Italy sends large forces into Ethiopia
- Oct. 7, 1935, League declared Italy the aggressor
- League of Nations condemned the action
- put economic sanctions on Italy
- Means that they couldn't trade goods, or do anything with Italy
- US world export of oil (50%)
- May 5, 1936, Italy occupied Addis Ababa- annexed all Ethiopia May 9
*1936- Spanish Civil War:
- between communist and Generalisimo Francisco Granco
- He defeated the communist
- He stayed out of WW2
- it allowed Hitler and Mussolini to try out their troops, and build up their military
*1936- Rome- Berlin Axis-
- Germany and Italy become allies
- Hitler and Mussolini become allies
*1937- Japan invades China:
- start of WW2 in Asia
- China has a lot of land, resources, etc.
- Both countries invaded countries with more people
- Japan was hated by US forces
*1938- Munich Conference:
- GB, France, Germany, Italy
- Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain
- Held to determine the fate of Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia
- Chamberlain "Peace for our time"
- Chamberlain prevented a huge war to happen
- Policy of Appeasement- please people
- GB and France didn't go to war
- Hitler knew that GB, France, and Italy would follow him and believe him
- appease Hitler you gave him more power
- Churchill said that we need to fight
- Hitler took over the rest of Czechoslovakia
- push GB and France to the point that they needed to start fighting
*1938- Austrian Anchluss:
- German for Union
- Make Austria part of Germany
- not worth going to war with Austria
- Hitler took Austria
- Aggressive act that Hitler did
*1939- Soviet- German Non- Aggression pact:
- Paved the war for the invasion of Polan
- Signed August 1939
- a week before the invasion of Polan
- Soviet Union and Germany signed this pact to not go to war against each other
- Russia gave raw materials to Germany in exchange for money and weapons
- Both agreed to stay neutral if the other entered the war
- Secretly agreed to invade and split Poland. Germany would get the western half of USSR the eastern half
- Russia would get Finland, Estonia, and Latvia and Germany would get Lithuania
- Poland was stuck in a hard place
*1939- German invasion of Poland:
- Poland lasted about a month
- Poland was done
*1939-40- Blitz and Sitz:
- Blitzkrieg- Lightning war
- fast warfare
- overwhelm the enemy
- make people surrender
- Make people think that people couldn't beat Germany
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