Quarantine Speech-1937
-Realtes to war.
-quarantine: Not good
-He was meaning Germany, Japan, Italy
Appeasement Policy
- "a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding was by making concessions to an aggressor"
- Great Britain and France usewd this policy througthout the 1930s
- Helped give Japan, Ital and Germany confidence that they would face no consequences for thier actions
- Considered to be a huge mistake by historians.
Panay Incident- 1937
-Japan attacks a ship and kills people. Japanese people said they thought it was China's ship, but it was the United States ship.
Anschluss With Austria-1938
Munish Conference
Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact 1939
- German ambassador von Ribbenstrop and Soviet dictator Stalin laugh as Molotov signs the Nazi-Soviet Non-addression Pact August 23, 1939.
- 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 and USSR the eastern half.
- Russia would get Finland, Estonia and Latvia and Germany would get Lithuania.
How did the world react to this pact?
- Shock
- Poland was in a very tough spot
- Hilter thought it would force Great Britain and France to back out of their promise to help Polnad if attacked.
Blitzkrieg-Lightening War
- Airforce attacks enemy front-line and rear positions, main roads, airfelds and communication centers. At the same time, infantry attacks on the entire frontline and engages enemy.
- Infantry attacks enemy flanks in order to link up with other groups to complete the attack.
- Main force link up with other units encitcling and cutting off the enemy.
- Goal was to achieve as quickly as possible.
Axis Powers
Main-Germany, Italy, Japan
Allied Powers- Great Britain, Soviet Union, USm China, France
- Europe- Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Greese, Norway. Africa- Egpyt. Austrilla, Canada.
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