Today we started back with the powerpoint. The first thing we talked about is the Good Neighbor Policy, which I do remember talking about on Thursday. It started the process of trying to make Latin America and the US get along.
Ethiopia was invaded by Mussolini (Italy leader) in 1936. Italy lost it's Ethiopia colony in Afri a 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, 1935League declared Italy the aggressor. They wanted to attak Ethiopia because they wanted the resources. In responce to this situation the League of Nations stopped trading with Italy besides Oil.
Spain was neutral in WW2. In 1935&1936 there was a civil war in spain. the nationalists fought the communists. Generalisimo Francisco Franco came to power, he was helped by Hitler to become the dictator.
1936 Election. Roosevelt vs. Alf Landon. This was one of the biggest blowouts in US history.
Rome-Berlin Axis.
Quarantine Speech. Given by Roosevelt. Basically what was said that the peaceful nations need to quarantine the other nations that aren't very peaceful.
Panay Incident. One of the first incidents between the US and Japan. A couple of Japanese airplanes attaked it, killing two Americans. It started our relations to be not so good with Japan.
Anschluss with Austria. Hitler made Austria a part of Germany. Austria asked to become part of Germany after WW1. The League of Nations didn't think it was that big of a deal.
Hitler wanted to get the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia. They held a conference in Munich. Czechoslovakia didn't have any say in it. The people that made the decisions were Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain, Hitler, Mussolini from Italy, and Edouard Daladier from France. What came out of the Munich Conference was the Policy of Appeasement, "Peace for our time." They basically appeased hitler. Chanberlain believed that he had kept a big war from breaking out. Winston Churchill wanted to stop Hitler then and there, but nobody would listen to him.
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