Blog discussion today. We had to watch another ww2 movie.
China Incident
-in 1937 Japan invades China.
-In 1938 Japan was to China as Germany was Russia, they both did well in the country they were invading.
-China is still really upset with how the Japanese treated the Chinese.
Rape of Nanking- Japanese raped everyone women, and women, killed 100s of 1000s of civilians. Destoyed the whole town. They raped then killed.
Quarantine Speech- FDR gives his first speech- he said we needed to quarantine the dangerous countries. Germany, Italy, and Japan.
Appeasement Policy -a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to an aggressor.
- helped give Japan Italy and German confidence that they would face very few consequences for their actions.
-Considered to be one of the biggest mistakes of the 20th century
Panay Incident
-In China
-Panay is an American gun boat
- we were trying to get americans out of china
-the Japanese attacked the ship and killed a few Americans.
- They later apologized saying they didn't know it was an American ship-even though it had american flags on it.
Ahschluss with Austria 1938
-1st aggressive act
- Austria was forced to be part of Germany
-Germany annexed Austria
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