Munich Conference
Between Germany, Britain, France, and Italy
The czech prime minister was not involved
Sep. 29th/30th 1938
Promised to divide the Czech with the promise that they wouldn’t take anymore land
The agreement failed a couple years later WWII started
They met for the meeting in munich Germany
Invasion of china
Japan launched an invasion of china in 1997 called the seconds Sino- Japanese war
Japan claimed to have been attacked at the Marco Polo bridge, which began the war
Within 5 months 1,000,000 Chinese were under Japanese control
All major cities in china were captured by the end of 1937
Chinese forces were unable to effectively resist the laps
Japan had a modern army, Unlike china
China had not industrialized like japan had
Us and the solviet union put an end to the war
They dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima
After the victory in the pacific general Douglas ordered all Japanese forces in china to surrender
China had 20 million casualties with about 15 million wounded
Japan had a little over 1 million deaths and around the same amount of wounded
The conflict lasted 8 years
German soviet non- aggression pact
The pact was between Germany and the Soviet Union
Joseph stalin did this to keep his country at peace with Germany while they built up a military
Agreed not to take any military action for the next 10 years
Contained the secret agreement which stated that the would dived up eastern Europe
Hitler agreed to the pack so he didn’t make the same mistake that happened in WWI
In exchange for the soviets not to join the future war Germany gave them Estonia Latvia and Lithuania
Germany used the pact to make sure they could invade Poland unopposed
Terms of the pact were kept until Germanys surprise attack on June 22nd 1941
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