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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 Battle of Britain Main fighter planes; hurricane and spitfire Reason why German was defeated fought to far away, couldn’t get fuel and ammo One of the most famous battles of WWII Bad weather stopped the Luftwaffe from their planned daily raids in august Sep. 15 the German air force lost 60 planes Hitler’s plans to invade Britain on June 18 1940 Nanking China massacre On December 1937 the Japanese imperial army marched into china capital city nanking which had a population of 600,000 at the time The Japanese records of the death toll was kept secret and most likely destroyed in 1945 after the Japanese surrended Chinese death estimate was around 300,000 Blitzrieg Military strategy used by the Germans Military Pamphlet called actung panzer Hitler read and used this pamphlet against Britain, France, and Russia Germans continued to poor into Poland No activity on the western front between Sep 1939 and May 1940 Invasion on Ethiopia Oct. 1935 It was the first time that mustard gas and phosgene was used as illegal The ambassador reported that factories for the manufacture of trucks tanks and artillery at and around Milan were working day and night The UN was trying to stop the outbreak of war but Italy refused to carry out their plan. The league suggested a plan to give part of Abyssinia to Italy Italy Invaded for revenge for an earlier defeat in 1896 and for access to the red sea, aswel as for national honor