Munich Conference
- Between Germany, Britain, France, and Italy
- It was signed at 1 am on Sep. 30th, but was dated Sep. 29, 1938
- The Czechoslovakian prime minister was not invited
- The Western leaders agreed to divide Czechoslovakia with the promise that Hitler would take no more land
- The goal was Adolf Hitler would annex the Sudetenland
- It promised the Czech army would get away from the “German Areas” of Czechoslovakia
- France and England were in hopes to conserve the peace in Europe
- The Western leaders agreed to divide Czechoslovakia with the promise that Hitler would take no more land. He ended up with a lot more
- The agreement failed. A couple years later, WWII started
- They met for the meeting in Munich, Germany
Invasion of China
- The decisions that led to the Japanese invasion of China were made by the Japanese Army and politicians either friendly to the Army or intimidated by it
- Japanese launched a full scale invasion of China in 1937, called the Second Sino-Japanese War
- Japanese claimed the Chinese fired at them at Marco Polo Bridge, which began the war
- Within 5 months, 1 million Chinese were under control of the Japanese
- All major cities of China were captured by the end of 1937
- Chinese forces were unable to effectively resist the Japanese. Japan had a modern, well-equipped army. China did not.
- China had not industrialized like Japan
- US and Soviet Union put an end to the war
- They attacked the Japanese by dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima
- After the allied victory in the pacific, General Douglas MacArthur ordered all Japanese forces in China to surrender
- Chinese casualties were around 20 million
- Around 15 million were wounded
- The conflict lasted from 1937 to 1945, 8 years, 1 month, and 3 days
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