blog dicussion:
france:
france split into 2 gov'ts:
free french gov't
vichy gov't:
lead by marshal henri petain
french are not proud of this part of their history
maginot line- used deffensive war tactics
maginot line was a concrete wall that they thought that no one would be able to break through
china:
the treaty didn't really impact them
they didn't really approve the treaty
they did not want to stop fighting and they wanted to keep the territories the same
they eventually went into communism
chiang kai shek and mao zedong
mao zedong was communist
chiang kai shek was a nationalist
there was a war between the 2 leaders because shek wanted the country to be nationalist
they eventually teamed up to fight in the war against japan
japan invades china in 1937
the leaders then started fighting again after the war
china was an allied alliance
ww2 changed the gov't- became communist
their economy suffered
huge loss of population
lost a lot of natural resources
the rape of nanking
60-80,000 women were raped
still today chinese and japanese are on bad terms
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