France
gave them some land from germany-treaty of versailles
on the border and german colonies in africa
they didnt think the restrictions on germany were tough enough
they got money from germany to pay all the war reperations
pleased the german military was dismantled
allied powers- US, great britain, poland, UK, soviet union, china
constitutional monarchy- had king queen and people had a say
king and queen have very little power
it's somewhat democratic because people could vote for the president
leader during the war was charles de gaulle
got attacked and taken over by germany during the war
taken over by the nazis
free french underground led by charles in WWII. He evetually became president. They werent based in France they were based in the UK.
Vichy Government led by marshal henri petain- he did whatever hitler told him to do.
hitler allowed french to maintan control over the southern part of france
it was allied with the nazis
they helped round up french jews
not a part of french history to be proud of
throughout the 20's and 30's they built the maginot line- built a concrete boarder
he wanted to use lots of tanks and took a defensive line
the french called it the inpenitrable line
it was a concrete boarder along the boarder of germany
had hosptials under the ground and places to sleep
germany attacked france through belgium in both WWI and WWII
it was a good defensive system and they can only go so far
put things up to prevent tanks from coming through
airplanes could bombard it
the french decided to focus on defensive tactics
eventually you do have to have some offensive tactics
their goal was to keep germany out of their country
and they failed at that
trying to outlaw the communist party
communist was making a head way in almost every country
they weren't mentally prepared to go into the war
attitude towards hitler was lets put our heads in the sands and forget about it
eventually hitler will be happy and quit but this just gave him more power to keep going on
the phony war- after germany invaded poland. the winter set in and it was cold and snowy so they wanted to wait for the war to end. april of 1940 is when they got back into the war
also known as the sitting war
WWII impact- lost a lot of power
they had a lot of deaths
500000 civilians died
D day we invaded and then you will see a lot more damage
high costs
they lost their status as world power
leads into vietnam war
vietnam assumed they would be given independence
we take over for them so it wont fall to communism
China
treaty of versailles- didnt impact them but they didnt want to stop fighting- they didnt approve of the treaty- didnt want to change the boundrys of the country
lost a little bit of land to japan
had a communist government eventually
in 1930's they had a war between each otehr because there was an island that china had and they had a war between the nationalist and communists
Chiang Kai Shek- nationalist and Mao Zedong (Tse-Tung) -communist
1931 japan invaded china to get resources
there was a war between the two leaders- Shek wanted to get rid of communism. continued to fight after the war too. during the war they came together however to get rid of the japanese and then went back to their own
in the end Mao won with the communist system
Mao told the people about communism and gave speaches to try and persuade them
they were allied powers- US, great britain, canada, and australlia
WWII impacted china- changed the government, lost a lot of resources, favored communist, economy suffered and became really poor. population went down cities destroyed
Nan king- rape of nan king- 200000 people killed by the japanese soliders- 60-80 thousand women were raped.
even today janpan and china dont really get along.
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