Blog Discussion-
France-
- treaty of versailles- helped france, germany had to pay, DMZ
- constitutional monarchy
- Vichy govt- led by marshal petain, obeyed germany
- free french underground- our ally, led by charles de gaulle, based in london, vichy took over france (under german control)
- goals- wanted their country back, defeat hitler, try to hold on to their empire
- miliary strategy- de gaulle liked tanks, maginot line- designed to stop german advance ( supposedly impenitrable- didn't work tho- new technology made this pretty much useless).. very defensive strategy
- impact- high casualties, no longer a world power, didn't want to lose their power, went to war with vietnamese and we get involved
China-
- chiang kai shek- official leader of china (nationalist party)
- china was about to be taken over by a bunch of world powers
- open door policy- everyone had equal trade in china
- US wanted china to remain independent
- Shek wanted to get rid of other countries influence in china
- chiang kai shek and mao zedong (communist)- had a civil war
- we support shek- not communist
- 1931- japan invades china- take mancuria for resources
- 1937- japan invades rest of china
- Chiang and mao decided to work together against japan
- japanese were terrible to the chinese
- china was the same to japan and soviet union was to germany
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