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Japanese Invasion of Manchuria.
- What did this situation prove?-
- The league of nations could not enforce it's authority.
- A major power could get away with using force.
- Great Britain and France wanted to avoid war at all cost.
- The league loses it's most powerful member in the Far- East- Japan
Roosevelt was a better president then Hoover
Good Neighbor Policy.
- FDR realized we had to become better neighbors for two reasons
- Trade- good because of the great Depression
- making sure that our neighbors did not have allies with our neighboring policies. To keep Mussolini and Hitler out of there
Ethiopia invaded by Mussolini 1936
- Italy lost it's Ethiopia colon in Africa at the 1896 battle of Adua
- One of the worst colonial disasters of modern history
- Feb 23, 1935, Italy sends large forces into Ethiopia
- Oct 7, 1935, league of nations declared Italy the aggressor.
- They wanted to control the Mediterranean Sea and Africa
- Italy got it's revenge and won
-Nov 1935 leagues sanctions beign
- arms embargo, financial embargo, no importation of Italian goods
Feb 1936-League could not agrre on critical oil sanction mainly because FDR refused - US controlled 50% of trade
Feb 29, 1936-FDR0 singed the 1936 nuetratlity act
- Mandatory arms embargo with warring nations
- Mandatory ban of laons to warring Nations
May 5- Italy occupied Addis Acaba- Annexed Ethiopia
The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 Generalissimo Francisco Franco
- Hitler helped him come to power, but they were not really allies
Rome- Berlin Axis 1936
Was the official Alliance between of Germany and Italy that the world would run through Rome and Berlin their two major cities
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