Tuesday 3-13-12

[4Catie]

Bruns goes over the powerpoint again....

Yesterday::

Rape of Naking  - (1937)
 - Japan burned down the city and hundreds of thousands civilians killed.
 - Infants, children, women raped and killed.
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Quarantine Speech - (1937)

Appeasement Policy
 - policy to avoid war to give someone something to keep them happy.
 - 1930s
 - huge mistake

Panay Incident ( 1937
 -  attacked and sunk by Japan but said sorry right away.


Today ::
 
 - Sudetenland/Munich Conference - 1938
   *Munich :
                   - Chamberlain (Great Britain)
                   - Hitler (Germany)
                   - Mussolini (Italy)
                   - Daladier (France)
Munich Appeasement::
 - Germany was given the Sudentenland of Czechoslovakia
 - Czechslovokia had option to accept Pact or deal with Germany itself
 - Czech lost its defendable borders
 - Czechs lost 
                       *70% of iron/steel
                       *70% of its electrical power
                       *3.5 million citizens to Germany as result of settlement