Took the Asset test today. I was kinda hoping it would last longer than it did, but it actually let out in 3rd hour.
Bruns big powerpoint continued.
Africa was full of European colonies.
Italian Invasion---
Italy took over places like ethiopia, somalia, etc.
Nov. 18, 1935, league sanctions begin. (neutrality acts) arms embargo, financial embargo, non-importation of Italian goods.
1936- league could not agree on critical stuff...yada yada yada. missed it.
Generalisimo Francisco Franco and the Spanish Civil War. Franco was supported by Hitler and Moussolini- he was fighting the Communists. Spain never participated in WW2, but they did have a civil war, what with this and that. He won, was a nice guy, a "good" dictator after he won the civil war. and he never helped out hitler with military in WW2.
FDR vs. Alf Landon (republican)---massive blowout. landon only got 2 states. this was roosevelts 2nd election.
Rome-Berlin Axis.
Moussilini came up with "Axis"- meaning that it was supposed to be that the world would look to rome and berlin for inrtuctions and all that.
Japan, because they couldnt trade with us (cuz we put high tarriffs on everything during the great depression). So they invaded china for the resources and stuff. they wreaked havoc on china....but i doesnt get a lot of press for some reason.
Quarantine Speech. isolation. although we declared nuetrality, we obviously picked sides. wanted to quarentine the aggressive countries.
Panay incedent- Panay was a ship, a gunboat. Japan attacked it while it was in China, killed two americans. japan apologized, we accepted, and that was that. first incedent in which japan attacked us.
back to hitler. nazi party was rising to power- people were kinda scared of them. germany took austria (ANSCHLUSS) and with the new map, it looks like its gonna eat czechloslovakia next. Sudeten Germans live in Sudetenland, an area pretty much on the border of czechloslovakia.
Munich conference. to decide what was going to be done with Sudetenland and Czechloslovakia. A meeting between france(eduard daladier), britain(neville chamberlain), italy(benito mussolini), and germany(adolf hitler). hitler was given sudetenland under the condition that he promise GB and france that he wouldnt take over any more land. wow. so now hitler knows that gb and france want to avoid war at all costs and they wont do anything about his taking other countries over. "Peace for our Time".-chamberlain.
dictators cannot be appeased or trusted. not really. they tell you what you want to hear, but their words do not match their actions.
sometimes you have to go to war to avoid a war. so if gb and france had gone to war with hitler in the 30s, WW2 might have been avoided or delayed.
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