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-FDR 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
China was With Japan, and Soviet Was with Japan- They bit of more than they could chew China was just way to huge. China proved too much for Japan. They Japanese and the Chinese do not get along. They would trade them really bad. Civilians were killed. Infants and children were raped, and they were stabbed in different parts of their body. This is were the Japanese were painted as terrible people. Rape of Nanking 1937
Quarantine Speech 1937
- He said that the all the countries of the world need to come together, and take over all the bad countries from expanding. This is were Roosevelt started to takes sides. The bad countries need to be Quarantined
Appeasement Policy
- A diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by makng concession to an aggressor.
-Helped give Japan, And Italy, and Germany confidence thatthey would face no consequences for their action.
- Considered to be a huge mistake by historians.
- It was a huge mistake by avoiding all the things that those countries were doing.
- sometimes you have to use force to get them to back down.
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