China was to Japan as Russia was to Germany-both(Germany & Japan) bit off more than they could chew...small countries tried to invade bigger country and failed.
Rape of Nanking-1937
-major city in China, what Japan did to the city was nightmarish, city was burned down, at least 20,000 women and children were raped, gang raped, killed & stabbed. Killed hundreds of civilians. Japan has never really appologized for this...there is a lot of bad blood over WW2
Quarantine Speech-1937
-Roosevelt turns his attention from domestic violence, to outside, says Germany, Japan, & Italy needed to be quarantined, the peaceful countries have to quarantine this countries.
-Roosevelt didn't act like a neutral president
Appeasement Policy
-" a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to an aggressor"
-gave countries more confidence and time to build up their military
-Great Britain and France used this policy throughout the 1930's
-Helped give Japan, Italy, & German confidence that they would face no consequences for their actions
-Considered to be a huge mistake by historians
Panay Incident-1937
-American gun boat(Panay) was attacked and sunk by Japan, Japan appologized because they thought it was Chinese...started a bad relationship between these to countries
Anschluss with Austria-1937
-Anschluss is german for union.
-Austria had no problem with this
-The leader of Austria had the people vote if they wanted to do this, the people voted not to but it was too late.
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