Today we watched Bruns' powerpoint on WWII.
Good Neighbor Policy
specifically an agreement with Latin America.
we treated them like a little brother, controlling different things, so they didn't really like us.
-agreement to treat them better. (we wanted to get along with them mostly for trading reasons)
Ethiopia was invaded by Mussolini in 1936. [sort of like revenge for the embarassment mentioned below]
italy lost their Ethiopia colony in 1896-- huge embarrassment for italians.
February 1935, Italy sends large forces into Ethiopia
October 1935 League of Nations declares italy the agressor.
the one thing the league of nations could do that actually hurt people was cut them off from trade.. they did this to italy with the exception of oil.
Spain was a very important place for Mussolini.. it served as training grounds for axis power soldiers.
Quarantine Speech was the first time we really told whose side we were on for the war (supported the peaceful nations, Great Britain and France)
Panay Incident- Japan attacked an American gunboat, killing 2 Americans, but Japan apologized, we accepted. and that was about it. first aggressive incident between us and japan
Anschluss with Austria-Hitler united Austria into Germany. (annexed Austria) Austrians view- some liked it, some didn't, some didn't care, and some fought back. anschluss means union.
Germans who lived in Czechoslovakia were called Sudetenland Germans. wanted to reunite German speaking Germans, so he took over the very western part of Czechoslovakia, which is where these people lived.
Sudentenland Munich Conference- Britain and France held conference to decide what was going to happen with the Sudentenland area of Czechoslovakia (neville chamberlain from great britain, hitler, mussolini and daladier from france)
hitler was given the sudetenland in exchange for a promise. they made hitler promise not to take over any more land, so hitler told them what they wanted to hear. (he didn't really mean it though)
also out of this conference came the policy of appeasement. states we cannot appease people anymore-dictators will lie and do things behind our backs, so we can't trust them.
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