- Invasion of Manchuria (1931)-
- US' put high tariffs on goods
- Japan invaded china
- Raw materials
- Japan had 97 million people to feed
- Japan had great industry
- New markets
- Base of operations to invade the rest of China
- League of Nations condemned Japan
- Italy Invades Ethiopia (1936)-
- Italy lost Ethiopia in 1896 battle of Adua
- On of the worst colonial disasters of modern history
- Feb. 23, 1936 Italy sends large forces to Ethiopia
- league of nations stepped in
- Decided Italy was aggressor
- Italy took over Ethiopia after 6 months
- Spanish civil war (1936)-
- Generalissimo Francisco Franco the fasish leader
- Hitler sent forces to help Franco
- Spain was Neutral in WW2
- Rome-Berlin axis (1936)-
- official alliance between Germany and Italy
- Japan invades china (1937)-
- Tries to take over China
- Soviet Union was to Germany as China was to Japan
- Germany and Japan didn't have a lot of raw goods and not many people
- Soviet Union and China has a lot of people and raw goods
- Munich conference (1938)-
- Hitler demanded he have Sudetenland
- Italy- Mussolini, Germany- Hitler, Britain- Chamberland, France- Daladier
- They gave it to him as long as he didn't take over any more land
- Policy of Appeasement
- Chamberland went back to Britain saying "Peace for our time"
- Gave into Hitler to appease him
- Can't appease dictators
- Winston Churchill thought it was dumb
- Austrian Anchluss (1938)-
- after WW2 Austria wanted to become part of Germany
- Not worth going to war
- no repercussions
- soviet German non aggression pact (1939)-
- 6 months after Munich Conference he took over the rest of Czechoslovakia
- signed between Germany and Soviet Union
- agreed to:
- Give Russia manufactured goods for raw goods
- wouldn't attack each other
- Secretly agreed:
- Invade poland
- Finland
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Germany got Lithuania
- Germany invades Poland (1939)-
- Invaded in Sept. 1st
- Blitz and Sitz (1939-40)-
- fast fighting
- so fast it got to people mentally
- people gave up
- airplanes dive bombing taking out the major things: Transportation, Communication
- tanks
- Soldiers
- Troops in trucks to go inland as fast as possible
- trap enemy on both sides
- VERY successful
- Germany Invades (1940)
- Denmark, Norway
- Belgium, Netherlands
- Luxemburg
- Maginot Line (1930-40)-
- Germany invades France (1940)-
- Battle of Britain (1940)-
- German invasion of USSR (1941)-
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