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Mussolini- was hanged Italy
Churchill- lost the next election
FDR- died in office near the end of the war
Tojo- was hanged after an attempted suicide and a war crimes trial
Hirohito-stayed in power until death by natural causes
Hitler- committed suicide
Stalin-died of natural causes
Japan invaded Manchuria 1931
- Manchuria had natural resources and it could also be used as a base to attack China
- This invasion broke almost all the power pacts
- The League of Nations could not do anything other than condemn what the Japanese was doing because they did not have a military system.
Ethiopia invaded by Mussolini 1936
- Italy lost its Ethiopia colony in Africa at the 1896 of Adua
- Feb 23, 1935, Italy sends large forces into Ethiopia
- October 7, 1935 League of nations declared Italy the aggressor
- The League of Nations put an embargo on Italy
- Oil was still traded with Italy because of the US
Generalissimo Francisco Franco and the Spanish Civil War
- It allowed German and Italian troops to gain valuable war experience
- allowed Germans and Italians to test their war machines/weapons
Rome- Berlin Axis
- 1936 Mussolini and Hitler become allies
- The term Axis comes from that Germany and Berlin would be the world’s new axis
1937 Japan invades China
- China was too large for Japan to invade, so it failed
- This is what is considered to be the start of the war for the Asians
- China was a very strong ally of the US
Austrian Anschluss
- Austrians speak German
- Austria wanted to become part of Germany
- Hitler was born in Austria
- He took over Austria and the United States let him get away with it
Sudetenland/ Munich Conference 1938
- Great Britain, Germany, Italy, and France attended
- This was held to determine the fate of the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia
- Neville Chamberlain- Great Britain
- Adolf Hitler- Germany
- Benito Mussolini- Italy
- Edouard Daladier- France
- League of Nations let Hitler take Sudetenland
- 6 months later Hitler took over the rest of the country
- Winston Churchill disagreed with Neville Chamberlain and thought they should go to war
Soviet- German Non- aggression Pact
- Russia gave raw materials to Germany in exchange for money and weapons
- Both agreed to stay neutral if the other entered the war
- Secretly agreed to invade and split Poland. Germany would get the western half and USSR the eastern half
- Russia would get Finland, Estonia and Latvia and Germany would get Lithuania
Germany invasion of Poland 1939
- Started the war
Blitz and Sitz 1939-40
- Blitzkrieg- Lighting War- fast attack( Hitler’s war strategy)
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