- Lebensraum- The expansion of the Aryan race through "breeding farms" left Hitler with the challenge of coming up with a place for the new Aryans would live. Lebensraum was the "living space" for the Aryan race.
- German Invasion of USSR- Known as operation Barbarossa. Stalingrad, Leningrad and Moscow. They Surrounded and bombed the city of Leningrad in an attempt to get them to surrender because they could not afford to invade them due to lack of food and resources. Many German soldiers fell victim to deadly starvation and freezing temperatures. The Germans were unsuccessful in taking the Soviet Union.
- After Japan had invaded French Indochina, the United states stopped all trade with Japan. The war with Japan and the attack on pearl harbor were direct results of the US ceasing trade with Japan. Because Japan needed oil, they attacked us in order to force us to begin trading with them again.
- 1936 Neutrality act- Passed in February of 1936 and was designed to renew the Act passed in 1935. The act did not place any stipulations on civil wars, or materials such as oil and trucks. Oil companies used this loophole in order to send oil to Franco on credit. By the year 1939, Franco was indebted to Texaco, Standard Oil Comapany, General Motors, and Studebaker by over 100,000,000.
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