Wednesday, March 6

Quiz tomorrow!!

How they lost power, what they did, and what country, alliance

Benito Mussolini- Italy, Axis, Killed, invaded ethiopia

Hitler-Germany, Axis, Suicide, Holocaust and invaded poland, invaded soviet union

Hideki Tojo- Japan, Axis, hanged, Ordered Pearl Harbor and let his soldiers be very mean with rape of nanking

Hirohito- Japan, Axis, Died natural,

Winston Churchill- Great Britain, Allies, lost election, Wonderful speeches/ We will never surrender speech

Franklin D. R- USA, Allies, stroke, Declared war on Japan and believer of Atomic bomb

Joesph Stalin- Soviet Union, Allies, stroke, Killed millions of people that he couldn't trust, Anti aggression pact with Germany, Germany invaded the soviet union and he pushed them back

1931- Invasion of Manchuria

  • Japan invades part of China(Manchuria)
    • Natural resources
    • Trade things to make more money for finished products
    • Use as base of operation to launch attack on rest of china
    • High terriffs Us put on them
  • Broke the league of nations
    • Broke kellogbrand act
    • Power pact 9
    • Everything else they attacked

1936 Italy Invades Ethiopia

  • Planned by Mussolini from Italy
  • Italy lost its Ethiopia colony in Africa at the 1896 Battle of Adua
  • One of the worst colonial disasters of modern history
  • Feb. 23, 1935, Italy sends large forces into Ethiopia
  • Oct. 7, 1935, League declared Italy the aggressor
  • Nov. 18, 1935, Leagues sanctions begin
    • arms embargo, financial embargo, non-importation of Italian goods
  • Feb. 1936, League could not agree on critical oil sanctions mainly because FDR refused- U.S. controlled 50% world oil trade
  • May 5- Italy occupied Addis Ababa- annexed all Ethiopia May 9

1936 Spanish Civil War

  • Generalissimo Francisco Franco stayed out of world War II
  • Aloud Hitler and Mussolini to test out their troops and weapons
    • Took tension off Hitler and Germany

1936 Rome-Berlin Axis

  • Hitler and Mussolini become allies
  • The world is going to rotate around Rome and Berlin

1937 Japan invades China

  • Start of WWII in Asia
  • Invade the rest of China
  • Strong Allie of the U.S
  • Japan was very rude and a lot of rapes went on

Soviet union was to Germany as China was to Japan. China was to big for Japan.

1938 Munich Conference/Sudetenland (Italy, Germany, France, Great Britain)

  • Sudetenland was Czechoslovakia
  • Neville Chamberlain- Great Britian
    • "Peace for our time"
  • Adolf Hitler-Germany
    • Promised he was done taking over land after he got this land
    • Appeasement- They gave into Hitler so war wouldn't break out
  • Benito Mussolini- Italy
  • Edouard Daladier- France
  • Winston Churchill said they shouldn't be giving into Hitler but nobody would listen because they wanted to stay out of war.
  • Next 6-8 months Hitler took rest of Czechoslovakia without conference

1938 Austrian Anschluss

  • Making Austria part of Germany
  • Hitler took Austria his home land
  • Hitlers first aggressive act
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