Monday: Started presentation.
5 power pact
- Signed by Great Britain, the United States, Japan, France, and Italy
- Designed to prevent an arm's race
- It limited the construction of battleships, battle cruisers. and air craft carriers.
9 power acted
- signed to give china independence.
Kellogg - Briand Pact
- countries pledged not to use war as a way to settle disputes
Italy invades Ethiopia by Mussolini 1936
Italy lost its Ethiopia colony in Africa at the 1896 battle of Adua
Tuesday:
King Victor Emmanuel - ask Mussolini to take over the power in Italy to try to keep communists from rising.
Fascism - A government leb by a stronger dictator. Stresses strong nationalism, militarism, and imperialism. Uses intimidation to get what they want.
Rome- Berlin Axis the alliance between Italy and German.
Axis Power
Major - Germany, Italy, Japan
Other Powers - Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Romania, Thailand, Hungary.
Italy goals - Make a new roman empire. Make the Mediterranean sea an Italian lake. Take over northern Africa colonies of Britain and France - especially Egypt.
Invaded Albania - 1940. Italy's invasion of Greece - 1940.
Italy lost the war because they were ready for war.
Wednesday. Thursday, Friday.
Germany
Adolf Hitler -
leader of Germany.
Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933
President Von Hindenburg appointed him. Died a year latter. Hitler burns the Riechstag building and blames communist and becomes more powerful
Sudetenland Crisis - 1938
"Re-Uniting German speaking country.
Munich Conference
- Hitler was given the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia.
- Hitler promised that he was done taking over territories.
Winston Churchill opposed Neville Chamberlain with how he was giving Hitler what he wanted.
Hitler breaks his promise about taking over land. In 1939 Hitler takes over Czechoslovakia
Soviet - German Non Aggression Pact
- Russia gave raw material to Germany in exchange for money and weapon
- both agreed to stay neutral if the other entered the war
- Secretly agree 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.
Tripartite Pact
- Signed in 1940 by Italy, Japan, Germany forming the Axis Power
Spring 1940 the The "Phony War"
Hitler invaded with the Blitzkrieg - Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, France.
France surrenders in 1940
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