The Outbreak of War How the world fell back into another World War…
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- The Outbreak of War How the world fell back into another World
War
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- Japan at War Invasion of Manchuria 1931 Militarists in control
Emperor Hirohito League of Nations protests invasion Japan leaves
the League in 1933
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- Marco Polo Bridge incident - July 1937 Full invasion of China
1937 China in collapse US aids Chinese over the Burma Road Flying
Tigers Panay Incident Dec 1937 Japanese Atrocities Rape of Nanking
The Conflict Expands
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- Italian Expansion League failures with Japan give Mussolini an
idea Mussolini seizes Ethiopia Oct. 1935 Haile Selassie (King of
Ethiopia) asks League for help League asks Mussolini nicely he
ignores them Britain then allows Italy to use the Suez Canal in
Egypt
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- Hitler and Nazi Germany Hitler rises legally to Chancellor of
Germany New German Social Order Fuhrer used propaganda and his
speaking skills to enshrine himself, along with: Anti-German books
burned Criticism of the govt outlawed Children made to join Hitler
Youth or League of German Girls Josef Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda
Chief
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- Appeasement APPEASEMENT - policy of giving in to an aggressors
demands in order to keep the peace March 1935 Hitler pulls out of
Versailles Build up of military starts in 1933 planned to triple
the size of the army initially 300,000 men Told Air ministry to
plan to build 1,000 planes (by 1935 the Luftwaffe had 2,500 planes)
March 1936 militarizes Rhineland (League upset) Britain and France
appease Oct-Nov 1936 Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis Agreement by the three
nations to fight Soviet communism Agreed not to interfere with one
anothers plans for territorial expansion
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- The Olympics 1938 Matthias Sindelar, Austrian who refused to
play for Anschluss Team. Was killed for defiance
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- The Spanish Revolution Well everyone else was doing it 1931
Republic replaced the Monarchy 1936 Socialists and Communists win
seats Attempt to de-Catholicize Spain Angry Catholics and
Conservatives rebel under Francisco Franco Germany/Italy - Franco
USSR Socialists, Communists Democracies stay out of it Franco wins
dictator in 1939 This becomes a dress rehearsal for German and
Russian militaries
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- The West Stands By France and Britain both afraid of war Still
dealing with Depression Trying to understand the point of the
losses of WWI US wants isolation Neutrality Acts bans loans and
weapon sales to belligerent countries
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- Anschluss and the Munich Conference March 1938 Hitler annexes
Austria League sends strongly worded message Sudetenland Crisis and
Lebensraum 3 million Germans living in Czech region Sept 1938 -
Munich Conference A line in the sands
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- Appeasement The Munich Agreement 1938
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- A Lone Voice Winston Churchill
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- Hitler Keeps Pushing the Line 5 months later Hitler occupies
Czechoslovakia (allies make a new line in the sand) Hitler demands
Polish corridor and port of Danzig (Gdansk) to connect East Prussia
Lebensraum again
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- The Enemy of My Enemy Hitler and Allies approach USSR at the
same time USSR sides with Hitler because they need to rebuild after
the Purges NON-AGGRESSION PACT 1939 pact between Soviet Union and
Germany that divided eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres
of influence Germany removes threat of two- front war