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Diagnostics

I. Aggressive acts leading to WW1

A. Manchuria, 1931
1) Japan invades for raw materials
2) league of nations protests: Japan tells league to go to hell and mind their own business
3) nothing done to stop Japanese aggression 1931 - 1941…cowards, all of them…
4) 1933: Japan leaves the league
5) US holds back and lets Japan do its thing; they were lame anyways
B. Ethiopia 1935
1) Italy attacks over boarder dispute between Ethiopia and Italian somaliland to restore order
Patrick is a loser
2) League only mildly protests, Britain and France do nothing. Told you they were cowards
3) league imposes sanctions on Italy: ineffective
4) 1937:: Italy says so long to the league
5) rome-berlin axis formed. Japan says what's up.(joins it you dummy)
C. Spanish civil war 1936 - 1939
1) nationalists vs. Loyalists
2) loyalists support republic form of government led by a king
3) nationalists led by Francisco Franco who was a fascist
4) France gains outside support Germany Italy
5) no outside support for loyalists; Franco wins in 1939
6) war was used by the Germans and the Italians as a testing ground for their new tech stuff and techniques etc…
D. Austria march 1938
1) Hitler invades to unify German speaking people
2) Austrian people don't resist …they support Hitler
3) no action taken by France of Britain
4) gives Germany border with ally Italy and a foot hold in central Europe
E. Czechoslovakia November 1938
1) Hitler wants the sudetanland claiming mostly Germans live in this region
2) Britannia and France protest .. arrange a meeting with Hitler in Munich
3) Munich pact: meeting of Britain, France, Germany, Italy. Attempt to preserve the peace at all costs (appeasement)
4) sudetenland given to Hitler; promises no more
5) Hitler takes the rest of Czechoslovakia in march 1939

II. Axis powers on the move 1939-1940
A. Poland September 1939
1) August 1939: Hitler & Stalin sign a 10 year non-aggression pact
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