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The Neutrlaity Acts
The U.S. congress passed a series of Neutrality acts and one law forbade the sale of arms to any nation at war. Other outlawed loans to warring nations and prohibited Americans from traveling on ship of warring powers. The goal was to avoid involvement in a European war. -
Japan overruns Manchuria
Japanese and extreme nationalists thought that Japan should be equal to the Western powers, therefore they built their military to seize China. There was a need of natural resources because of the Great Depression, and Manchuria was a perfect place that contained a lot of natural resources. -
Italy Invades Ethiopia
In Italy, Mussolini decided to tackle his imperialist goals and therefore conquered Ethiopia. Ethiopia resisted valiantly but their weapons were outdated, no match for Mussolini. Then the King appealed to the League of Nations for help, so they voted sanctions againt Italy. However, they had no power to enforce sanctions and Italy then conquered Ethiopia. It showed his power and greatness of his military and it also showed the League of Nations was weak. -
Hitlers goes against the Treaty of Versailles
In the eyes of Hitler he saw the Wetern deomicracies as weak and therefore he started to build the German military in defiance to the treaty. In addition he demilitarized Rhineland bordering France. The Western democracries didn't take real action but instead adopted appeasement. -
Spanish Collapses into War
Conservative general named Francisco Franco led a revolt that touched off the bloody Civil War. Francisco Franco was a fscist leader ed the revolt to create a fascist nation. He did not support Hitler. -
The Guernica Bombing
The bombing of Guernica was an attack on the small town during the Spanish Civil War. This was the Nazi fighter planes coming straight down from the air to exhbiit their power and show off their new modern warfare. -
Austria Annexed
Hitler was ready to Anschluss or unite Austria and Germany. Austria refused to obey HIterl's demands so Hitler sent an army in to "preserve order" . Hitler silenced any Austrians who opposed the annexation. -
The Czech Crisis
Germany turend to Czechoslavakia and gave three million Germans in Sudentanland autonomy. Then Germany's demands were that Czechoslavakia be annexed. Represents that power of the military. -
Nazi-Soivet Pact
The nazi-soviet pact bound Hilter and Stalin to peaceful relations. They agreed not to fight if the other went to war and to divide up Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe between them. This would give Stalin more time to prepare his military for war. -
Invasion of Poland
German forces invaded Poland a week after the pact. Two days later Britain and France declared war on Germany. -
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis
Three nations that agreed to fight Soviet communism and also agreed not to interfere with one another's plans for terriotrial expansion.
