Worldwide Economic Depression

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Worldwide Economic Depression

• Unemployment
• 1929 13.1 Germany, 8 U.K., 2 France
• 1932 30 Germany, 17 U.K., 15 France

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Worldwide Economic Depression

• Unemployment
• 1929 13.1 Germany, 8 U.K., 2 France
• 1932 30 Germany, 17 U.K., 15 France
• Fall in GNP, 1929-1932
• Germany 20
• England 6
• France 13

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Annual Indices of Manufacturing production,
1913-1938
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Relative War Potential
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Timeline to World War II in Europe

• 1936 remilitarization of the Rhineland.
• 1937 Lebensraum

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Timeline to World War II in Europe

• March 1938 Austrian Anschluss
• April 1938 Sudetenland
• September 1938Munich
• March 1939 Czech plebiscite

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Timeline to World War II in Europe

• August 1939 Nazi-Soviet pact
• September 2, 1939 Hitler invades Poland
• May 1940 Offensive into France
• July 1940 France surrenders
• Summer 1940 Battle of Britain
• June 22, 1941 Soviet Union invaded
• December 8, 1941 U.S. declares war

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Timeline to World War II in Asia

• 1931 Japan invades Manchuria
• 1936 Japan withdraws from Washington Treaty
• 1938 Japan announces East Asian Co-Prosperity
  Sphere
• 1940 Japan enters Indochina
• December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor

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Balance of Power 1937