Expansion

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Expansion
Lebensraum
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Post World War I

• Rise of Totalitarianism
• Europes infrastructure, economy and population
  had been devastated by the war.
• People became discontented with their leaders.
• Leaders who reflected the peoples bitterness and
  anger emerged.

• Treaty Of Versailles
• France thought the treaty was too easy on
  Germany.
• Italy had been on the winning yet didnt gain
  territory they wanted.
• Despite gaining German Colonies in the pacific,
  Japan was not satisfied, they also aimed to
  expand into China.

• Germany
• Germany gave up control of some of its land,
  including some important industrial areas
• Reparations to other countries, led to a period
  of severe inflation.
• The German military was greatly reduced in size
  and power.
• War Guilt Clause

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Japan
Invasion
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Japan 1930s

• Worldwide depression
• 1931, Mukden Incident
• 1937, Rape of Nanking
• U.S.S. Panay
• Economic Sanctions

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Increasing Tensions in East Asia
1934 Japan began expanding its naval forces
despite promises made at the Washington Navel
Conference. 1936 Japan signed an anticommunism
pact with Germany.
1937 Japan began a war against China. 1940 Japan
formed a military alliance with Germany and
Italy. These nations were known as the Axis
Powers.
1941 Japan moved to take control of French
Indochina, which threatened American interests.
President Roosevelt tried to reason with General
Hideki Tojo, the minister of war who took control
of the country in October of 1941.
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Italy
Mussolini Unchecked
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Fascism-Italy

• Italy is in turmoil
• Restricted Rights
• Control through Intimidation
• New Roman Empire
• 1935 Invasion of Ethiopia

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Spanish Civil War

• Conflict between political factions
• General Francisco Franco comes to power.
• 1936-1939, Civil War
• Non-Intervention Committee
• War by proxy

Francisco Franco
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Adolf Hitler Gains Power

• The
• Rhineland
• Restricted from Rhineland.
• Hitler sent troops into the Rhineland in 1936.
• Appeasement

• Alliances
• 1936, Japan signed agreement with Germany.
• 1939, Established a nonaggression pact with
  Stalins Soviet Union .
• 1940, Established a pact with Italy
• Axis Powers are united

• The Sudetenland
• German-speaking portion of Czechoslovakia.
• Munich Pact, 1938
• Appeasement

• Poland
• September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland.
• Blitzkrieg, or lightening war.
• Sept. 3rd 1939
• Britain and France declare war!

• The Anschluss
• Unite the ethnic Germans of Austria
• Hitler sends troops in 1936
• Appeasement

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Fall of France

• Sitzkrieg
• 1940, Hitler invaded Denmark and Norway in order
  to gain valuable submarine bases on the Atlantic
  Ocean.
• Maginot Line
• Dunkirk
• Vichy France

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Battle of Britain

• The Nazi Air force (Luftwaffe) bombed British
  cities for three months.
• The RAF (Royal Air Force) drove off the Luftwaffe
  and the Nazis abandoned plans to invade Britain.