Treaty of Versailles
Germany defies the Treaty
1931 The Beginning
Alliances and Aggressions
Japan invades Manchuria and sets up a puppet government.
Japan:
* 1930s - Japanese Nationalism on the Rise
* Emperor Hirohito and General Tojo
* 1931 - Japan Invades Manchuria
* 1934 - Japan increased the size of its naval forces
* 1937 - Japan invades China
- Nanking Massacre (200,000-300,000 Chinese
were massacred in the capital city)
* 1940 - Japan allies with the Axis Powers (Germany and Italy)
by 1937 China and Japan are in an all out war
Italy:
* 1922 - Mussolini takes power in Italy and sets up a Fascist state
* 1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia (re-establish the Roman Empire)
* 1936 - Mussolini and Hitler form an alliance
* 1924- Lenin dies and Stalin takes power
* 1929 - Stalin begins a five year PURGE
* 1939 - Stalin and Hitler sign a Nonaggression Pact
Treaty of Versailles and Japan...
Japan was given claims in the islands in the South Sea
US OPPOSED this
Germany
* 1919 - Hitler joins the Nationalist Socialist Party
* 1923 - Hitler is jailed after leading a failed revolt
- Mein Kampf
* 1933 - Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany
- Hitler withdraws from the League of Nations
* 1935 - Hitler begins a build-up of the German military
* 1936 - Germany invades Austria (Third German Reich)
* 1938 - Germany takes Czechoslovakia
* 1939 - Germany invades Poland using the Blitzkrieg
APPEASEMENT
France and Great Britain did not stop Germany because they did not want another war. They were willing to let him go as long as he did not become too aggressive.