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• General Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces take control of
Franco was from a military family, and although originally intent on entering the Spanish Navy, he instead became a soldier. He participated in the Rif War in Morocco, becoming the youngest general in Europe by 1926. After returning to the Spanish mainland, he saw service suppressing an anarchist-led strike in 1934, defending the stability of Alcalá-Zamora's conservative government -
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• The Japanese Army invades Manchuria
Situation in 1931 when Japanese troops, claiming that Chinese soldiers had tried to blow up a railway line.They took matters in their own hands by capturing several southern Manchurian cities. By continuing to take over the country even after Chinese troops had withdrawn. Japan's civilian government tried but failed to prevent the army from taking further action. -
• Britain’s Neville Chamberlain and Hitler meet at the Munich Conference.
His policies of avoiding war with Germany have been the subject of intense debate for seventy years among academics, politicians and diplomats. To the judgement that he had no alternative and acted in Britain's best interests.The word "appeasement" has been used as a synonym for weakness and even cowardice since the 1930s, and it is still used in that sense to denounce policies and behaviors that conflict with firm, often armed, action in international relations. -
Hitler (Germany) invades Poland, beginning WWII
when hitler invaded poland it took his not see forces less than a month to take control of the country. He took poland by surprise using the new techinque of blitz crew using planes followed by tanks and artillary then ground forces.As the Germans advanced, Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish-German border to more established lines of defence to the east. -
• Mussolini (Italy) conquers Ethiopia
As a result, the colony of Italian East Africa proved to be short-lived. The Italians attacked British and Commonwealth forces in the Sudan, Kenya, and British Somaliland. While in exile in England, Haile Selassie had sought to gain the support of the Western democracies for his cause
