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the Japanese army used a staged terrorist attack on the south Manchuria railway as an excuse to invade Manchuria. Following the Mukden Incident, the army of the empire of japan invaded Manchuria- how did the world react
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Mussolini attacked Ethiopia/ in 1936 Hitler began a military buildup in violation of the treaty of Versailles and in march 1936 he violated the treaty again by sending troops into the Rhineland which had been demilitarized// the first neutrality acts came in 1935 where the government employed an embargo on all the parties of the warring countries. They banned munitions exports to belligerents
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the 1939 act banned us ships from carrying goods or passengers to belligerent ports bit allowed the united states to sell munitions although on a cash and carry basis
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by June of 1936, Ethiopia fell and the ousted king pled for help from the league which did nothing/ the Rome-berlin axis formed during the Spanish civil war Hitler and Mussolini agreed to work together on several international issues it became known as the "the pact of steel"/ the anti-Comintern pact was created between nazi Germany and Japan on November 25, 1936
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in 1937 Italy also joined the pact//// the neutrality act of 1937 was enabled in response to the Spanish civil war it tightened restrictions on us businesses and private individuals assisting belligerent and prohibited traveled by us citizens on ships of belligerents/// the 1937 act extended the banning of munition to those fighting civil wars and FDR would have the authority to restrict non-munition ales to cash and carry meaning they would have to pay before the goods were exported
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treaty of Versailles forbade the union of Germany and Austria....in 1938, Hitler annexed Austria/// Austrian chancellor Kurt von schuschnigg was bullied into agreeing to a greater nazi presence within Austria. he hoped that agreeing to Hitler's demands would prevent a German invasion/// on march 12 1938 german troops marched into Austria and by April 10 a vote was taken// to prevent war Britain, France, Italy, and Germany met at the Munich conference on September 9, 1938
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March 15, 1939: german troops poured into what remained of Czechoslovakia/// after a fierce debate in Congress in November of 1939 a final neutrality act passed// august 22, 1939, german foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop met with stain and soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and created a pact// as day broke on September 1, 1939, the german Luftwaffe (air force) roared over Poland raining bombs on airfields military bases, railroads, and cities