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Gustav Stresemann (German) respects eastern borders of France and Belgium & agress to demilitarization of Rhineland. Germany admitted to League of Nations. Aristide Briand (France) yields claims to invade Germany. France finishes separate treaties with Poland & Czechoslovakia for mutual assistance. France tries to create a cordon sanitaire around Germany.
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Pact outlawed offensive war signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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Japan attacks Manchuria and creates Manchuckuo. Japan withdraws from League of Nations. US creates Stimson Doctrine (refuses to recognize Manchukuo but did nothing else).
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German Faust made Mephistopheles the head of the government.
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Hitler purges SA. Hindenburg dies and army swears oath of obedience to Hitler.
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Party Secretary Sergei Kirov murdered (murder ordered by Stalin). Stalin begins purge. 400,000-10 mil deaths. 4 mil-7 mil arrests.
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Great Britain didn't regard Ethiopia as involving any vital interests. France tries to improve relations with Italy. Britain asks for League sanctions. Mussolini triumphs because of the failure of the League.
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GErmany denounces Locarno Treaty and reoccupy the Rhineland. France doesn't do anything. Great Britain concerned about Italy and Abyssinia. HItler convinced West can't attack him.
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2 fascist steates embrace.
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Germany and Japan sign this pact against enemy Russia.
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Nationalist forces led by Francisco Franco attempt to overthrow government. Hitler and Mussolini provide help for Franco transport, troops, the Condor Legion. Germans test Blitzkrieg techniques.
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Disorganization of Red Army after many are shot.
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Japanese Kwantung Army invades China. U.S. policy with China remain the Open Door.
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Conference between Hitler and Constantin Freiherr von Neurath and others. Hitler discusses living space in East for Germany. All 3 disagree/replaced 3 months later.
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Japanese aircraft attack and sink US gunboat Panay on the Yangtze River.
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Hitler invites Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg to pressure him to accept Nazis into his cabinet. Hitler makes him resign and Germany Army cross the border of Austria and announces Anschluss, the annexation of Austria.
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Hitler swallows Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain meets French President, Eduard Daladier. Mussolini and Hitler agree to a German partition of Czechoslovakia. Germany would occupy Sudetenland. France and Great Britain guarantee new borders. Hitler assures Chamberlain that he had no more territorial demans. APPEASEMENT
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The Germans refine their plans; the Allies waste their opportunity.
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Chamberlain states Britain will resist an attempt to dominate the world by force.
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West decides Hitler cannot be trusted.
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Britain and France offer Greece and Rumania guarantees of independence. Denmark, the Netherlands, and Switzerland are added a few days later.
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Japanese invade Soviet territory at Khalkin Gol. Marshal Zhukov envelops the position and destroys the Japanese force. Japan doesn't like Red Army.
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Hitler wants to attack Poland and destroy it. Also announces rearmament program must be completed by 1934 or 1944.
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If either became involved in a war, the other would remain neutral. Secret provisions divided Poland into halves. Russia received a free hand in Finland, Estonia and Latvia; Germany in Lithuania. Economic treaty permits Germany to make large purchases of critical materials. Stalin gains a large buffer zone between the Soviet Union and the German border; he also gains time, which, considering the impact of the Great Purge on the Red Army, isenormously important.
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Britain and France declare war on Germany. Stalin invades Poland Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia on Sept. 17.
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Stalin wishes to push the Finnish border farther away from Leningrad.
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The German blitzkrieg begins. Fearing a British invasion of Norway, Hitler decides to strike first.
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Aims for victory.
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Germany invades Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg, and France. US is affected by the war (becomes interested).
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FDR ircumvents isolationists by trading 50 over-age destroyers desperately needed by the British for naval/air bases in the West Indies.
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Churchill wanted to fight till the end, he doesn't care when and where.
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Churchill: Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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European and Pacific wars are now linked.
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Mussolini ends up haveing to save the Italian Army.
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FDR re-elected and enormous U.S. war making capacity begins to be mobilized.
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This act assits anyone resisting aggression, and it passed. Initially benefits China and Grea Britain.
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U.S. occupies Greeland and extends range of naval patrols & seizes all Axis shipping in U.S. ports. Hitler address war with Russia.
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Hitler invades Yugoslavia and Greece. Purpose is to secure southern flank for invasion of Russia and bail Mussolini.
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Japan concludes a nonaggression pact with Russia. Japan wants to clear its flank before moving into Indochina and the Dutch East Indies.
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Hitler addresses senior commanders and tells them they would wage a "race war without pity." Hitler was preparing for total war.
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U.S. occupies Iceland and extends North Atlantic patrols further.
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Japan invades Indochina. FDR freezes Japanese assets and embargoes oil and scrap iron sales to Japan. Pacific war inevitable.
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German U-boat torpedoes a US destroyer; FDR issues a "shoot-on-sight" order; U.S. is now fighting an undeclared war in the North Atlantic.
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U.S. attacked by air and naval forces of Japan. Days later, Japan attacks Hong Kong, the Philippines, and invades Malaya.
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Geman declaration of war against U.S. (HUGE German mistake). U.S. fully committed to a global war.