Aggressive Events leading toward WWII

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Aggressive Events leading toward WWII
COUNTRY DATES AGGRESSIVE EVENTS
Japan Pg 460
Italy Pg 461
Germany Pgs 461 and 463
Spain Pg 462
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Japan

• Japan Invaded Manchuria in 1931 and most of
  Eastern China by 1938
• Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
• 1936

Japan captures Shanhai Pass of the Great Wall
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Italy

• Mussolini invades Ethiopia in 1935 to seek
  revenge on Italian defeat in 1896

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Germany

• Violated the Versailles treaty whenever possible
  built up military, re-armed the Rhineland,
  invaded and annexed Austria 1936

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Spain

• Brutal civil war 1936 eventually Fascist leader
  Francisco Franco wins (1939) with help from
  Hitler and Italy (they tested military weapons on
  Spanish civilians over 500,000 killed)

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Guernica, Picasso 1937
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Aggression in Europe and Africa September 1939
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Invasion of Poland WWII Begins September 1,
1939

• Blitzkrieg Tactics integration of tanks, air
  power and motorized infantry combined with SPEED
• 1. heavy air and artillery bombardment
• 2. conventional infantry flank attack with smoke
  screen to conceal gathering of tanks
• 3. Tanks attack with support from motorized
  divisions
• 4. The Stuka precision bombing and frightening
  whine

Invasion of Poland
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The German Stuka
Blitzkrieg in action