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Manchuria and Abyssinia
- JAPAN
- had undergone industrial revolution
and had become one of the biggest
powers in asia
- still had lots of exports
- relied on others to sell them (like US)
- US passed tariffs to
protect their own
businesses, but that
hurt Japan
- MANCHURIA
- china had civil war going on
- independent from China,
with a lot of natural
resources
- no brainer for japan
- Japan invades Manchuria an turns it into Manchukuo
- China asks League of Nations for help
- LEAGUE OF NATIONS RESPONSE
- only member with sizeable navy was UK
- they were 5000 miles away!
- and they had no real interest in Manchuria
- Japan had been given complete control over pacific
- sent a commission to investigate
- Lytton Commission Report
- said Japan used too much force but left
the situation alone, giving Japan
Manchukuo as a puppet state
- Japan withdrew from League of Nations
- ABYSSINIA
- WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
- One of the most important events leading to Hitlers rise in power
- leads to collapse of the Geneva disarmament talks
- leads germany to withdraw from league of nations
- germany announces rearmament policies
- ITALY POST WWI
- 1 of most up and coming nations in europe before
hitler came to power
- defended treaty of versailles
- concerned with south tyrol
- spoke german, hitler wanted it back
- mussolini met with GB &
france to thwart germany but
no plans were made
- Stressa Front:
- agreement to uphold
Locarno pact and
independence in austria
(GB, France, Italy)
- WHY WAS ABYSSINIA A TARGET FOR THE ITALIANS
- expanded Italy's colonial holdings
- created new Roman Empire
- logical choice
- only african territory available
- had oil deposits and new army recruits
- began with border
dispute between
abyssinia and
somaliland
- went to LoN in 1935
- HOW DID THE WORLD RESPOND?
- 51 nations imposed sanction against Italy
- sanctions don't include oil and GB keeps selling it to them
- solution was hoarse laval pact
- WHAT PLAN WAS DESIGNED?
- French and British
devise plan to settle
crisis in Abyssinia
and avoid losing Italy
as an Ally
- plan failed due to lack of public
support and Mussolini's refusal
to accept only a part of
Abyssinia
- Abyssinia fell to Italy
- Hitler reoccupied Rhineland shortly after
- Hitler realizes that GB and France won't resort to force