Map by Gunter Forsythe

the Munich agreement

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leaders agreed to Hitlers demand for Sudetenland. in return Hitler promised he would not occupy anymore territory.

the nonaggression pact

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Russia and Germany agreed to take no military action against each other for 10 years. the agreement also contained a secret section that detailed the soviets and the Russians that they would split eastern Europe

Battle of Britain

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it was a air war fought between great Britain and Germany. Germany attempted to make them surrender with bomb threats.

purge

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elimination of CCP members in

Shanghai and other Chinese cities. Chiang’s troops killed tens of thousands of communists.

the long march in south east china

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86 thousand communists troops and around 15,000 civilians marched out of southeast China attempting to escape kmt forces.

embargo

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the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet from San Diego, California, to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The move was intended to enable the U.S. Navy to keep a closer watch on Japan.

appeasement

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a policy of making political compromises in order to avoid conflict. Neither country had forgotten the horrors of the World War and they sought to maintain peace at any price. In addition, many British politicians believed that Germany had genuine grievances as The Treaty of Versailles had left hundreds of thousands of German speaking people under the control of other countries in Europe.