https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm en-us 2023-02-15 22:14:37 UTC 2025-05-31 13:09:52 UTC hello@padlet.com 10661112 https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484510094 The Japanese delegation, defying world opinion, withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly today after the assembly had adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria.]]> 2023-02-16 05:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484510094 10661112 https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484510792 Throughout the early 20th century the Japanese had maintained special rights in Manchuria, and they had felt that the neutrality of the area was necessary for the defense of their colony in Korea.]]> 2023-02-16 05:27:00 UTC https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484510792 10661112 https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484511184  Adolf Hitler announced that he would rearm Germany in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler revealed that Germany had begun to construct an air force, and unveiled plans to reinstitute conscription and create a German army of more than half a million men]]> 2023-02-16 05:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484511184 10661112 https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484511844 Congress passed the first Neutrality Act prohibiting the export of “arms, ammunition, and implements of war” from the United States to foreign nations at war and requiring arms manufacturers in the United States to apply for an export license.]]> 2023-02-16 05:28:35 UTC https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484511844 10661112 https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484512871 Italy invaded Ethiopia in October 1935, launching a war that would drive Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie into exile, pave the way for Italian occupation, and test the capacity and will of the League of Nations to check the aggression of expansionist states.]]> 2023-02-16 05:29:31 UTC https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484512871 10661112 https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484513294  Adolf Hitler sent over 20,000 troops back into the Rhineland, an area that was supposed to remain a demilitarized zone according to the Treaty of Versailles. The area known as the Rhineland was a strip of German land that borders France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.]]> 2023-02-16 05:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484513294 10661112 https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484513687 German involvement in the Spanish Civil War commenced with the outbreak of war in July 1936, with Adolf Hitler immediately sending in powerful air and armored units to assist General Francisco Franco and his Nationalist forces.

]]> 2023-02-16 05:30:42 UTC https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484513687 10661112 https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484515003 s he began to set his sights on the Soviet Union, German dictator Adolf Hitler boasted of the blind obedience that he would be able to command from the German people in a struggle against bolshevism. Hitler’s tirades against bolshevism were delivered not only in order to justify German intervention on the side of the fascist-oriented Falange in the Spanish Civil War]]> 2023-02-16 05:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484515003 10661112 https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484515461 Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact, which sealed the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace.]]> 2023-02-16 05:33:09 UTC https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484515461 10661112 https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484516088 The other European powers did not punish the Nazis for violating international treaties. Their acceptance of the Anschluss was a significant act of appeasement. It allowed Adolf Hitler to continue his expansionary policies unchecked. ]]> 2023-02-16 05:34:03 UTC https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484516088 10661112 https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484516880 Joseph Stalin held similar views of Germany and the Nazi Party. To the surprise of almost everyone, the two dictators announced a nonaggression pact on August 23, 1939. The two men agreed that their countries would not to attack each other, either independently or along with other nations]]> 2023-02-16 05:35:16 UTC https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484516880 10661112 https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484517806 . An agreement was quickly reached on Hitler's terms, and signed by the leaders of Germany, France, Britain, and Italy. The Czechoslovak mountainous borderland that the powers offered to appease Germany had not only marked the natural border between the Czech state and the Germanic states since the early Middle Ages, but it also presented a major natural obstacle to any possible German attack.]]> 2023-02-16 05:36:06 UTC https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484517806 10661112 https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484518389 To break the spirit of Chinese resistance, Japanese General Matsui Iwane ordered that the city of Nanking be destroyed. Much of the city was burned, and Japanese troops launched a campaign of atrocities against civilians. In what became known as the “Rape of Nanking,”]]> 2023-02-16 05:37:00 UTC https://padlet.com/10661112/kc8ol46dwv64iclm/wish/2484518389