Pacific Theater: Europe Theater

[Pages:37]Pacific Theater: -

Europe Theater: -

Compare and contrast the government responses to the economic destitution caused in the wake of WWI and the Great Depression...

? 1. independent origins in Asia and Europe ? 2. dissatisfied states on both continents

? 1. Japan's imperial ambitions of `20s and `30s ? 2. Japan more influential in Manchuria post-Russo Japanese War 1904/5

? a. Japan withdraws from League of Nations after condemnation over 1931 attacks ? b. Japan leans toward German and Italian alliance by 1936

? 3. attacks on Chinese heartland in 1937 ? 4. Japan feels threatened by international opinion

? a. racism ? b. reliant on strategic foreign goods (esp. USA) ? c. imperialist powers controlled SE Asia ? d. USSR and communism controlled north Asia

? 5. 1940-41: Japan launches conquest of European colonies

? a. Indochina, Malaya, Burma, Indonesia, Philippines) ? b. liberators "Asia for Asians" ? c. highly brutal rule ? d. Dec. 7, 1941 ? attack on Pearl Harbor

? 6. Pearl Harbor joined the Asian and European theaters of war into a single global struggle

? 1. Nazis promised revenge for injustices of Versailles ? 2. Britain, France and USSR appeasement ? 3. war was desirable for Nazi leadership

? a. "living space" in E. Europe ? b. rearmament in 1935 ? c. 1938: annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia Germans ? d. 1939: invade Poland, begins WWII in Europe

? 4. German strategy of blitzkrieg was initially successful ? 5. Germany quickly gained control of Europe before being turned back

in May `45

Basic Chronology

II. Axis Gains [Video 1]

? 1. Japan Invades China (1931 in Manchuria)

? a. The beginning of Japanese expansion ? b. Search for raw materials

II. Axis Gains [Video 2 & 3]

? 2. Invasion of Ethiopia

? a. Lasted from late 1935 to early 1936 ? b. Italy invaded Ethiopia

? i. Ethiopia losses but NEVER surrenders

? c. Shows ineffectiveness of League of Nations

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