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Manchuria: The Japanese
Kwantung Army invaded
Manchuria starting
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1922 1931 Stimson Doctrine:

Washington Naval Kellogg-Braid Pact: Pact Placed because of non-
Conference: Series of signed by U.S., France, 1933
recognition of
meetings held in order to Britain, Germany, Italy, international territory
discuss interests in the Japan, and others that changes. (Japanese
Pacific Ocean. Nine prohibited the aggressive violation of Open Door
nations agreed on the war and the use of war as Policy.)
reductions of all naval “an instrument of national
arms to promote peace. policy.”

Dawes Plan: Plan for the

American Triple Entente to collect
Germany’s reparation
&Allies dues at the end of WWI.
However, it did not follow
through.
Reactions
 Nuremberg Laws:
These laws were put
into place in order to
restrict the basic rights Japan Invades
of Jewish people in China: To move into
Germany. the center of Asia,
Japan violently Hitler & Austria:
invades China. They In 1938, Hitler
use methods that moves his troops
Hitler & the Rhineland: into Austria. This
Mussolini Invades By 1936, Hitler moved spark fear
Ethiopia: Benito throughout the land was important
German troops to the for him to have
chose to invade the Rhineland, which was whole world of their
African country to power. power over because
before prohibited to the he was from Austria.
further glorify the Germans after WWI.
Roman Empire as However, no one
1934 “number one.”
1935-37 attempted to stop Hitler. 1937 1938

Nye Committee: 1935 Neutrality 1936 1937

Committee that Acts: put into 1938
was devoted to place by the
studying the United States Quarantine Speech: FDR
causes of U.S. in order to delivers a speech that
involvement in insure explains European Munich Agreement:
WWI. It was a big isolationism aggressors should be Overall, the agreement
factor in from the acts quarantined by the allowed the Germans
promoting the idea happening in international community. to take over the
of U.S. neutrality. Europe. Sudetenland without
repercussions.
Hitler Invades
Poland: Hitler used
the Fall Weil Plan to Nazi-Soviet Pact:
invade Poland. Germany & the Soviet
Through this, troops Union agreed that in
came from the west, the case either was
north, and through attacked from a third Fall of
Slovak areas. party, the two would France/Dunkirk:
remain neutral towards Although Allied
each other. troops had fought
Hitler & Czech: hard to evacuate,
In 1939, Hitler Hitler Invades
Hitler waited out 3 Japan Joins Tripartite
again moved his Russia: Hitler was
days in order to Act: Japan agreed to
troops to gain able to occupy
attack & join the pact with
more control, Moscow & large
successfully, won Germany and Italy.
this time over parts of Ukraine
both battles. Their objective was
Czechoslovakia. using large numbers
of troops against the mainly to “set up a new
Russians. order of things.”
1939 1940

Destroyers for Base

1939 Deal: Agreement
1940
between the U.S. and U.S. Stops exports to
the U.K. that gave the Japan: In 1940, the United
U.K. 10 naval States cut off exports of
destroyers in return for steel and iron to Japan in
Cash and Carry: America First response to their joining of
U.S. possession of a
Replaced the Committee: Became the Axis Powers.
naval base.
Neutrality Acts. This the first non-
policy allowed for the interventionist group Atlantic Charter: Policy
sales of goods to that protested American statement that defined the
“belligerents” as long involvement in the war goals of war against the
as they used their own overseas. Lend Lease: Axis Powers. It was brought
transportation. United States up mainly by the United
supplied States and Great Britain.
many Allies
with war
materials
they needed.
Japan invades Indochina: The
Japanese continued to move
west, taking control of anything
that lay in its way. Indochina
was essential in having control
over because with it under
Japanese control, China was
completely cut off.
 Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor:
On December 7, 1941, Japanese
attacked the harbor using their
navy in order to “keep U.S. out of
interfering with further problems
1941 occurring in Asia and Europe.

1941

U.S. Declares War: After the attack on

Pearl Harbor, the United States
officially calls for war against the
Japanese. This event directly brought
the United States into WWII because of
the attack on the home.