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2. How did global aggression increase during the 1930s?
Notes #28

3. During the 1930s, Japan followed a policy of imperialism in order to acquire new sources of raw materials.
Emperor Hirohito
of Japan

4. For example, Japan seized the Chinese territory of Manchuria in 1931 and invaded China in 1937.

5. raped by Japanese troops
Nanking Massacre
(1937 – 1938);
called the
“Rape of Nanking”;
an estimated 300,000
Chinese people were
killed and
an estimated 20,000
Chinese women were
raped by Japanese troops

6. During the 1930s, Italy and Germany also followed policies of imperialism when Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935 and Germany annexed Austria in 1938.

7. Germany also rebuilt its army and sent troops into the Rhineland in 1936, which violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.

8. Through the policy of appeasement, several European nations gave in to the demands of these aggressors, in order to maintain peace.

9. An example of appeasement was Britain and France allowing Germany to take Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland at the Munich Conference in 1938.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
with Adolf Hitler at the Munich Conference