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Causes of WW2 (Abyssnia 1935 (Hoare-Laval Pact (Chat with aggressor tactic…

- - - - Austria - 8 million german speakers, many want to join with Germany
      - Sudetenland - 3 million German speakers, had been part of the Austrian Empire
- - - - China was on the brink of a civil war and were afraid they would lose control of the railway
      - Afraid USSR would take advantage of a civil war and take land from China
      - Claimed that the Chinese were sabotaging the South Manchuria Railway
    - - The Depression hit Japan bad, no one is buying silk (main export)
  - - - League then does nothing
  - - - The Lytton Report was a year after the invasion
      - Economic sanction were ineffective because Japans economy had already collapsed
      - Japan had take much of china: shanghai and the eastern coast
    - - Japan is large investor, part of the council
      - Countries are going through the depression and can't afford to
      - Anti-war movements from the public
    - - it had been hit hard by the depression
      - no natural resources of her own
      - USSR and China Civil War pressured Japan to defend her interests
- - - - USA
        
        Tariffs put on foreign goods "protectionism"
        
        14$ billion wiped off share values in just 1 day
        
        By 1933, 14 million people are unemployed
      - Britain
        
        Forms an emergency "national" government
      - France
        
        builds the Maginot line
    - - Germany
        
        elects Hitler
      - Japan
        
        invades Manchuria for fresh resource
      - Italy
        
        Invades Abyssinia for fresh resources