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Events Between the Wars. German Depression began in 1923. Weimar Republic failed. “Stabbed in the back theory.” Unemployment & inflation. 1923 Munich Uprising – Hitler sent to jail; wrote Mein Kampf 1932 Hitler became Chancellor 1933 Reichstag fire 1934 Fascist police state created.
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German Depression began in 1923. • Weimar Republic failed. • “Stabbed in the back theory.” • Unemployment & inflation
1923 Munich Uprising – Hitler sent to jail; wrote Mein Kampf • 1932 Hitler became Chancellor • 1933 Reichstag fire • 1934 Fascist police state created
Japanese Ambassador Tojo visited Germany in 1938 • Tokyo-Rome-Berlin Axis • Japan became a military dictatorship with Emperor by 1931
Hitler & Chamberlain – appeasement • 1936: Rhineland • 1938: Austria & Sudetenland (w. region of Czechoslovakia) • 1938: Munich Conference • 1939 Czechoslovakia • 1939: Poland
US declares Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, & 1937 • Appeasement: to temporarily satisfy • “Peace in our time!”
1937: US stopped selling gasoline & scrap metal to Japan • 1941: Tojo became Prime Minister • 1941: French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) taken by Japan • December 7, 1941, “A date which will live in infamy.”