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Empire of the Sun 1933-39

Empire of the Sun 1933-39. By 1934 half of Japan’s yearly income was spent on the armed forces. Army influenced the government to follow aggressive policies. Aims of Generals – Pacific Islands, China and Manchuria

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Empire of the Sun 1933-39

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  1. Empire of the Sun 1933-39 • By 1934 half of Japan’s yearly income was spent on the armed forces. • Army influenced the government to follow aggressive policies. • Aims of Generals – Pacific Islands, China and Manchuria • 1936 Anti-Comintern Pact – As a result of USSR aggression and Chinese defiance. Italy soon joined in 1937.

  2. Reactions from other countries • League – advised cut trade and condemned Japan • British had interests in Chinese ports. 10 weeks needed for help to arrive so did not want to provoke Japan. • 1938 British ship attack (HMS Ladybird) – compensation demanded and apology asked for. • USA – isolationist • By 1939 – Japanese found only USSR would stand up against her.

  3. Source A The Versailles Treaty is worthless. 60 million German hearts and minds are on fire with anger and shame. They will cry out ‘We want war!’ Mein Kampf (a book written by Hitler, 1924). The revival of Germany 1933-35 Source B It will be the duty of German foreign policy to get large spaces to feed and house the growing population of Germany. Destiny points us towards Russia. Hitler, Mein Kampf (1924). What was Hitler’s foreign policy aims and how was he going to achieve much of this? Source C The menace of Russia hangs over Germany.   All our strength is needed to rescue our nation from this international snake. Hitler, Mein Kampf (1924)

  4. Rearmament • Aims needed an armed force • In 1933 secretly started to rebuild army and airforce • 1933 withdrew from Geneva Disarmament talks and League of Nations • By March 1935 – 2500 aircraft, 300,000 men and more were planned but in the open

  5. Reactions to rearmament • Effects of the Depression - money • Britain – other concerns • France – Maginot Line • Italy – 1934 Austrian Chancellor killed (suspected Nazi connection), could be an attempt on control. Mussolini placed troops on Italian, Austrian border

  6. Hitler to Harmann Rauschning, 1934 • “We need space,” he almost shrieked, “to make us independent… In the east, we must have mastery as far as the Caucasus and Iran. In the west, we need the French coast. We need Flanders [Belgium] and Holland. Above all we need Sweden. We must become a colonial power. We must have a sea power equal to that of Britain… We cannot… limit ourselves to national aims. We must rule Europe or fall apart as a nation… In the centre I shall place the steely core of a Greater Germany… Then Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, western Poland. A block of one hundred million, indestructible, without a flaw, without an alien element. The firm foundation of our power.”

  7. Task • Shade all the land which Hitler said Germany needed • In another colour, shade the areas that would become a German-speaking ‘Greater Germany’ • What do you think the reactions MIGHT have been if the other countries had heard this in 1934?

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