HSTR 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Carpet Bombing, Dive Bomber, Rhine
22 Jan 2017
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Destroys the british and french alliance and drives italy and germany together. Public opinions of british and french was opposite of their governments to be more critical of italy. Rocks the league of nations; did next to nothing for the japanese invasion of. Manchuria (1931 september), abyssinia was a member of the league of nations: abyssinia asks league of nations to send help against italy. League of nations impose a trade embargo on italy; participation is voluntary, implies a lot of goods but not all goods, i. e. oil. Will play a role in the creation of united nations; league was a very weak power: roosevelt changes so that the un will have leading powers (britain, us, ussr, British and french are strongly anti-italian, germany supports italy- gives them oil throughout the war. Perceived as a naked aggression due to the darwinism ideology that war was natural. Germans cannot have any fortifications nor weapons west of the rhine river.
