HIST1094 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: United States Pacific Fleet, Attack On Pearl Harbor, Nanking Massacre
Document Summary
Japan increasingly imperialistic-advocates for peaceful diplomacy or democracy persecuted, often murdered. Japan takes excuse of instability in china to seize manchuria in 1932. Japanese commit numerous atrocities, including nanjing massacre in december 1937, killing about 200,000 in chinese capital. The civil war in spain, 1936-1939: 1931: second spanish republic founded, replacing the previous military dictatorship, 1936: a leftist parliament is elected. Nationalist generals led by francisco franco mutiny, encouraged by landowners and church. Republicans/loyalists and nationalists: the war becomes a proxy conflict for the left and the right. Mexico back the republicans; nazi germany and fascist italy support the nationalists: liberal powers britain, france, usa officially neutral. International volunteers becomes important: international brigades of leftists join. Republicans, soldiers from fascist countries (cid:862)(cid:448)olu(cid:374)teer(cid:863) to fight for fra(cid:374)(cid:272)o: political divisions between republicans weaken their forces communists, encouraged by stalin, split with anarchists and republicans, 1939: fra(cid:374)(cid:272)o"s for(cid:272)es defeat repu(cid:271)li(cid:272)a(cid:374)s, e(cid:374)d pa(cid:374)ish repu(cid:271)li(cid:272).
