EUH 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Anschluss, Lebensraum, Eugenics
29 May 2017
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Japan: modernization (from 1853), imperialism, meiji reforms, removed daimyo"s. Infrastructure, finance, education: military assumed control of government, fascism, pm tojo 10/41 to end. Militarist, anti-communist, dictatorial, anti-western, corporatist state (meaning the government and corporations work together) Manchuria 1931-1939 (invaded by japan and occupied until the end of the world war) China 1937 (at war with japan; assistance from germany, the. Soviet union, and the u. s. ; eventually merged into the beginning of wwii) Ussr by 1939: had expanded into central asia, russification of minorities, increased control of party, purges, by stalin, isolated by west. Italy: ignored the versailles, weakened by the war, mussolini and fascists came into power by 1922. Weak government (marched to rome and put himself in charge) Party leadership, blackshirts (actually wore black shirts) Germany: angered by versailles, hitler and national socialists nazi party, majority in reichstag 1933. Race and eugenics, racial purity and nuremburg laws (excluded.
