HIST 1707 Lecture Notes - Machine Project, George Orwell, Appeasement
7 Jul 2014
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Great depression wreaked social and economic havoc all over the world. Italy (fascists), germany (nazi), japan (militarist ultranationalists), soviet union (stalinist). World war ii started in asia, with japan. Depression hit japan like a tidal wave peasants were starving and literally eating bark off trees. Were violently anti-western and rejected democracy, variations of socialism and marxism. Foreign expansion was the solution to japans problems. Japan had colonies in korea and taiwan already. Already working to forge these two colonies into a larger japan and wanted to create a self-sufficient economic bloc. Militarists said conquering other parts of asia would be good for peasants to get property, business people, etc. Japan started in 1931 by invading manchuria, a part of china. Japanese owned railroad tracks and blamed it on the chinese, using it as a pretense to invade manchuria. China protested to league of nations, and the lon condemned japan but did nothing more.
