The Move To Global War

• 1931-1941 Japanese expansionism ^0468ef
  • Causes
    • impact of Japanese nationalism & militarism on foreign policy
    • Japanese domestic political and economic issues + their impact on foreign relations
    • Chinese political instability
  • Key events
    • 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria and Northern China
    • 1937-1945 Second Sino-Japanese War
    • 1940 Tripartite Pact (2025-09-16)
    • 1941 Pearl Harbour
  • Responses
    • League of Nations + Lytton report
    • political developments within China: Second United Front
    • international response: U.S. initiatives + rising American-Japanese tensions
• 1933-1940 German and Italian expansionism
  • Causes
    • Impact of fascism and Nazism on Italian & German foreign policy
      • 1933-1939 Hitler’s foreign policy
      • 1933-1940 Mussolini’s Foreign Policy
    • impact of domestic economic issues on Italian & German foreign policy
    • changing diplomatic alignments in Europe: 1930s End of Collective Security + appeasement
  • Events
    • 1933-1938 German challenges to post-war settlements
    • Italian expansionism
      • 1935 Abyssinian Crisis (2022, reviewed 2025-09-29)
      • 1939 Italian invasion of Albania (2025-09-29)
      • entry into WWII
    • 1938-1939 German expansionism
      • Pact of Steel
      • 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact
      • outbreak of war
  • Responses
    • 1933-1938 International response to German aggression
    • 1935-1936 International response to Italian aggression
    • 1940 international response to German and Italian aggression