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Part I-Uneasy Peace

1.The 'New Era': Hopes for peace in 1929 2. Great Depression
 * Locarno and the 'New era'
 * In Swiss in the town of Locarno statesman have meet to discuss the unsolved problem in Great War
 * 1# problem:German didn't pay the reparation to France nor Belgium so,1923 their army have occupied Germans Ruhr Valley
 * The discussion lead to creation of Locarno Treaties
 * German, France, Belgium respect the border: and don't create war like in year 1914,1923; Britain and Italy was responsible for this
 * France promised to support Poland and Chezcoslavakia, when German start dispute, promised they would not fight
 * This treaties have removed many suspicion.
 * Friendship Between Nations
 * In 1929 the era have began, one battle against Bolivia and Paraguay ended soon
 * Many peace agreement was signed
 * Kellogg-Briand Pact: agreement signed by Us Foreign Minister and France not to use war as settling dispute, in 1929 65 country have signed it
 * USSR signed Eastern pact with 6 neighboring country not to fight
 * Other nation also signed Iraq-Iran, Arabia-turkey etc..
 * The League of Nation
 * 1929 was a tenth anniversary for the League of Nation, the country who signed the League of Nation need to keep the world peace and if one country was attacked, they have to defend them, **collective security**
 * They have to do anything to keep the peace, there were three peace keeping action
 * Dispute by legal mean-in the court of permanent Court of International Justice
 * Impose economy Sanction on a attacker; the trade with attacker is abolished
 * Forming military Army to confront the attacker
 * The League of Nation solved 9 dispute against the member country
 * The members are improving the relationship between people by **Disssarment Commission** which is aiming to cut the weapon amount between countries to rely on Collective Security.
 * The Limitation of League
 * Although they made success in first 10 year but it had serious problems
 * First, not every country was belonged to the League, Us and USSR was not in the League, USSR oppose the League because they saw it as anti communism and US followed the policy of isolation.
 * Second, they didn't take it serious-German was excluded from 1926 and they view other nation as Victor
 * Third, their ability to keep the peace, They solved many of the conflict however the major country was not involved
 * Although their limitation many people was wanting to get engaged

3.Japan, Manchuria and the League 1931
 * Great Depression
 * 1929 the breakdown of the world economy- Great Depression
 * The stock exchange fall down to all time low, company get bankrupt and people lose job
 * Starting from Us it started to spread to most country
 * Government trying to defend them with new economic policy
 * In Us and Britain- Raised the customs duties on foreign good coming into their countries
 * Protectionism- its aim was to boost the demand for goods mad in their own countries by keeping out foreign goods
 * The protectionism have resulted of hurting the relationship between countries
 * Country become selfish, not co-operating, which was the motto for league of nation
 * The 2 problem was causing the unrest with the people, unemployment German, Japan, Eastern Europe was unemployed and starving It turned to the blame of the government
 * This resulted of arising of extreme party-German, Japan
 * The Problem of Empires
 * Great Depression added to the existing problem from individual country
 * French and Britain 1/3 of the world, with the back up with League of Nations
 * Italian wanted a bigger nation keep colonizing African Nation because they didn't got any land after WW1
 * Japan only got small island in the Pacific they want more
 * German lose almost whole country
 * As Great Depression continued they become more unhappy, to avoid the worth French and German did the trading with this countries
 * This country wanted to use their military to colonize. In German and French colonies they want independence

4. The Revival of Germany 1933-35 In 1933 German votes Adolf Hilter to become chancellor of Germany in January 1933
 * The attraction of Manchuria
 * Japan controlled Liaotong,Formosa, Korea, and Kiaochow but they didn't colonize Manchuria- Resource!
 * By 1931, They controlled most of the resource, mine, railway, factory and port so they keep a huge army in Kiaochow
 * During Great Depression they close half of the factory and people starved, with new countries, they could get raw materials and the purpose of future war
 * Japan invades Manchuria
 * Sept 1931 Japan planed a full scale invasion, they blew up the section of the Track and used that as a excuse to occupy Shenyang
 * League of Nation warned the country but Japan did not stop, they changed the name to Manzhukuo and the army didn't listen to order.
 * The League and Manchuria
 * No member from League of Nation wanted to set a sanction military, nor economic toward Japan
 * League sent a Britain's Lord Lytton to Manchuria to investigate, he wanted to satisfy both nation by setting Japan would give up the control of Manchuria and set as a independent state, However Japan have resigned from the League
 * It have tained it's reputation by losing one of their strongest supporter going to war
 * Hitler's foreign policy aims
 * Nazi party was set up in 1919, blamed the war for government official and get angry in the Treaty of Versaille, it have blamed them for starting the war, cut the force to minimum, pay demage and pay reparation
 * When Czech and Pole were allow to form it's new nation, they wanted to form their nation with German speaking people in Austria and many other German's are living in foreign firm.
 * He had 3 aim for foreign policy
 * Tear up the treaty of Versaille
 * Unite all German speaking people
 * Give German **Lebensraum** or living space
 * German didn't have enough food nor space for people so they want USSR and Poland
 * Re-armament
 * To achieve what Hitler want they need a huge army to conquer, however they didn't have a lot of army and they had weak navy and non of air support
 * He announced to built a armed force, Barracks, airfield and fortifications were to buit and he withdraw German from League of Nation
 * When the army had 300,000 men and 2500 aircraft he announced in public for increase in army
 * Reaction to German re-armament
 * In 1933 German had weak army and struggling with economic depression and other turmoils
 * No other country have Germany from getting big in power, Britain had their own problem and they didn't had money to set up a army, French were not willing to stop, instead they set up Maginot Line. series of Heavy armed concrete fort. Italy was close to take action, when German attacked Austria intension for taking over, Italian leader Mussolini placed a Army in between to countries.
 * 1935, When German Publicly announced the compulsory Army, no powers interfered itm insted France, Italy and Britain set **Stresa Front** to protest aginst Hitler.
 * 1935, the new era for peace was having hard time with Manchuria and German.

Summary

The league of Nation have purpose to set the World with the purpose of World Peace, but it faced problem from Great Depression and the movement of German have tainted the purpose. Also in Asia they lose one of their supporter's Japan to the war.

Question


 * 1) What were the action of the League of Nation when one country start a dispute?
 * 2) Why didn't any country react against German?
 * 3) What had foreshadow when Japan and German have withdrew from the League of Nation?
 * 4) What impact did Great Depression contributed to the limitation of League of Nation?
 * 5) Why does German's vote Adolf Hitler extreme Right?

Awesomeness

The picture shows the Adolf Hitler as he was voted a a official leader of the German.And he started the re-arment and withdrawing from League of Nation. This is the picture of the Manchukuo, where Japan have set as a state for the prpose of raw materials. Eventually it lead to the Sino- Japanese war The connection is mentioned in one of the box