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Japanese invasion of 1937
What Happened: Military conflict fought primarily between the republic of china and the empire of japan from 1937-1945
Why it happened: the war was the result of a decades long japanese imperalist policy aimed at expanding its influence politically and military in order to secure access to raw material reserves and other economic resources.
The effects/impact of the event: Security Hull issued a statement of fundamental principles of international policy -
Germanys invasion of poland 1939
what happend: At 4:45am some 1.5 million german troops invaded poland all along its 1,750 mile border with german controlled territory
why it happened: the german Luftwaffe bombed polish airfields and german warships and u-boats attacked polish naval forces in the baltic sea hitler cliamed the massive invasion was a defensive action.
the effects/impact of the event: germany had to sign a nonaggression pact with the soviet union on august 23,1939 the enemies agreed to divide poland between them
