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What Was The Role Of Germany's Military Alliance In The Late 1930s
In the late 1930’s, The U.S was nearing its final years of it great Depression. Beside America Great depression, Europe was facing its own Great depression. Many of the countries in Europe were trying to bounce back from the First World War. Of the countries that were hit the hardest was Germany due to their influence in starting the first World War. In Italy, Benito Mussolini wanted to restore economic prosperity to Italy by expanding it territory in the south. Over in the Asian Pacific theater area, Japan was invading Manchuria for raw material and was attacking China to expand its territory. In 1937 Italy and Germany signed a Rome and Berlin axis to establish a military alliance, in 1940 Japan join the pact. Although the pact provided for mutual assistance should any country suffer attack by any nation not already involved in the war, the United States and its other allies saw this alliance as superior countries helping each other out to expand their territory.
Japan became aggressive for a few reasons. Japan was dependent of American resources, which made up of tin, oil, rubber, iron, and natural raw material. They wanted to invade neighboring countries such as, China,
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Germans were unpleasant with the Versailles Treaty. They felt the treaty really treated them unfairly. With the economic depression that resulted in part because of the heavy reparations they had to pay to the Allies. Germany was looking for way to restore to it strong economic status. Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. German people choose Hitler due to, during the treaty of Versailles, Germans were poor, majority of people were un-employ and basic necessity and food was expensive. Under Hitler control, he began secretly restoring a German army and building warship and establishing a German Air Force. By late‘s Germany began invading Rhineland, signing Pacts with Italy and Japan, invading country as far as

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