Matthew+R



On October 3, 1935 Italy attacked Ethiopia without a declaration of war. Days later the League of Nations declared Italy an aggressor, but no actions against Italy. Italian troops held back until a couple of months of that year. There was a incident in a city in Italy. Gave them much needed excuse to attack Ethiopia. Japanese Expansion they expanded most in China. They took land from other places but China was the most useful. Japans major weakness was lack of natural resource thats the reason the took over other countries.

1933 Hitler incharge builds military, stops payments to France & Great Britain. 1936 Hitler remilitarize the Rhineland. 1938 Annexes Austria & Sedetenland. 1939 controls Czechoslovakia. Let Hitler have what wants to avoid war.

The Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project began in 1939, it employed more than 130,000 workers that cost 2 //billion// U.S dollars (equals 24 billion dollas as of 2012). The secret place were Americans were building the Atomic Bombs. The first Atomic Bomb exploded over Hiroshima, Japan August 6,1945. The second bomb exploded over Nagasaki, Japan August 9,1945. The Manhattan project was good and bad for humanity. Good because people trying to kill us we killin back. Bad thing was the killing but the most was the chemicals in the bomb. THE ITEMS THAT WERE RATIONED:tires, cars, bicycles, gasoline, fuel & kerosene solid fuel, stoves, rubber footwear, shoes, sugar, coffee. They were rationed because they were using the materials for the war. The people were not really mad because they were barely getting out of the depression so they were use to things getting rationed.