1. Warfare in Guernica, Shanghai, and Ethiopia in the 1930’s Gina Settimio Haley Gerritsen Shannon Smith
2. Guernica Was a center of great significance to the Basque people before and after the air raid which made it notorious On April 26th 1937 German Luftwaffe planes raided the town of Guernica Operation Rugen -The raid was made by planes of the German Luftwaffe on April 26, 1937. -This aerial attack on the city of Basque caused destruction and about 1654 deaths and about 400 were civilians -Guernica was used as a test to see what it would take to bomb a city into oblivion. The bombing shattered the city's defenders' will to resist, allowing the Nationalists to overrun it. They faced little resistance and took complete control of the town by April 29. The attacks destroyed the majority of Guernica. Three quarters of the city's buildings were reported completely destroyed, and most others sustained damage
3. Shanghai Japanese Navy bombed it in 1932 to crush Chinese student protests against Manchurian Incident and subsequent Japanese occupation, ended in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Manchurian Incident: a section of railroad owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway was dynamited. The Imperial Japanese Army, accusing Chinese dissidents of the act, responded with the invasion of Manchuria, leading to the establishment of Manchukuo the following year. While the responsibility for this act of sabotage remains a subject of controversy, the prevailing view is that Japanese militarists staged the explosion in order to provide a pretext for war. Center for European refugees Only city in the world that was open unconditionally to Jews Japanese air force bombarded Shanghai in order to protect Japanese residents from anti Japanese movements.
4. Ethiopia Ethiopia, then known as Abyssinia, was the only country in Africa which was not a part of the Empire of a European Power. It was bordered by Italian Somaliland (now Eritrea) & Benito Mussolini, Il Duce, the fascist leader of Italy was keen on enlarging Italys' Empire. The ruler of Ethiopia was HailleSelassie. The British had a strategy of preventing Italian forces from attacking or occupying neighboring British possessions, while at the same time pressing northward from East Africa through Italian Somaliland and eastern Ethiopia to isolate Italian troops in the highlands. This thrust was directed at the Harer and Dire Dawa area, with the objective of cutting the rail link between Addis Ababa and Djibouti. At the same time, British troops from Sudan went through Eritrea to cut off Italian forces from the Red Sea. The campaign in the north ended in February and March of 1941 with the Battle of Keren and the defeat of Italian troops in Eritrea. By March 3, Italian Somaliland had fallen to British forces, and then the Italian governor surrendered the remaining Italian forces
5. Summary: WWII World War II, or the Second World Warwas a global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945 which involved most of the world's nations, including all of the great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million military personnel mobilized. In a state of "total war," the major participants placed their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by significant action against civilians, including the Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare, it was the deadliest conflict in human history,with over seventy million casualties.
