When the Japanese army invaded China, on the surface, European and American countries condemned Japan, but in fact?

The Japanese are an island country with a lack of capital, and the consumption of oil, steel, rubber and other materials in modern warfare is staggering!

The main strategic materials for the Japanese invasion of China need to be provided by Europe and the United States!

Nothing else, just driven by interests!

As for what the life and death of the Chinese have to do with them, it takes no effort to shout two voices, and they have earned a reputation for justice. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the Japanese army stepped into the Indochina Peninsula.

The United States and France were allies in World War I, and when France's colonies were invaded, the United States naturally had to speak out and condemn the aggression of the Japanese government.

However, it is only a condemnation, and the Americans need orders from the Japanese.

The Japanese and Japanese wars of aggression required a large amount of strategic resources, and a large number of orders fell into the hands of the Americans.

After all, the oil, steel, rubber and other materials owned by the Japanese were very limited.

Among the major powers, Japan has the least steel and ammunition, for example, the steel output is 2 million tons, which is less than 1/10 of Germany. At that time, Japan's main source of steel was steel and scrap iron imported from the United States.

What about China? These steel productions were also very limited at the time!

If the war of aggression between Japan and Japan is to continue for a long time, it must win the support of the United States and Europe.

If Europe and the United States cut off these material support to the Japanese and Japanese, then the Japanese and Japanese will not be able to carry out a war of aggression for a long time!

There are only interests between countries, and there is no morality.

Some are only eternal interests, and there are no eternal friends and enemies.

Historically, the victorious countries after World War II, in order to beautify their image, always intentionally or unintentionally proved to people that World War II was a war between good and evil.

But in reality?

But it is nothing more than a war between several major powers to carve up the world and redistribute benefits.

This is no different from the First World War at all!

Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union were not symbols of justice, they were just colonies. In the final analysis, there is no difference between Britain, France, and the United States and Germany, Italy, and Japan!

The origin of World War II is because the power of these powerful countries has changed!

Britain and France were weakened, but they held the largest share of the world's colonies.

The German and Japanese forces grew, but the number of colonies they occupied was apparently small.

So, they began to fight for interests!

From the bottom of their bones, their attitude towards the weak countries of the world is the same.

All in all, it's nothing more than taking more colonies, nothing more than controlling more countries.

It's all just limited by strength!

No one needs to say anyone, everyone is just the difference between a grass donkey and a donkey!

If they really oppose the war of aggression waged by the Japanese and Japanese, there is no need to send troops at all, and as long as they do not provide the Japanese with oil, steel, rubber, and other strategic materials, then the Japanese will naturally not be able to continue to expand the war.

Because in modern warfare, without a steady stream of oil, rubber, and steel, it cannot continue for a long time.

And as a resource-poor island nation (the occupied area was also very lacking in these strategic materials at that time), he simply could not carry out a protracted modern war!

It is a pity that until now, the United States is still providing these strategic materials to the Japanese and Japanese!

This is where the interests lie, and the United States does not need to interrupt trade with Japan because of aggression against other countries.

Of course, the Americans have not yet been aware of the conspiracy of the Japanese and Japanese, and the invasion of the Southeast Peninsula is only the beginning of the occupation of Southeast Asia, and the next step will be to seize more British and American colonies, including the American colony of the Philippines.

As long as the pace of war does not stop, the US economy will get better and better until it comes out of the Great Depression.

What the Americans didn't know was that the Japanese had already had a battle plan and decided to concentrate their forces and go all out to destroy the US Pacific sea forces!

The bayonets of the Japanese had already opened the buttons of the corsets of the French, but now that the French could no longer take care of the colonies of Indochina in the far east, the most important thing at this time was to hold the most important line of defense with their belts.

Because, the news on the European continent is urgent, and the Germans have already pocketed Austria.

Of course, yelling is inevitable, and being insulted by the Japanese people, if you don't shout twice, it's not like that.

The French protested against Japan to no avail, and then declared war, vowing to take revenge on the Japanese.

The Japanese ignored the protests of the French people and continued to go their own way, and soon annexed Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

Shouting is a fart, and you have the ability to play really.

Even if there is no threat from the Germans, the distance from Europe to the distant Indochina Peninsula is too far, and when their army comes, the cucumber dishes will be cold.

Since the war in Spain, Italy is on the move, and Germany is sharpening its knives and will also speed up the pace of the war, in this situation, it is strange that France will send troops to the far east to fight the Japanese army!

Following Italy's annexation of Ethiopia and the re-entry of German troops into the Rhine Demilitarized Zone, Germany and Italy joined the Franco rebels in an open attack on the Spanish Republic at the end of July 1936.

This act of armed intervention, which is in flagrant violation of international law, has been connived at by Britain and France.

In 1937, Hitler decided that the time was ripe for a definitive solution to the Austrian question.

On 5 November, he convened an important secret meeting between the Minister of Operations, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Commander-in-Chief of the three services.

The meeting was recorded by Colonel Hossbach, Hitler's military aide-de-camp, and a memorandum was compiled after the meeting, commonly known as the Hossbach Memo.

According to the memorandum, Hitler believed that the future of Germany depended entirely on how to solve the needs of living space. To solve the living space, we must first develop to Europe, not to look for colonies overseas.

Germany's first objective should be the seizure of Czechoslovakia and Austria, which could not be done without the use of force.

So, will the great powers intervene?

Hitler estimated that Britain would not participate in the war against Germany in the face of difficulties, and that without Britain's support, France would not have been able to take military action against Germany. In short, Hitler had made up his mind to annex Austria and Czechoslovakia.

Under German compulsion, Schüschnitge held talks with Hitler in Berchtesgaden on 12 February 1938.

In the morning, Hitler and Schuschnigg had a two-hour meeting alone, and Hitler condemned and threatened Schuschnigg in an extremely rude manner, and even insulted Schuschnigg as a "traitor to Austrian politics."

After lunch, German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop handed over a typewriter-typed draft of the German-Austrian Protocol to Schuschnigg, saying that the request was final and should not be discussed.

Hitler then summoned Schuschnigg again and said: "You must fulfill these demands I have made of you within three days, or else I will give the order for a march on Austria." Under duress, Schuschnigg signed.

The German-Austrian Protocol stipulates that the Austrian Government shall at any time exchange views with Germany on foreign policy questions of common interest to the two countries and support it morally, diplomatically and in publications for Germany's wishes and actions; appointment of Seth Inquart as Austrian Minister of Security; lifting of the ban on the activities of the Austrian Democratic Socialist Party; amnesty for all Austrian Socialists punished by the courts and the police; systematically exchange officers 100 people; The general staffs of the two countries hold regular meetings, and so on.

As required by the Protocol, Austria would effectively lose its independence.

After returning home on the 13th, Schuschnigg immediately met with President Miklas.

In order to force Austria to give a clear and binding reply within three days, Hitler ordered the Germans to conduct a mock military operation on the German-Austrian border.

At a critical juncture of the country's life and death, when foreign aid from Italy, France, and Britain could no longer be counted, Schuschnigg intended to use a referendum to decide the future of the country.

On 9 March, he announced that a referendum would be held on 13 March, and it would be up to the Austrian people to decide whether or not to favour a free, independent, social, Christian and united Austria.

Hitler was furious when he heard the news and decided to use force to solve the problem.

On 11 March, he issued Directive No. 1 of the military programme of operations, codenamed "Otto", ordering the German Army and Air Force to be ready for an invasion on 12 March 1938, no later than 12 o'clock.

On the night of March 11, Miklas finally gave in and appointed Seth Inquart to form a cabinet.

In the early hours of March 12, German troops marched into Austria, and on March 13, Hitler and Seiss-Inquart signed the Law on the Reunification of Austria and Germany, and independent Austria perished.

If Germany realizes its plan to annex Austria, its strength will inevitably increase greatly, and this will pose a great threat to France's security.

However, the struggle between the left and right factions in France in this era was extremely fierce, the political situation was unstable, the cabinet changed frequently, and even several governments were rotated in a month, so they were no longer able to adopt a tough policy towards Germany, and they had no choice but to embark on the road of appeasement.

On November 8, 1937, the French Minister of Finance, Bonet, later as Minister of Foreign Affairs, told the German Ambassador to Austria Papen, who was passing through Paris: France had no objection to the establishment of closer economic and cultural ties between the two countries after the signing of the German-Austrian Agreement in July 1936, and agreed that the German minorities in Czechoslovakia should enjoy broad autonomy.

Later, French Chancellor Chauden met with Papen and said that he himself "had no objection to the obvious expansion of Germany's influence in Austria by evolutionary means."

Britain has always sought a comprehensive settlement of its contradictions with Germany, and in the "general settlement," Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland were all bargaining chips.

On November 19, 1937, British Privy Counsellor Halifax met with Hitler at Berchtesgaden and made it clear that "the error of the mandatory treaty of Versailles must be corrected" and that the question of a change in the European order, namely Danzig, Austria and Czechoslovakia, would sooner or later take place, and that Britain was only concerned that "these changes must be made through peaceful evolution".

Hitler got to the bottom of Britain and France, and knew that they would not interfere with Germany's annexation of Austria, so he let it go and did it boldly. The next target was the Czech Republic, and then the Second World War......