What territories did Japan and Italy seize when, in the 30s, the redistribution of colonial possessions
What territories did Japan and Italy seize when, in the 30s, the redistribution of colonial possessions and spheres of influence began?
Since 1931, Japan began expansion in northeastern China, where the Japanese created the puppet state of Manchukuo, headed by the former emperor of the Qing dynasty, Pu Yi.
Since 1937, they began to expand in southern China, including staged a massacre in the capital – Nanjing.
Their troops were in China until August 1945.
Italy in 1935 started a war with Ethiopia. It was a kind of revenge for the defeat of 1896.
By May 1936, they seized the country, the emperor left it, and a partisan movement unfolded in the occupied territory. The Ethiopian army was rather weak (50 thousand soldiers, several tanks and aircraft, almost without gas masks and radio communications).