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German Foreign policy and Ambitions: 1933-1939

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Japans Ambition in the Asia Pacific:

1905-1930 was an incredibly politically convoluted time and by 1932, the military cabinet becomes in charge of the government ⇒ Hyper militarism frames the proceeding period .

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Compare the ambitions of Japan and German

Similarities:

• Both are dissatisfied with the territorial settlements at the Paris peace conference.
• Desire to secure land for resource both agricultural and mineral. For japan it was to become richer/out of poverty and German wanted lebensraum.
• Use of military force to execute terirotial expansion
• Motivated by the ideologies of ethic superiority.