The Closed Door

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Background to the German Crisis from the Speech by Von Papen, German Chancellor, to the Lausanne Conference of 16 June-9 July 1932

Benito Mussolini, "What is Fascism" (1932)

FDR's Address Before the Pan American Union, April 12, 1933

Letter from Joseph C. Grew, Ambassador to Japan, to Cordell Hull, May 11, 1933

The Nye Commission Report (February 24, 1936)

Appeal of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, to the League of Nations (1936)

The Nanking Massacre (1937)

Neville Chamberlain, "Peace in Our Time" Speech Given in Defense of the Munich Agreement, 1938

The Italo-German Alliance, May 22, 1939