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1922
Japan signs treaty with Cina to respect China's borders -
1928
Japan signs Kellog-Braind Pact renouncing war -
1929
Great depression -
1931
Japanese army seized Manchuria -
1933
Japan withdraws from League Of Nations -
1935
Hitler announces Germany will not obey Treaty Of Versailles -
1935
U.S. begins passing the Neutrality Acts -
1935
Mussoliniordered a massive invasion of Ethiopia -
1936
German troops moved to Rhineland -
1936
Spanish civil war begins -
1936
Italy and Germany make an alliance -
1936
Germany made an agreement and the axis powers are formed -
1937
Japan invades China; full-scale war between Japan and China -
1938
Germany annexes Austria -
1938
Germany takes Sudetenland -
1938
Munich Conference -
1939
Germany invades Czechoslovakia -
1939
Italy invades Albania -
1939
Leaders signed a nonaggression Pact -
1939
Stalin and Hitler sign a nonaggression Pact -
1939
Germany takes Czechosiovakia -
1939
Hitler quickly moved ahead with plans to conquer poland -
1939
France and Great britain declared war on Germany -
1939
Soviet union invades eastern Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland. -
1940
Stalon forced finns to surrender -
1940
Germany suprise invation of denmark. -
1940
Germany invades Netherland, Belgium, and Luxembourg -
1940
Paris had fallen to the Germans -
1940
France surrenders -
1940
Germany Luftwaffe begins bombing of british cities (Battle of Britain) -
1940
Germany focuses on london to break British Moral -
1941
Hitler sends Rommel to help Italian troops in Egypt -
1941
Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece -
1941
Hitler invades Soviet Union -
1941
Germany u-boats attack U.S. destroyer -
1941
German forces put Leningrad under seige -
1941
Germans try to take Moscow