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Japan Invades Manchuria
In the 1930s, the Japanese were trying to extend their empire. In September 1931, they claimed that Chinese soldiers had sabotaged the railway, and attacked the Chinese army. The Chinese army did not fight back because it knew that the Japanese were just wanting an excuse to invade Manchuria. -
Italy attacks Ethiopia
Italy won this battle against Ethiopia. This war showed weaknesses of the League Of Nations. -
Germany occupies Rhineland
Hilter violated the Treaty of Verallies. He invaded Austria and portions of Czechoslovakia. -
Japan Invades China
In the 1930s, China was a divided country. In 1927 Chiang Kai-Shek had formed a Nationalist Government – the Kuomintang, but his dictatorial regime was opposed by Mao Tse Tung’s Communists. Civil war between the Communists and Nationalists erupted in 1930 the period of Mao’s legendary ‘Long March’. -
Germany annexes Austria
In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany. Austrian Chancellor Kurt, learning of the conspiracy, met with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in the hopes of reasserting his country’s independence but was instead bullied into naming several top Austrian Nazis to his cabinet. -
Germany takes Sudetenland
In the early hours of Sept. 30, 1938, leaders of Nazi Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy signed an agreement that allowed the Nazis to annex the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia that was home to many ethnic Germans. -
Germany seizes Czechoslovakia
Hitler didnt think the treaty was fair. He started to take over then land around him and somhow took over Czechoslovakia. -
italy concers albina
Deciding that Adolf Hitler had been upstaging him, Benito Mussolini decided it was time to launch another invasion to put Italy in the news. Despite King Vittorio Emanuele III's objections, Mussolini used King Zog's oppression of fascists in Albania as an excuse for aggression.
