Aggression in Europe and Asia

Japan Invades Manchuria

Sep 25, 1931

When the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria because of chinas presence.

Italy attack Ethiopia

Oct 25, 1935

an armed conflict that resulted in Ethiopia’s subjection to Italian rule. They are invading forces steadily pushed back the ill-armed and poorly trained Ethiopian army, winning a major victory near Lake Ascianghi on April 9, 1936

Germany Occupies Rhineland

Mar 25, 1936

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany.

Japan invades China

Jul 25, 1937

When the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state

Germany annexes Austria

Mar 25, 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.

Germany Takes Sudeteland

Sep 25, 1938

Adolph Hitler and the armies of Nazi Germany crossed into the Sudetenland, which at the time was a western region of the state of Czechoslovakia.

Germany seizes Czechoslovakia

Mar 25, 1939

Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, signed the Munich Pact, which sealed the fate of Czechoslovakia, and handing it over to Germany in the name of peace

Italy conquers Albania

Apr 25, 1939

A military campaign by Italy against the Albanian Kingdom. The conflict was a result of the imperialist policies of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Albania was rapidly overrun