Aggression in Europe and Asia

  • Japan Invades Manchuria

    Japan Invades Manchuria
    The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II.
  • Italy attacks Ethiopia

    Italy attacks Ethiopia
    WW2: Italy invades Ethiopia. Thursday, 3 October 1935. In 1935, the League of Nations was faced with another crucial test. Benito Mussolini, the Fascist leader of Italy, had adopted Adolf Hitler's plans to expand German territories by acquiring all territories it considered German.
  • Germany occupies Rhineland

     Germany occupies Rhineland
    The remilitarization of the Rhineland by the German Army took place on 7 March 1936 when German military forces entered the Rhineland.
  • Japan invades China

    Japan invades China
    The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II.
  • Germany annexes Austria

     Germany annexes Austria
    On March 12, 1938, German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.
  • Germany takes Sudetenland

    Germany takes Sudetenland
    The Sudetenland (Czech and Slovak: Sudety, Polish: Kraj Sudetów) is the German name (used in English in the first half of the 20th century) to refer to those northern, southwest, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by German speakers, specifically the border districts of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts of Silesia located within Czechoslovakia.
  • Germany seizes Czechoslovakia

    Germany seizes Czechoslovakia
    The German occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945) began with the Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions, known collectively as the Sudetenland, under terms outlined by the Munich Agreement. German leader Adolf Hitler's pretext for this effort was the alleged privations suffered by the ethnic German population living in those regions.[weasel words] New and extensive Czechoslovak border fortifications were also located in the same area.
  • Italy conquers Albania

     Italy conquers Albania
    The Italian invasion of Albania (April 7 – April 12, 1939) was a brief military campaign by the Kingdom of Italy against the Albanian Kingdom. The conflict was a result of the imperialist policies of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Albania was rapidly overrun, its ruler, King Zog I, forced into exile, and the country made part of the Italian Empire as a separate kingdom in personal union with the Italian crown.