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Japan Invades Manchuria
Japan claimed that Chinese soilders had sabotaged the railway, and attacked the Chinese army. The Chinese didnt fight back because they that thne Japanese were just wanting an excuse to invade Manchuria. -
Japan invades China
Was a conflict between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan, before official hostilities of the Second Sino-Japanese War commenced in 1937. Japan had acquired the vast northeastern region of China and would eventually establish the puppet government of Manchukuo. However, the Japanese military planned to increase Japanese influence further, especially into Shanghai where Japan, along with the various western powers, had extraterritorial concessions. -
Italy attacks Ethiopia
Italy aims for attacking Ethiopia because the wanted to boost Italian national prestige. The Italian national prestige was woounded by Ethiopia's defeat of Italian for at the Battle of Adowa in the 19th century. -
Germany occupies Rhineland
On March 1936 denounced the Locarno Pact and began remilitarizing of the Rhineland. Two years later, Nazi Germany burst out of its territories, absorbing Austria and portions of Czechoslovakia. In 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, leading to the outbreak of World War II in Europe. -
Germany annexes Austria
German troops marched in Austria. Hitler annouced his Anschluss, and plebiscite was rigged or the resulting vote simply a testament to Austrian terror at Hitler's determintion. Fuhrer garnered a whopping 97.7 percent approval for the unoin of Germany and Autria. -
Germany takes Sudetenland
German nationalist party in the Sudetenland used radical demands, with the backing of the Reich, to force the Czechoslovakian government into action. Chamberlain and Hitler met and agreed to the cession of the Sudetenland to Germany. Hitler was not content with this and demanded the territories be put under German military occupation, so that Czechoslovakia would be given no time to protect itself. -
: Germany seizes Czechoslovakia
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. during a meeting with Czech President Emil Hacha–a man considered weak, and possibly even senile–Hitler threatened a bombing raid against Prague, the Czech capital, unless he obtained from Hacha free passage for German troops into Czech borders. He got it. -
Italy conquers Albania
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. -
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Berlin Walls Falls
The Berlin Wall was actually two walls. More than 100 people died while they tried crossing the wall. More than 5000 escaped by going over and under the Berlin Wall.
