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Japan attacks Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 19 September 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. After the war, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo. -
Japan leaves League of Nations
The Japanese delegation, defying world opinion, withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly today after the assembly had adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria -
Germany Leaves League of Nations
American President Woodrow Wilson intended the League of Nations to be primary body of a new style of international relations based on the cooperation of all nations of the world -
US Neutrality Acts Signed
The Neutrality Acts were laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars. They were based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies -
Japan attacks China
he Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from July 7, 1937, to September 2, 1945. It began with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937 in which a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops escalated into a battle -
Germany takes over Austria
German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.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. -
Munich Peace Conference Begins
he agreement permitting Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland was signed on Sept 29, 1938. ... Hitler had previously started rearming Germany in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles, reoccupied the Rhineland in 1936 and annexed Austria in 1938. -
Germany takes over Czechoslovakia
On this day Hitler's forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia- a nation sacrificed on the alter of the Munich Pact, which was a vain attempt to prevent Germany's imperial aims. -
Non-Aggression Pact between Germany and Soviet Union
shortly before World War II broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. -
Germany invades Poland
On this day in 1939, German forces bombed Poland on land and from the air , as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland -
France falls to the Germans
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War. -
Battle of Britain Begins
On this day in 1940, the Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which will last three and a half months, begins