events leading up to ww2

mussolini invades ethiopia

Mar 30, 1935

Both Italy and Ethiopia were member nations and yet the League was unable to control Italy or to protect Ethiopia when Italy clearly violated the League's own Article X

formation of rome-berlin Axis

Oct 25, 1936

Coalition formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany. An agreement formulated by italys foriegn minister.

hitler demands the sudetenland

Sep 30, 1938

Many British people supported Chamberlain at the time and before the meetings took place no-one would have known what it would be like negotiating with Hitler. It seemed right that a negotiated settlement should be tried and the attempts to succeed started in September 1938.

hitler invades poland

Sep 1, 1939

german forces banbarded poland while hitler seeks to gain lost territory and rule poland and after that ww2 began.

japanese attack at pearl harbor

Dec 7, 1941

President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans.