Events Leading up to WWII

By Joebarbier2017

  • Mussolini invades ethiopia

    Mussolini invades ethiopia
    Benito Mussolini, the Facist leader of Italy, inherrited Hitlers plans to expands German territories by aquiring all territories they considered German.

  • Formation of Rome-Berlin Axis

    Formation of Rome-Berlin Axis
    An agrreement formulated by Italy's forgein minister Galeazzo Ciano informally linking the two facist countries.

  • Hitler demands the Sudetenland

    Hitler demands the Sudetenland
    Hitler demanded that the sudetenland should be handed over to Germany and in Bertesgaden because 3,200,000 Germans live there.

  • Hitler invades Poland

    Hitler invades Poland
    German forces bombarded poland while Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and rule Poland, World War II had begun.

  • Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor

    Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor
    Japanese planes attacked American naval base at pearl Harbor, the Japanese destroyed nearly 20 naval vessals and more than 2,000 American soldiers. Franklin D Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan.