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1931
japan invades Manchuria beginning hostilities in the far east -
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1935 - 1936
Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia. -
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1936
Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement. -
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1937
Japan invades China -
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1938
Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss. -
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1939
Warsaw surrenders on September 27. The Polish government flees into exile via Romania. Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them.