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1922
Japan signs an international treaty agreeing to repsect China's borders. photo- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_leaders_of_World_War_II#Empire_of_Japan -
1931
Japan invades a region of China called Manchuria, which the League Of Nations protested in an attempt to stop Japan's aggression and preserve preace. Two years later, in 1933, Japan withdraws from the League Of Nations. -
1935
The United States passes laws known as 'Neutrality Acts,' to ban loans and the sale of arms to nations at war. The United States wanted to prevent becoming involved in another war since they were in the middle of an economic depression and war would make economic matters worse. photo- https://www.haikudeck.com/roman-berlin-axis-uncategorized-presentation-D6wIFAxVUR -
March 1935
Germany announces that it will ignore the restrictions implemented by the Treaty Of Versailles. The League Of Nation's failure to stop German aggression convinced Hitler to take even more risks. photo- http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/honsem/theses/mkravetz03/mkravetz035hitler.htm -
October 1935
Italian leader Mussolini commands an invasion of Ethiopia. Ethiopians did not have enough military population, training, or modernized weapons to beat the Italians. photo- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/AO-Etiopia-1936-A-artiglieria-nel-Tembien.jpg -
March 1936
Hitler ignores the restriction on invading the Rhineland put in place by the Treaty Of Versailles, and leads his troops into the Rhineland. Other countries noticed German aggression and were unwilling to risk war because of their economic problems. France and Britain aggreed to follow a policy of 'appeasement,' in which they allow the aggresor, Germany, to continuously invade more geographical regions in attempt to prevent becoming involved in war. -
July 1936
Spanish army leaders and the General Francisco Franco led a revolt in Spain which led to a 3-year-long civil war in Spain. During this war, Mussolini and Hitler both send aid to troops in Spain. photo- http://www.biography.com/people/francisco-franco-9300766#synopsis -
November 1936
Germany, Italy jand japan oin together as allies and call themselves the 'Axis Powers'. photo- http://khanghi.deviantart.com/art/The-Axis-Powers-359495435 -
March 1938
Hitler ignores the ban on the anschluss of Austria and Germany as prohibited by the Treaty Of Versailles and Hitler annexes Austria. photo- https://germanpostalhistory.com/php/viewitem.php?itemid=57994&germany%20cover=search&#itempic0 -
September 1938
Hitler demands to be given possesion of Sudetenland and is refused. This sparks the Munich Conference in which Brritain, France, Germany, and Italy sent representatives and agreed to give Hitler the Sudetenland if he respected the new borders of Czechoslovakia. photo- http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/worldwarii/p/World-War-Ii-Munich-Agreement.htm -
April 1939
Mussolini orders Italy to seize Albania and use it as a base to invade Greece. -
August 1939
Germany signs a non-agression pact with Russia. photo- http://mkaumeyer.weebly.com/nazi-soviet-non-aggression-pact.html -
September 1939
Hitler surprise attacks Poland in an attempt to conquer it. This event is known as the 'straw that broke the camel's back,' meaning that Germany had now gone too far and the other countries could not abide by their policy of appeasement for any longer. France and Britain were afraid that the Nazi Regime could take over the world, so they became involved to stop them. The invasion of Poland is what initiated World War II. photo- http://historyimages.blogspot.com/2009/12/germany-invades-poland-sep -
December 7, 1941
Japan sends naval and air forces to attack Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. photo- http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/09/national/history/historian-seeks-to-clear-embassy-of-pearl-harbor-sneak-attack-infamy/
