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Landon Faraoni's Chapter 24 Timeline
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Manchurian Incident
An event when Japanese soldiers said that the Chinese attempted to blow up a railway in Japan, so then Japan attacked Manchuria and took over it all even after the Chinese soldiers left. -
Mussolini (Italy) conquers Ethiopia
Italian troops pushed back the weak Ethiopian army, defeating them near Lake Ascianghi on April 9, 1936. Then the next month on May 5, 1936 they took over Ethiopias capital. Dictator Mussolini then made Italy's king emperor of Ethiopia. -
Britain's Neville Champerlain and Hitler meet at the Munich Conference
Nevillle Chamberlain and Hitler meet at Hitler's house. Hitler threatens to try to take over the Czech if Britain doesn't support Germany's plan to over take the Sudetenland. -
General Francisco Franco's Nationalist forces take control of Madrid (Spain), where he rules until his death in 1975.
Francisco Franco took over Madrid then ended the war a few days later and was the dictator of the country. He then ruled until 1975 when he died. He died November 22 of 1975 of heart failure. -
• Hitler (Germany) invades Poland, beginning WWII.
It took Hitler and his Nazis less than a month to overun Poland. He used the newly adopted technique of "blitzkrieg" or lightning war to accomplish this task. It is a three pronged attack with planes bombing first, followed by tanks and artillery, next, and finally ground troops attack.
