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Hyperflation in Germany
For the large costs of the ongoing First World War, Germany suspended the gold standard when the war broke. They were making money to pay off their debt from the First World War.
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Hitler writes Mein Kampf
On this day in 1925, Volume One of Adolf Hitler’s autobiography, Mein Kampf, is published. It was a blueprint of his agenda for a Third Reich and a clear exposition of the nightmare that will envelope Europe from 1939 to 1945. The book sold a total of 9,473 copies in its first year. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l543SiQPdlI -
U.S. Passes Neutrality Acts
The United States Government enacted a series of laws designed to prevent the United States from being embroiled in a foreign war by clearing stating the terms in the Neutrality acts. -
The Manchurian Incident
Seizure of the Manchurian city of Mukden by Japanese troops. Which was followed by the Japanese invasion of all Manchuria https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LL2DG2gVL2A (graphic) -
Japan invaded eastern China
In 1931, Japan, eager for the vast natural resources to be found in China and seeing her obvious weakness, invaded and occupied Manchuria. It was turned into a nominally independent state called Manchukuo, -
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Hitler becomes Chancellor, Hitler becomes President
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Japan withdraws from League of Nations
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Italy invades Ethiopia
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The Spanish Civil War
Military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country. When an initial military coup failed to win control of the entire country, a bloody civil war ensued, fought on both sides. -
Anschluss
Germany annexes Austria in 1938. The rise of a pro-Nazi right-wing party within Austria in the mid-1930s paved the way for Hitler to make his move, he wanted to have control because he himself was Austrian -
Germany annexes Sudetenland
The Sudetenland dominated German population, and was incorporated into Czechoslovakia when that new nation’s frontiers were drawn in 1918–19. Because of its German majority, the Sudetenland later became a major source of contention between Germany and Czechoslovakia, and in 1938 participants at the Munich Conference, yielding to Adolf Hitler, transferred it to Germany. -
Munich Conference
Settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wKA-lhWFbsE -
Kristallnacht
A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich and continued into the next day, has come to be known as Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass. -
Nazis take Czechoslovakia
During a meeting with Czech President Emil Hacha, Hitler threatened a bombing raid against Prague, the Czech capital, unless he obtained from Hacha free passage for German troops into Czech borders. He got it. That same day, German troops went into Bohemia and Moravia. The two provinces Did not resist and they were quickly made a protectorate of Germany. By evening, Hitler made a triumphant entry into Prague. -
Germany Invades Poland
German forces led by Hitler bombard Poland on land and from the air. Hitlers wants to regain his lost territitory and rule Poland, World War II has begun. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history/videos/germany-invades-poland -
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis formed
In Berlin, Germany, officials from Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan sign a military alliance. The pact sealed cooperation among the three nations in waging World War II.
