Path to WW2

By IBHistToast

  • Locarno Conference

    1. Germany respects Belgian and French borders
    2. Germany admitted to League of Nations
    3. Demilitarization of the Rhineland
    4. France looks for allies

  • Kellogg-Briand Pact

    Outlawed wars

  • Mukden Incident

    Japanese take Manchuria

  • Hitler becomes German chancellor

  • Night of the Long Knives

    Hitler purges government, takes control of the Army.

  • Great Purge

    Stalin kills millions in purges

  • Mussolini invades Ethiopia

    No measures were taken to stop Italy.

  • Germany Re-militarizes the Rhineland

    France doesn't resist the move.

  • Rome-Berlin Axis Formed

  • Anticomintern Pact

    Germany and Japan are anti-Soviet.
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    Spanish Civil War

    Soviets back government, everyone else backs Franco. Franco wins, sets up fascist state
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    Stalin purges military

    Leads to disorginization.

  • Marco Polo Bridge Incident

    Japanese Army invades China.

  • Hossbach Conference

    Hitler outlines plan for Eastern expansion, replaces military officials.

  • Panay Incident

    Japanese aircraft sink the U.S.S. Panay in China

  • Anschluss

    Germany and Austria unite.

  • Munich Agreement

    Britain and France agree to give Germany the Sudetenland
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    Phony War

    Germans take time to refine their plans.

  • Germany takes Moravia, Bohemia, and Slovakia

  • Britain guarantees Polish safety

  • Mussolini takes Albania

  • Battle of Khalkin Gol

    Russians defeat invading Japanese forces.

  • Pact of Steel

    Hitler informs generals of plans to attack Poland.

  • Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact

    Two powers agree to stay out of war, allows Germany to take Poland.

  • Germany invades Poland

  • Stalin invades Finland

  • Blitzkrieg

    Germany invades Norway and Denmark.

  • WInston Churchill becomes PM

    Began to shift British foriegn policy

  • Germany invades Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France

  • Destroyers for Bases

    FDR gives Destroyers for British land for bases.

  • Churchill's "Fight on the Beaches" Speech

    Commits to war with Germany
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    Battle of Britain

    Air battles between Germany and Britain over Britain.

  • Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

    Links Atlantic and Pacific wars

  • Mussolini invades Greece

  • FDR elected for a 3rd term

  • Lend-Lease Act

    U.S. gives Britain armaments.

  • U.S. occupies Greenland

    Gives closer airbases

  • Hitler invades Yugoslavia and Greece

  • Russo-Japanese Non-Agression Pact

  • Operation Barbarossa

    Hitler invades Russia

  • U.S. occupies Iceland

  • Japan occupies Indochina

    FDR freezes Japanese trade

  • Greer Incident

    U-Boat sinks U.S. warboat, FDR declares a shoot on sight order. Two more U.S. ships are sunk.

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan launches air assualt on Pearl Harbor. Japan then attacks more land in Asia.

  • Germany and Italy declare war on U.S.

    U.S. now locked in war effort