Road to War

By tekiwilde

  • Japanese invasion and occupation of Manchuria (northern China)

  • Italian invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

  • The Rome-Berlin Pact was made between Italy and Germany

  • The Anti-Comintern Pact was signed by Germany and Japan

  • German troops reoccupy Rhineland

  • The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis was signed by leaders from Italy, Germany and Japan

    From then on these countries were known as the Axis Powers

  • Japanese invasion of east China

    Begins and eight-year war with China

  • German union with Austria

  • Germany claims the Sudetenland

  • Germany occupies the remainder of Czechoslovakia

  • Non-Aggression Pact between Germany and the USSR

  • German invasion of Poland

  • Italian invasion of Albania