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The Creation of the League of Nations
It was group that was created after WWI where countries meet to mediate differences.
Significance: It lasted until 1946 but before WWII it lost power. It was a group created to prevent any further wars. -
The Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
Description:Japan was determined by the League of Nations to the agressor against themselves in a bombing of their own built railroad in Manchuria. They used it as a pretext to launch full scale invasion on China because Manchuria was inside China.
Significance: 1937, the League of Nations determined that japan attack their own railway and Japan got angry and left the League of Nations and attacked China. -
Hitler's Program of Rearmament
Hitler started in 1933 but with the Nazi army openly started in 1935.
Significance: Happened because Germany thought the Treaty of Verailles Was unfair therefore Germany broke the rules and started rearmament. -
Invasion of Abyssinia
Description: Italy invaded Abyssinia from Eritea and Somaliland and used mustard gas and killed 16000 people initially but after thousands more were executed by the Italians.
Significance: Italy signed the Geneva Protocol which outlawed chemical weapons. -
The Reoccupation of the Rhineland
German military forces entered the Rhineland and remilitarized.
Significance: This violated the Treaty of Versailles and Locarno treaties. This is the first time the German army occupied that area. -
Spanish Civil War
War was between the Spanish Republicans and the Nationalists. Nationalist were rebels led by General Fransisco Franco. Nationalists won.
Significance: Thousands of republicans were exiled and moved to refugee camps in France. Fransisco led facist dictatorship for 36 years in Spain. -
Anschluss With Austria
Germany connected with Austria in the Anschluss Movement.
Significance: Both the German Nazi army and the Austrian Nazi army united. It was one of the first steps toward Hitler's German Third Reich creation which was to gain land they had lost in WWI -
The Munich Conference
A conference where the Munich agreement was discussed. It is a settlement where Germany has a annexation with Czechoslovakia areas along their borders in a place called Sudetenland.
Significance: Czechoslovakia felt betrayed because they were not even at the conference. They consider it a betrayal because the ones who signed the agreement were the ones who were in a alliance with Czechoslovakia. -
The Invasion of the Rest of Czechoslovakia by Germany
After the Munich agreement, Hitler wanted to take over the rest of Czechoslovakia. Sudtenland was already Germany's but having claimed that land, Czechoslovakia became weak.
Significance: Bohemia and Moravia were taken over. -
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
Nazis and Soviets met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which was an agreement not to attack each other.
Significance: It also said that Soviets should provide food to the Germans. But this pact later ended because Germany launched a suprise attack on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. -
The Invasion of Poland
Germany invaded Poland and broke the Non-Agression Pact with Poland.
Significance: This marked the start of WWII in Europe
