Countdown to global war

The Move to Global War Timeline

By Mariela y Ale

  • Washington Agreements

  • Mussolini takes power

  • Locarno Treaty

  • The Kellogg Briand Pact

  • Kwantung army assassinates the Manchurian warlord

  • Stock Market Crash

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    Militarism replaces democracy in the Japanese Diet

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    The Great Depression

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    Concept of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

  • Lytton Report

    The League of Nations attempt to determine the causes of the Mukden Incident, which led to the Empire of Japan's seizure of Manchuria.

  • Mukden Incident

    Was an event staged as a pretext for the Japanese invasion in 1931 of Manchuria.

  • Creation of Manchukuo

  • Assassination of Prime Minister Inukai

  • Hitler becomes the chancellor

  • Japan withdrawal from the League of Nations

  • Occupation of Rhineland

  • Germany withdraws from the Geneva Conference

  • Japan withdraws from the Naval Treaties

  • Germany signs a 10 year Non-Aggression Pact with Poland

  • Establishment of the Stresa Front

    Coalition of France, Britain, and Italy formed in April 1935 at Stresa, Italy, to oppose Adolf Hitler's announced intention to rearm Germany,

  • Conquest of Abyssinia

  • Hoare-Laval Pact

    Secret plan to offer Benito Mussolini most of Abyssinia in return for a truce in the Italo-Ethiopian War

  • Germany re-introduces conscription and the airforce

  • Collapse of the Stresa Front

  • Rome-Berlin Axis Alliance

  • Anti-Comintern Pact

    Was an anti-Communist pact concluded between Germany and Japan
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    Spanish Civil War

    -France and Great Britain would not favor from supporting either side, thus decided to not intervined
    -Hitler and Mussolini supported the nationalists/facists
    -Stallin supported the left/republicans.

  • Italy withdraws from the League of Nations

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    The 2nd Sino-Japanese war

  • Hossbach Memorandum

    Was the summary of a meeting between Hitler and his military and foreign policy leadership were expansionist policies were outlined.
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    The Rape of Nanking

  • Anschluss

    Refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany

  • Munich Conference

    The leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia.

  • Pact of Steel

    Italy and Germany agree to a military and political alliance, giving birth formally to the Axis powers.

  • German troops occupy all of Czechoslovakia

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact)

    Hitler avoided the threat of a major two-front war, and Stalin was permitted to expand Soviet rule over the Baltic states and parts of Romania and Finland. It permitted Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to carve up spheres of influence in eastern Europe.

  • Germany invades Poland (WWII begins)

  • Italy declares war

  • The Tripartite Pact

    Agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan

  • US institutes embargos on Japan

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor