The Road to WWII

  • Japan seizes Manchuria

    In violation of orders from Tokyo, Kwantung Army commander in chief General Shigeru Honjō ordered that his forces quickly proceed to expand operations all along the South Manchurian Railway.
  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
    He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945.
  • Japan leaves the league of nations

    Japan leaves the league for getting blamed for events in Manchuria
  • Hitler rearms Germany

    Hitler rearms Germany
    He said he would break all unjust terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
  • Germany Reoccupies the Rhineland

    Germany Reoccupies the Rhineland
    Germany gains more land because it takes over the Rhineland.
  • The Rome-Berlin Axis is signed

    The Rome-Berlin Axis is signed
    Italy and Germany were the 2 Axis powers.
  • Japan and Germany agree to the Anti-Comintern alliance

    Japan and Germany agree to the Anti-Comintern alliance
    Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan were the 2 sides that concluded on this pact.
  • China engages and begins to fight Japan

    China retaliates and fights back Japan
  • Japan captures China's capital

    Japan pretty much takes over from here.
  • Kai-shek practices appeasement

    Somewhere in Asia during WWII
  • Anschluss

    Anschluss
    This was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938.
  • The Munich Conference

    The Munich Conference
    This was an agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
  • Germany occupies all of Czechoslovakia

    Germany occupies all of Czechoslovakia
    The German Wehrmacht moved into the remainder of Czechoslovakia to completely occupy it.
  • Nazi-Soviet Nonaggresion Pact is signed

    Nazi-Soviet Nonaggresion Pact is signed
    German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov met each other to discuss the details of this pact.
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland
    The invasion began on 1 September 1939.
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  • Japan announces that it wants French Indochina

    Japan is trying to invade French Indochina
  • Pearl Harbor is attacked

    This was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor
  • WWII ENDS

    The title says it all