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japan invades
Japanese military leaders and ultranationalists thought japan should have an empire to equal to those of western powers.
to pursuit of this goal, japan seized manchuria. -
italy invades Ethiopa
Ethiopia resisited bravely, their outdated weapons were no m atch for mussolini's tanks.Ethiopia king haile Selaassie appleaded to the league of nations. -
japan overruns Eastern China
Japanese armies overran much of eastern china, starting the second Sino-Japanese war. once again, western protests did not stop japan. -
Austria Annexed
Hitler was ready to engineer the anschluss the union of austria and germany.He forced Austrian chancellor to appoint nazis to key cabinet posts. -
the Czech crisis
Hitlers demand and then persuaded the czech to surrender the sudetenland without a fight.hitler assured that britain and france that he had no further plans that expand his territory. -
Europe plunges toward war
hitler has broke his promises and haas gobbled up the rest of czechoslovakia. Democracies finally accepted the fact of appeasement that had failed.. -
Nazi-soviet pact
HItler stunned the world by announcing a nonagrgression pact with his great enemy. publicly nazi-soviet pact bound hitler and stalin to peaceful relations. -
Invasion of poland
a week after the nazi-soviet pact, german forces invaded poland. a couple of days after the nazi-soviet pact, britain and france declared war on Germany, and world war II begun.
