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Japan attacks Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
Germany and Japan leave the League of Nations
"Germany Quits League of Nations"
THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, Albany,
New York, October 15, 1933
On October 14, 1933, Germany renounced its role in the Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments, setting the stage for its complete withdrawal from the League of Nations a week later. -
Us Neutrality Acts
On this day in 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act, or Senate Joint Resolution No. 173, which he calls an “expression of the desire…to avoid any action which might involve [the U.S.] in war.” The signing came at a time when newly installed fascist governments in Europe were beginning to beat the drums of war. -
Japan Attacks China
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945. It followed the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95. -
Germany Takes Austria
On March 12, 1938, German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. -
Munich Peace Conference
The agreement permitting Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland was signed on Sept 29, 1938. -
Germany takes Czechoslovakia
Hitler forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia, which is a nation sacrifices of the Munich Pact. The Axis Powers signed the Muncih Pact which will seal Czechoslavakia -
Non Aggression Pact
On August 23, 1939–shortly before World War II (1939-45) broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. -
Germany Invades Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun. World War II 1939
Germany invades Poland
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On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun.
The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage. -
France falls to the Germans
ON September 11 1939 is the day France surrenders to Germany and eventually joins them. this is when the U.S fights on D-day and liberates them. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force which began at the end of June 1940.
