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Japan seizes Manchuria
Japan military leaders and ultranationalists though that Japan should have an empire equall to those of the Western powers. -
Neutrality Act
The United States Congress passed the Neutrality Acts. -
The Axis powers are formed
Britain, France, and the United States, Germany, Italy and Japan formed what became known as the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis ( THE AXIS POWERS) -
Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles
Hitler sent troops into the "demilitarized Rhineland bordering France. -
Ethiopia is conquered by Italy
Ethiopia appealed to the League of Nations for help, but the League had no power to enforce sanctions, and by early 1936, Italy had conquered Ethiopia. -
Western democracies adopted policies of Appeasement
The Western democracies gave in to Hitler to keep peace -
Trouble in Spain
a local struggle in Spain polarized public opinion throughout Europe. The trouble began in 1931, when popular unrest against the old order forced the king to leave Spain. A republic was set up with a new, more liberal constitution -
Francisco Franco
Franco led a revolt that touched off a bloody civil war. -
German air raid
In Guernica, a small spanish market, was air raided by Germany. German planes dropped loads of bombs and then swooped low to machine- gun anyone who survived. -
Second Sino-Japanese War
Japanese armies overran much of eastern China starting the war. -
Italy invaded Ethiopia
Ethipians resisted bravely, their outdated weapons were no match for Mussolini's tanks, machine guns, poison gas, and airplanes. -
Anschluss
Hitler was ready to engineer the union of Austria and Germany -
appeasement was chosen
At the Munich Conference British and French leaders again chose appeasement. They caved into Hitler's commands. -
Hitler broke his promise
Hitler broke his promises and gobbled up the rest of Czechoslovakia. -
Franco had triumphed
Franco created a facist dictatorship simliar to the dictatorships of Hitler and Mussolini -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Hitler stunned the worls by announcing a nonaggression pact with his great enemy - Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator -
Germany invades Poland
German forces invade Poland a week after the Nazi-Soviet Pact -
Bataan Death March
the Japanese had gained control of the Philippines, killing several hundred American soldiers and as many as 10,000 Filipino soldiers during the 65-mile Bataan Death March -
V-E Day
Officially, the war in Europe ended the next day, -
The Manhattan Project
the first atomic bomb was tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico -
Atomic bombs on Hiroshima
the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima after the Japanese would not surrender.