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Japan attacks Manchuria
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Manchuria)
(https://www.johndclare.net/EL5.htm)
, they claimed that Chinese soldiers had sabotaged the railway, and attacked the Chinese army which had just executed a Japanese spy. -
Japan leaves Leauge of Nations
(https://www.upi.com/Archives/1933/02/24/Japan-stuns...league/2231840119817/)
(https://www.upi.com/Archives/1933/.../Japan...withdraws-from-league/2231840119817/)
The Japanese delegation, defying world opinion, withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly today after the assembly had adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria. -
Germany leaves League of Nations
(https://www.wdl.org/en/item/11598/)
(https://www.wdl.org/en/item/11598/)
some nine months after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, the German government announced its withdrawal from the League of Nations. -
US Neutrality Acts Signed
(https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs...and.../neutrality-acts-0)
(https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs...and.../neutrality-acts-0)
to limit U.S. involvement in future wars. They were based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies. -
Japan attacks China
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War)
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War)
Chinese communist forces launched a counter offensive in Central China while Chinese nationalist forces launched a large scale winter offensive. -
Germany takes over Austria
(https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-annexes-austria)
(https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/germany-annexes-austria)
German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. -
Munich Peace Conference Begins
(https://www.britannica.com/event/Munich-Agreement)
(https://www.britannica.com/event/Munich-Agreement)
settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia. -
World War II comes to Europe
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Germany takes over Czechoslovakia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_Czechoslovakia)
(https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nazis-take-czechoslovakia)
Hitler's forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia–a nation sacrificed on the altar of the Munich Pact, which was a vain attempt to prevent Germany's imperial aims. That same day, German troops poured into Bohemia and Moravia. -
Non-Aggression Pact between Germany and Soviet Union
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact)
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact)
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
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland)
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/invasion-of-poland-fall-1939
Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. -
France Falls to the Germans
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_France
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(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_France
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German forces defeated Allied forces by mobile operations and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front -
Battle of Britain Begins
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain)
(https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-battle-of-britain-begins)
Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which will last three and a half months, begins.