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Japan attacks Manchuria
Between September 20 and September 25 Japanese forces took Hsiungyueh, -
Germany and Japan leave League of Nations
Germany renounced its role in the Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments, ostensibly because the rest of the world refused to come down to their level of military preparedness. -
US Neutrality Acts
Roosevelt's State Department had lobbied for embargo provisions that would allow the President to impose sanctions selectively. -
Japan attacks China
China fought Japan, with some economic help from Germany. -
Germany takes Austria
In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany. -
Munich Peace Conference
Hitler had previously started rearming Germany in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles, reoccupied the Rhineland in 1936 and annexed Austria in 1938. -
Germany takes Czechoslovakia
World War II 1939
Nazis take Czechoslovakia
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On this day, Hitler’s forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia.a nation sacrificed on the altar of the Munich Pact. -
Non-Aggression Pact
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 invaded Poland from the north, south, and west the morning after the Gleiwitz incident. -
France Falls to the Germans
Following the invasion of Poland in the fall of 1939, World War II lapsed into a lull known as the "Phoney War."
