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Japan attacks Manchuria
began in 1931 the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
Germany and Japan leave League of Nations
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
The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s. They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I. -
Germany takes Austria
German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.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. He was now determined to seize the Sudetenland. -
Germany takes Czechoslovakis
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. -
Non-Aggression Pact
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, -
Germany Invades Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air. Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. -
France Falls to the Germans
The German plan for the invasion of France. German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes and then along the Somme valley to cut off and surround the Allied units, that had advanced into Belgium to meet the expected German threat. -
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 -
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
