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1922
Japan signs treaty with China to respect China's borders -
1928
Japan signs Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing war -
1929
Great Depression struck and many Japanese blamed the government -
September 1931
Japanese army seized Manchuria, despite objections from the Japanese parliament -
1933
Japan withdraws from League of Nations -
1935
U.S. begins passing the Neutrality Acts -
March 1935
Hitler announces Germany will not obey Treaty of Versailles -
October 1935
Italy attacks Ethiopia -
March 1936
Germany occupies Rhineland -
July 1936
Army leaders joined General Francisco Franco in a revolt -
October 1936
Italy and Germany make an alliance -
November 1936
Germany made an agreement with Japan -
1937
Japan invades China; full-scale war between Japan and China -
March 1938
Germany annexes Austria -
September 1938
Germany takes Sudetenland -
September 29, 1938
Munich Conference -
1939
Republican resistance collapsed -
March 1939
Germany invades Czechoslovakia -
April 1939
Italy invades Albania -
August 1939
Nazis and Soviets sign Nonaggression Pact -
August 23,1939
Stalin and Hitler sign a non-aggression pact -
September 1,1939
Hitler's surprise attack against Poland -
September 3,1939
France and Great Britain declared war on Germany -
September 17,1939
Soviet Union invades eastern Poland,Lithuania,Latvia,Estonia,and Finland -
March 1940
Stalin forced the Finns to accept his surrender terms -
April 1940
The calm ended. Germany invades Denmark and Norway. -
May 1940
Germany invades Netherlands,Belgium,and Luxembourg -
June 14,1940
The Germans took Paris -
June 22,1940
French leaders surrendered -
September 1940
Battle of Britain -
March 1941
Hitler sends Rommel to help Italian troops in Egypt -
April 1941
Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece -
June 1941
Germany invades Soviet Union -
September 4,1941
A German U-boat fired on a U.S. destroyer in the Atlantic -
September 8,1941
German forces put Leningrad under seige -
October 1941
Germans try to take Moscow
