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Japan attacks Manchuria
he Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 19 September 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. After the war, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_of_Manchuria
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Germany leaves League of Nations
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1933/02/24/Japan-stuns-world-withdraws-from-league/2231840119817/
nine months after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, the German government announced its withdrawal from the League of Nations. The ostensible reason was the refusal of the Western powers to acquiesce in Germany's demands for military parity.
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Japan leaves Leauge of Nations
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.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1933/02/24/Japan-stuns-world-withdraws-from-league/2231840119817/
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US Neutrality Acts Signed
Congress passed the first Neutrality Act prohibiting the export of “arms, ammunition, and implements of war” from the United States to foreign nations at war and requiring arms manufacturers in the United States to apply for an export license.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/neutrality-acts
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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 July 7, 1937, to September 2, 1945. It began with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937 in which a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops escalated into a battle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War
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Germany takes over Austria
Anschluss refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938. The word's German spelling, until the German orthography reform of 1996, was Anschluß and it was also known as the Anschluss Österreichs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss
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Munich Peace Conference Begins
During which the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations.
https://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206473.pdf
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Germany takes over Czechoslovakia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_Czechoslovakia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_Czechoslovakia
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Non-Aggression Pact between Germany and Soviet Union
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union also signed a ten-year nonaggression pact on August 23, 1939, in which each signatory promised not to attack the other. The German-Soviet Pact enabled Germany to attack Poland on September 1, 1939, without fear of Soviet intervention.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-soviet-pact
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Germany Invades Poland
The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign or the 1939 Defensive War, and in Germany as the Poland Campaign, was an invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning of World War II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland
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France Falls to the Germans
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_France
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Battle of Britain Begins
Battle of Britain is the name commonly given to the effort by the Luftwaffe to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF), before a planned sea and airborne invasion of Britain during the Second World War.
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/war/battleofbritain.htm
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/war/battleofbritain.htm