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During October 24, 1929. The American stock market crashed starting the Great Depression a few days later. “The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.”― John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash of 1929. https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/1929-stock-market-crash

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On September 18, 1931. The Japanese Empire army invades Manchuria and turns it into a puppet state called Manchukuo.
"I will never forget the violence, the atrocities and the aggression that the Imperial Japanese soldiers enacted during the Nanjing Massacre."- testimony from Chen Jiashou.  https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/invasion-manchuria

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This occurred in Geneva in 1932. Sixty countries sent delegates to this conference. Germany demanded that he were not to be as constrained by the Treaty of Versailles. While France, being scared of Germany, denied this. Germany wanted a stronger army which was prohibited by the Treaty of Versailles.
"The world wants disarmament. The world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion the pattern of future of history. Behind all the technical complexities regarding man-power, gun-power, tonnage, categories, and the like, is the well-being of mankind, the future of our developing civilisation."

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Sixty countries sent delegates to the Disarmament Conference that convened in Geneva in February 1932 to consider reductions in armaments, with particular emphasis on offensive weapons. Germany, whose army and navy already were limited by the Treaty of Versailles, demanded that other states disarm to German levels and, in the event they refused to do so, claimed a right to build up its armed forces. France, which feared the revival of German power, argued that security must precede disarmament and called for security guarantees and the establishment of an international police force before it would reduce its own forces. Deadlocked, the conference adjourned in the summer of 1932. It reconvened in February 1933, only days after Adolf Hitler had assumed power in Germany. Determined to rearm, Germany rejected all proposals that did not accord it immediate military parity with the Western powers. On October 23, 1933, Germany announced its withdrawal from both the Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations, ostensibly in response to the Western powers' refusal to meet its demand for equality. Prior to its withdrawal, Germany was represented at the conference by Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, who can be seen in this group portrait of the delegates (seated, at center). The photograph is included in the archives of the League, which were transferred to the United Nations in 1946 and are housed at the UN office in Geneva. They were inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 2010.

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Sixty countries sent delegates to the Disarmament Conference that convened in Geneva in February 1932 to consider reductions in armaments, with particular emphasis on offensive weapons. Germany, whose army and navy already were limited by the Treaty of Versailles, demanded that other states disarm to German levels and, in the event they refused to do so, claimed a right to build up its armed forces.

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On January the 30, 1933. Following a series of electoral victories for the Nazi Party. President Von Hindenburg appoints Hitler as Chancellor with very limited power.
"True to the order of the Field Marshal, we shall begin. May Almighty God look mercifully upon our work, lead our will on the right path, bless our wisdom, and reward us with the confidence of our volk. We are not fighting for ourselves, but for Germany!”- Adolf Hitler
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-is-named-chancellor-of-germany

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On October 1934 there was an invasion of Abyssinia over Italy's policy of aggression against Ethiopia. This was the first test to really see it the League could do anything to prevent it. The League could not prevent this from occurring.
https://schoolhistory.co.uk/notes/abyssinian-crisis/

"Surely it is time that the nations who compose the League should review the situation and if should decide so to limit the functions of the League in future that they may accord with its real powers. If that policy were to be pursued and were to be courageously carried out, I believe that it might go far to restore the prestige of the League and the moral influence which it ought to exert in the world. But if the League be, limited in that sort of way it must be admitted that it could no longer be relied upon by itself to secure the peace of the world."

From a speech by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to the 1900 Club  (10 June 1936), reported in The Times (11 June 1936)

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An agreement that was signed in April 1935 between France, Britain and Italy. The reason for the signing of this treaty was to show their opposition to Hitler rearming Germany because it went against the Treaty of Versailles.
Stresa Front | European alliance | Britannica
"Soon after Stresa, on June 18th 1935,... Great Britain signed a naval agreement with them and without informing neither France nor Italy, which put a direct proportion to Germany and Britain by number and tonnage of warships, in fact renegading the agreements of Stresa, as well as those of Versailles of 1919. Benito Mussolini was furious when he heard the news and, unfortunately for Italy, convinced himself that Hitler couldn't be stopped anymore and that, therefore, he had to ride the tiger. – John Simon

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Signed on November 12, 1936. Signed initially by Germany and Japan. The purpose of the pact was to overturn the communism that had occurred due to the Comintern which was also called the Communist International. It was a military alliance. Anti-comintern Pact | Encyclopedia.com
“I don't think anybody'd remember and certainly do know everybody'd lie. The reason I'm so bitter and, as I said, 'in anguish,' nowadays, or one of the reasons, is that everybody's begun to lie and because they lie they assume that I lie too: they overlook the fact that I remember very well many things (of course I've forgotten some...)

I do believe that lying is a sin, unless it's innocent lie based on lack of memory, certainly the giving of false evidence and being a false witness is a mortal sin, but what I mean is, insofar as lying has become so prevalent in the world today (thanks to Marxian Dialectical propaganda and Comitern techniques among other causes) that, when a man tells the truth, everybody, looking in the mirror and seeing a liar...

...like those LSD heads in newspaper photographs who sit in parks gazing rapturously at the sky to show how high they are when they're only victims momentarily of a contraction of the blood vessels and nerves in the brain that causes the illusion...”
― Jack Kerouac, Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46

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This war began in 1936 and ended in 1939. Was due to a lot of economic, social and political unfairness  especially that was present in Spain . Was a revolt against the Republican government in Spain.
“As time went on, the Communists and the POUM wrote more bitterly about one another than about the Fascists.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

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Spanish Civil War, (1936-39), military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country. When an initial military coup failed to win control of the entire country, a bloody civil war ensued, fought with great ferocity on both sides. The Nationalists, as the rebels were called, received aid from Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. The Republicans received aid from the Soviet Union as well as from the International Brigades, composed of volunteers from Europe and the United States.

The war was an outcome of a polarization of Spanish life and politics that had developed over previous decades. On one side, the Nationalist, were most Roman Catholics, important elements of the military, most landowners, and many businessmen. On the other side, the Republican, were urban workers, most agricultural labourers, and many of the educated middle class. Politically, their differences often found extreme and vehement expression in parties such as the Fascist-oriented Falange and the militant anarchists. Between these extremes were other groups covering the political spectrum from monarchism and conservatism through liberalism to socialism, including a small communist movement divided among followers of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his archrival, Leon Trotsky. In 1934 there was widespread labour conflict and a bloody uprising by miners in Asturias that was suppressed by troops led by General Francisco Franco. A succession of governmental crises culminated in the elections of February 16, 1936, which brought to power a Popular Front government supported by most of the parties of the left and opposed by the parties of the right and what remained of the centre.

A well-planned military uprising began on July 17, 1936, in garrison towns throughout Spain. By July 21 the rebels had achieved control in Spanish Morocco, the Canary Islands, and the Balearic Islands (except Minorca) and in the part of Spain north of the Guadarrama mountains and the Ebro River, except for Asturias, Santander, and the Basque provinces along the north coast and the region of Catalonia in the northeast. The Republican forces had put down the uprising in other areas, except for some of the larger Andalusian cities, including Sevilla (Seville), Granada, and Córdoba. The Nationalists and Republicans proceeded to organize their respective territories and to repress opposition or suspected opposition. Republican violence occurred primarily during the early stages of the war before the rule of law was restored, but the Nationalist violence was part of a conscious policy of terror. The matter of how many were killed remains highly contentious; however, it is generally believed that the toll of Nationalist violence was higher. In any event, the proliferation of executions, murders, and assassinations on both sides reflects the great passions that the Civil War unleashed.

The captaincy of the Nationalists was gradually assumed by General Franco, leading forces he had brought from Morocco. On October 1, 1936, he was named head of state and set up a government in Burgos. The Republican government, beginning in September 1936, was headed by the socialist leader Francisco Largo Caballero. He was followed in May 1937 by Juan Negrín, also a socialist, who remained premier throughout the remainder of the war and served as premier in exile until 1945. The president of the Spanish Republic until nearly the end of the war was Manuel Azaña, an anticlerical liberal. Internecine conflict compromised the Republican effort from the outset. On one side were the anarchists and militant socialists, who viewed the war as a revolutionary struggle and spearheaded widespread collectivization of agriculture, industry, and services; on the other were the more moderate socialists and republicans, whose objective was the preservation of the Republic. Seeking allies against the threat of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union had embraced a Popular Front strategy, and, as a result, the Comintern directed Spanish communists to support the Republicans.

Both the Nationalist and Republican sides, seeing themselves as too weak to win a quick victory, turned abroad for help. Germany and Italy sent troops, tanks, and planes to aid the Nationalists. The Soviet Union contributed equipment and supplies to the Republicans, who also received help from the Mexican government. During the first weeks of the war, the Popular Front government of France also supported the Republicans, but internal opposition forced a change of policy. In August 1936, France joined Britain, the Soviet Union, Germany, and Italy in signing a nonintervention agreement that would be ignored by the Germans, Italians, and Soviets. About 40,000 foreigners fought on the Republican side in the International Brigades largely under the command of the Comintern, and 20,000 others served in medical or auxiliary units.

By November 1936 the Nationalists had advanced to the outskirts of Madrid. They laid siege to it but were unable to get beyond the University City area. They captured the Basque northern provinces in the summer of 1937 and then Asturias, so that by October they held the whole northern coast. A war of attrition began. The Nationalists drove a salient eastward through Teruel, reaching the Mediterranean and splitting the republic in two in April 1938. In December 1938 they moved upon Catalonia in the northeast, forcing the Republican armies there northward toward France. By February 1939, 250,000 Republican soldiers, together with an equal number of civilians, had fled across the border into France. On March 5 the Republican government flew to exile in France. On March 7 a civil war broke out in Madrid between communist and anticommunist factions. By March 28 all of the Republican armies had begun to disband and surrender, and Nationalist forces entered Madrid on that day.

The number of persons killed in the Spanish Civil War can be only roughly estimated. Nationalist forces put the figure at 1,000,000, including not only those killed in battle but also the victims of bombardment, execution, and assassination. More recent estimates have been closer to 500,000 or less. This does not include all those who died from malnutrition, starvation, and war-engendered disease.

The political and emotional reverberations of the war far transcended those of a national conflict, for many in other countries saw the Spanish Civil War as part of an international conflict between-depending on their point of view-tyranny and democracy, or fascism and freedom, or communism and civilization. For Germany and Italy, Spain was a testing ground for new methods of tank and air warfare. For Britain and France, the conflict represented a new threat to the international equilibrium that they were struggling to preserve, which in 1939 collapsed into World War II. The war also had mobilized many artists and intellectuals to take up arms. Among the most notable artistic responses to the war were the novels Man's Hope (1938) by André Malraux, Adventures of a Young Man (1939) by John Dos Passos, and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway; George Orwell's memoir Homage to Catalonia (1938); Pablo Picasso's painting Guernica (1937); and Robert Capa's photograph Death of a Loyalist Soldier, Spain (1936).

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Spanish Civil War | Definition, Causes, Summary, & Facts

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Spanish Civil War, (1936-39), military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country. When an initial military coup failed to win control of the entire country, a bloody civil war ensued, fought with great ferocity on both sides.

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The annexation of Austria by Germany. This occurred in 1938. One of the first major events in Hitler creating the Greater German Reich.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Anschluss
'Germany neither intends nor wishes in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude Anschluss." -Adolf Hitler

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The agreement in the Munich conference which was called the Munich agreement was signed on September 1938. It was a succesful strategy for Adolf Hitler to show to the rest of Europe that Germany wanted Sudeland and to show Germany's powers to the rest of the world.
“And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigor, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.”
― Winston Churchill

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The Munich Agreement: The Failure of Appeasement

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The Munich Agreement was concluded on Sept. 30, 1938, and saw the powers of Europe give in to Nazi Germany’s demands for the Sudetenland.

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This occurred during the years of 1938- 1945 which was due to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. It started with the invasion of Sudenaland which were the borders of Czechoslovakia and then continued on to other areas.
Nazis take Czechoslovakia - HISTORY
"Germany, which has lately united 80 million Germans, has submitted certain neighboring countries to her supremacy and gained military strength in many aspects, and thus has become, as clearly can be seen, a dangerous rival to principal imperialistic powers in Europe — England and France. That is why they declared war on Germany on a pretext of fulfilling the obligations given to Poland. It is now clearer than ever, how remote the real aims of the cabinets in these countries were from the interests of defending the now disintegrated Poland or Czechoslovakia."

Vyacheslav Molotov

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This pact between Germany and Soviet Russia was signed in August 1939. By signing this pact Hitler avoided many threats including a major two front war. For Stalin he was allowed to expand Soviet rule over the Baltic states. It permitted both Germany and Russia to have an influence in eastern Europe because they pledged to not attack one another.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-soviet-pact

"I must confess to the most profound distrust of Russia. I have no belief whatever in her ability to maintain an effective offensive, even if she wanted to. And I distrust her motives, which seem to me to have little connection with our ideas of liberty, and to be concerned only with getting everyone else by the ears."

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August 31, 1939 Hitler staged an attack with Nazi soldiers looking like Polish soldiers. The attack was staged on purpose to give Hitler and the Nazi's to invade Poland in September 1, 1939.  "There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism. — George Seaton.

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The German invasion of Poland in the fall of 1939 triggered WWII. Learn more about key dates and events, causes, and related Holocaust history.