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1931 September-Japan invades Manchuria for its’ resources—LoN protests

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1933 March-Japan withdraws from LoN, no consequences.

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1935 March-Germany begins to rearm under Hitler’s leadership violating ToV

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1935 August-U.S. gov’t passes the Neutrality Acts—banned loans and sale of arms to nations at war

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1935 October-Italy invades Ethiopia seeking revenge

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1936 March-Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland—buffer zone on German-French border

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1936 July-Spanish Civil War begins—Hitler and Mussolini send troops to help Francisco Franco and the Nationalists

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1936 October-Germany, Italy, and Japan begin to create the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis become known as the Axis Powers

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1937 July-Japan invades China—Rape of Nanking takes place—Japanese treat Chinese brutally—rape over 20,000 women

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1938 March-Hitler again violates the ToV by creating Anschluss—union between Germany and Austria, he annexes Austria

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1938 September-Munich Conference, Hitler demands the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia—France and Britain give into Germany to preserve peace—they give him the Sudetenland (Stalin upset)

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1939 March—Hitler takes the rest of Czechoslovakia—West does nothing

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1939 August, Hitler and Stalin sign a Nonaggression Pact—publicly pledge to never attack each other