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Japan invades Manchuria for its’ resources - League of Nations protests.

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Japan withdraws from League of Nations; no consequences.

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Germany begins to rearm under Hitler’s leadership - violating Treaty of Versailles.

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U.S. government passes the Neutrality Acts - banning loans and sale of arms to nations at war.

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Italy invades Ethiopia seeking revenge.

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Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland - buffer zone on the German-French border.

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Spanish Civil War begins; Hitler and Mussolini send troops to help Francisco Franco and the Nationalists.

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Germany, Italy, and Japan begin to create the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, which is later to become known as the Axis Powers.

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Japan invades China; Rape of Nanking takes place - Japanese treat Chinese brutally; rape over 20,000 women.

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Hitler again violates the Treaty of Versailles by creating Anschluss - a union between Germany and Austria; he annexes Austria.

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

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Hitler takes the rest of Czechoslovakia; the West does nothing.

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Hitler and Stalin sign a Nonaggression Pact - publicly pledge to never attack each other.