1 chojolan Joseph Pre-WWII Timeline by Joseph Chojolan

September 1931

1069853_1 — 2025-02-12 16:54:33 UTC

Japan invades Manchuria for its’ resources—LoN protests

March 1933

1069853_1 — 2025-02-12 17:00:14 UTC

Japan withdraws from LoN, no consequences

March 1935

1069853_1 — 2025-02-12 17:02:35 UTC

Germany begins to rearm under Hitler’s leadership violating ToV

August 1935

1069853_1 — 2025-02-12 17:08:35 UTC

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

October 1935

1069853_1 — 2025-02-12 17:11:25 UTC

Italy invades Ethiopia seeking revenge

March 1936

1069853_1 — 2025-02-12 17:17:27 UTC

Hitler re-militarizes the Rhineland—buffer zone on German-French border

July 1936

1069853_1 — 2025-02-12 17:18:55 UTC

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

October 1936

1069853_1 — 2025-02-12 17:19:21 UTC

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

July 1937

1069853_1 — 2025-02-12 17:19:50 UTC

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

March 1938

1069853_1 — 2025-02-12 17:20:22 UTC

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

September 1938

1069853_1 — 2025-02-12 17:20:52 UTC

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

March 1939

1069853_1 — 2025-02-12 17:21:17 UTC

Hitler takes the rest of Czechoslovakia—West does nothing

August 1939

1069853_1 — 2025-02-12 17:21:48 UTC

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