Pre-WWII Timeline by Timothy Le

September 1931

1070034_7 — 2025-02-12 20:03:12 UTC

Japan invades Manchuria for its’ resources LoN protests.

March 1933

1070034_7 — 2025-02-12 20:04:49 UTC

Japan withdraws from LoN, no consequences.

March 1935

1070034_7 — 2025-02-12 20:05:52 UTC

Germany begins to rearm under Hitler’s leadership violating ToV.

August 1935

1070034_7 — 2025-02-12 20:06:59 UTC

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

October 1935

1070034_7 — 2025-02-12 20:08:07 UTC

Italy invades Ethiopia seeking revenge.

March 1936

1070034_7 — 2025-02-12 20:09:04 UTC

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

July 1936

1070034_7 — 2025-02-12 20:10:57 UTC

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

October 1936

1070034_7 — 2025-02-12 20:11:55 UTC

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

July 1937

1070034_7 — 2025-02-12 20:13:12 UTC

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

March 1938

1070034_7 — 2025-02-12 20:14:06 UTC

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

September 1938

1070034_7 — 2025-02-12 20:15:16 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

1070034_7 — 2025-02-12 20:16:10 UTC

Hitler takes the rest of Czechoslovakia—West does nothing.

August 1939

1070034_7 — 2025-02-12 20:16:59 UTC

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