Pre-WWII Timeline by Lynda Figueroa-Mendez

September 1931

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Japan invades Manchuria for its resources-LoN protests

March 1933

1070370_2 — 2025-02-12 22:01:45 UTC

Japan withdraws from LoN,no consequences

March 1935

1070370_2 — 2025-02-12 22:05:20 UTC

Germany begins to rearm under Hitlers leadership violating ToV

August 1935

1070370_2 — 2025-02-12 22:08:34 UTC

U.S govt passes the neutrality acts-banned loans and sell arms to nations at war

October 1935

1070370_2 — 2025-02-12 22:10:46 UTC

Italy invades Ethiopia seeking for revenge

March 1936

1070370_2 — 2025-02-12 22:13:59 UTC

Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland-buffer zone on german-French boarder

July 1936

1070370_2 — 2025-02-13 19:21:35 UTC

Spanish civil war begins-Hitler and Mussolini send troops to help Francisco Franco and the Nationalist

October 1936

1070370_2 — 2025-02-14 03:47:34 UTC

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

July 1937

1070370_2 — 2025-02-14 03:51:57 UTC

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

March 1938

1070370_2 — 2025-02-14 03:58:24 UTC

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

September 1938

1070370_2 — 2025-02-14 04:03:49 UTC

Munich conference.Hitler demands the sudetenland from czechoslovakia-France and Britian give into to germany to preserve peace-they give him the sudetenland (stalin upset)

March 1939

1070370_2 — 2025-02-14 04:09:48 UTC

Hitler takes the rest of czechoslovakia-West does nothing

August 1939

1070370_2 — 2025-02-14 04:13:03 UTC

Hitler and Stalin sign a nonaggression pact-publicly pledge to never attack each other