Pre-WWII Timeline - Demisse, Bilen by Bilen Demisse

September 1931

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Japan invades Manchuria for its resources—LoN protests

March 1933

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Japan withdraws from LoN, no consequences

August 1935

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

March- 1935

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Germany begins to rearm under Hitler’s leadership violating ToV

October 1935

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Italy invades Ethiopia seeking revenge

March 1936

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

July 1936

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

October 1936

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Germany, Italy, and Japan began to create the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, which became known as the Axis Powers

July 1937

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

September 1938

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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

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Hitler takes the rest of Czechoslovakia—West does nothing

August 1939

1069946_1 — 2025-02-12 05:38:06 UTC

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

March 1938

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