Pre-WWII Timeline by Aurora Rojas-Gaona

September 1931

1066538 — 2025-02-12 20:15:45 UTC

Japan invades Manchuria for it's resources—LoN protests

March 1933

1066538 — 2025-02-12 20:22:09 UTC

Japan withdrawals from LoN, no consequences.

March 1935

1066538 — 2025-02-12 20:24:22 UTC

Germany begins to rearm under Hitler's leadership violating ToV

August 1935

1066538 — 2025-02-12 20:29:13 UTC

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

October 1935

1066538 — 2025-02-12 20:31:00 UTC

Italy invades Ethiopia seeking revenge

March 1936

1066538 — 2025-02-12 20:33:39 UTC

Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland-buffer zone on German-French Border

July 1936

1066538 — 2025-02-12 20:35:50 UTC

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

August 1936

1066538 — 2025-02-12 20:37:33 UTC

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

July 1937

1066538 — 2025-02-12 20:42:09 UTC

Japan invades China-Rape of Naking takes place-Japanese treat Chinese brutally- rape over 200,000 women

March 1938

1066538 — 2025-02-12 22:07:49 UTC

Hitler again violates ToV by creating Anchluss-Union between Germany and Austria, he annexes Austria.

September 1938

1066538 — 2025-02-13 19:08:20 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

1066538 — 2025-02-13 19:14:54 UTC

Hitler takes the rest of Czechoslovakia- West does nothing

October 1939

1066538 — 2025-02-13 19:16:43 UTC

Germany, Italy and Japan begin to create the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis becomes known as the Axis powers