Pre- WWII Timeline by Brianna Cantor

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

March 1935

1060406 — 2024-02-14 21:59:20 UTC

Germany begins to rearm under Hitler’s leadership violating ToV

August 1935

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

October 1935

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Italy invades Ethiopia seeking revenge

March 1936

1060406 — 2024-02-15 22:01:48 UTC

Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland—buffer zone on 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

1060406 — 2024-02-15 22:09:21 UTC

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

March 1938

1060406 — 2024-02-15 22:15:01 UTC

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

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

1060406 — 2024-02-15 22:19:45 UTC

Hitler takes the rest of Czechoslovakia—West does nothing

August 1939

1060406 — 2024-02-15 22:21:30 UTC

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