Pre-WWII Timeline by Milagros Zamora

September 1931

1066512_2 — 2025-02-12 20:06:54 UTC

Japan invades Manchuria for its’ resources—LoN protests

March 1933

1066512_2 — 2025-02-12 20:13:34 UTC

Japan withdraws from LoN, no consequences

March 1935

1066512_2 — 2025-02-12 20:18:37 UTC

Germany begins to rearm under Hitler’s leadership violating ToV

August 1935

1066512_2 — 2025-02-12 20:21:50 UTC

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

October 1935

1066512_2 — 2025-02-12 20:28:29 UTC

Italy invades Ethiopia seeking revenge

March 1936

1066512_2 — 2025-02-12 20:33:05 UTC

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

July 1936

1066512_2 — 2025-02-12 20:39:14 UTC

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

October 1936

1066512_2 — 2025-02-14 05:41:06 UTC

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

July 1937

1066512_2 — 2025-02-14 05:48:35 UTC

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

March 1938

1066512_2 — 2025-02-14 05:51:51 UTC

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

September 1938

1066512_2 — 2025-02-14 06:38:42 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

1066512_2 — 2025-02-14 06:41:13 UTC

March—Hitler takes the rest of Czechoslovakia—West does nothing

August 1939

1066512_2 — 2025-02-14 06:45:47 UTC

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