Pre-WWII Timeline by Noemi Diaz

September - 1931

1069956_1 — 2025-02-13 21:12:31 UTC

Japan invades Manchuria for its’ resources—LoN protests

March - 1933

1069956_1 — 2025-02-13 21:15:15 UTC

Japan withdraws from LoN, no consequences

March - 1935

1069956_1 — 2025-02-13 21:16:31 UTC

Germany begins to rearm under Hitler’s leadership violating ToV

October - 1935

1069956_1 — 2025-02-13 21:20:30 UTC

Italy invades Ethiopia seeking revenge

August - 1935

1069956_1 — 2025-02-13 21:21:47 UTC

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

March - 1936

1069956_1 — 2025-02-13 21:24:46 UTC

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

July - 1936

1069956_1 — 2025-02-13 21:27:34 UTC

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

October - 1936

1069956_1 — 2025-02-13 21:29:39 UTC

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

July - 1937

1069956_1 — 2025-02-13 21:32:52 UTC

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

March - 1938

1069956_1 — 2025-02-13 21:35:16 UTC

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

September - 1938

1069956_1 — 2025-02-13 21:37:37 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

1069956_1 — 2025-02-13 21:43:44 UTC

Hitler takes the rest of Czechoslovakia—West does nothing

August - 1939

1069956_1 — 2025-02-14 03:13:53 UTC

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