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• The Japanese Army invades Manchuria
On September 19, 1931, the day after the Mukden Incident, the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, which had decided upon a policy of localizing the incident, communicated its decision to the Kwantung Army command -
Mussolini (Italy) conquers Ethiopia
Italy lost its Ethiopia colony in Africa at 1896 Battle of Adua.
Mussolini ordered the bombing of Adowa by planes and the beginning of the invasion of Ethiopia by Marshal Badoglio, who was authorized to use poison mustard gas and destroy civilian villages. -
• Britain’s Neville Chamberlain and Hitler meet at the Munich Conference.
In September 1938, Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister, met Adolf Hitler at his home in Berchtesgaden. Hitler threatened to invade Czechoslovakia unless Britain supported Germany's plans to takeover the Sudetenland. After discussing the issue with the Edouard Daladier (France) and Eduard Benes (Czechoslovakia), Chamberlain informed Hitler that his proposals were unacceptable. -
• General Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces take control of Madrid (Spain), where he rules until his death in 1975.
After winning the Spanish Civil War, the Nacionales had established a single party authoritarian state under the undisputed leadership of Franco. Spain was declared a kingdom in 1947, but no monarch was designated; -
Hitlor invades Poland
Germany invaded Poland that marked the start of World War II in Europe. The invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, and ended on 6 October 1939 with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland.
