World war II comes to Europe

  • Japan attacks Manchuria

    Japan attacks Manchuria
    when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. Wikipedia
  • US Neutrality Acts

    US Neutrality Acts
    Congress passed the first Neutrality Act prohibiting the export of “arms, ammunition, and implements of war” from the United States to foreign nations at war and requiring arms manufacturers in the United States to apply for an export license
  • Germany and Japan leave League of Nations

    Germany and Japan leave League of Nations
    japan itself would withdraw from the League of Nations in 1935 to pursue its own greater ambitions in the Far East. Hitler witnessed the League's humility firsthand when Germany assisted Italy's takeover of Abyssinia in October 1935 as the world community stood by passively.
  • Japan attacks China

    Japan attacks China
    The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan
  • Germany takes Austria

    Germany takes Austria
    hilter wanted to make austria a ferdeal state of germany
  • Germany takes Czechoslovakia

    Germany takes Czechoslovakia
    British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact, which sealed the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace.
  • Non-Aggression Pact

    Non-Aggression Pact
    enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
  • Munich Peace Conference

    Munich Peace Conference
    To make the territory a part of Germany. He claimed that the German speaking inhabitants of this land were being mistreated by the Czech government.
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland
    The day before, Nazi operatives had posed as Polish military officers to stage an attack on the radio station in the Silesian city of Gleiwitz. Germany used the event as the pretext for its invasion of Poland.
  • France Falls to the Germans

    France Falls to the Germans
    france signed an armistice with Germany. Hitler insisted that it be done in the same railway car in which Germany had surrendered to France in 1918, at the end of World War I.
  • Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force which began at the end of June 1940.