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Germany takes Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia handed over 66 percent of their coal, 70 percent of their iron and steel, and 70 percent of their electrical power. -
Japan attacks Manchuria
The United States Minister to China reported to Secretary of State Stimson, in a telegram dated September 22, his opinion that this was "an aggressive act by Japan", apparently long-planned, and carefully and systematically put into effect. -
Germany and Japan leave League of Nations
The League of Nations was successful in mediating some territorial disputes that were largely aftershocks from WWI, such as in Upper Silesia, where violent conflict was nipped in the bud (albeit temporarily) between Poles and Germans. -
US Neutrality Acts
In the 1930s, the United States Government enacted a series of laws designed to prevent the United States from being embroiled in a foreign war by clearly stating the terms of U.S. neutrality. -
Japan attacks China
He said that a first-class power like Japan not only could afford to exercise general self-restraint but that in the long run it was far better that this should characterize the attitude and policy of the Japanese Government; that he had been looking forward to an early period when Japan and the United States would have opportunity for world leadership with a constructive program like that proclaimed by the American republics at Buenos Aires in December 1936 for the purpose of restoring and pres -
Germany takes Austria
In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany. -
Munich Peace Conference
As part of the Munich agreement all predominantly German territory in Czechoslovakia was to be handed over by October 10th. - See more at: http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/munich-conference#sthash.OUWlu5AD.dpuf -
Non-Aggression Pact
two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years. -
Germany Invades Poland
Once Hitler had a base of operations within the target country, he immediately began setting up “security” forces to annihilate all enemies of his Nazi ideology, whether racial, religious, or political. -
France Falls to the Germans
French second-rate divisions in the area were not prepared or equipped to deal with the major armoured thrust that developed (the forest and poor roads were thought to make this impossible), and were hammered by incessant attacks by German bombers. -
Battle of Britain
In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the skies over the United Kingdom, locked in the largest sustained bombing campaign to that date.
