2. 1922  Mussolini is legally put in charge of Italian gov’t

3. 1924  Hitler leaves prison and revives Nazi Party

4. 1929  Great Depression  Militarists control Japan in support of Emperor Hirohito

5. 1931  Japan invades Manchuria

6. 1933  Hitler named Chancellor of Germany  Japan withdraws from League of Nations

7. 1935  Italy invade Ethiopia  Hitler announces Germany will not obey restrictions of Treaty of Versailles

8. 1936  Spanish Civil War begins  Lasts 3 years  Francisco Franco fascist ruler  Germany invades RhinelandRhineland  Axis Powers ally  Germany, Italy, Japan

9. 1937  Japan invades China

10.  Kristallnacht (Nov 9)  Hitler annexes Austria  Germany invades Sudetenland  Munich Conference  Ger., Fr., Br., Ital.  Appeasement 1938

11. 1939  Hitler takes Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia  Hitler and Stalin sign nonaggression pact

12. Sept. 1, 1939  Germany invades Poland

13. Sept. 3, 1939  France and Britain declare war on Germany