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Aggressive Steps Towards World War II
A Timeline
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1931 Japan invades Manchuria – “Manchurian Incident”
League of Nations protest
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1935 Italy invades Ethiopia
League of Nations failure to stop Japan encourages Mussolini He wanted to avenge 1890 defeat
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1935 The Saar was returned to Germany after its people voted 90% for unifying
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1935 Hitler begins to rearm Germany
Violation of the Treaty of Versailles, but League of Nations fails to stop it
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1936 In March, Germany sends troops into the Rhineland
French unwilling to risk war British encourage appeasement
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1936 In October, Axis powers form – Japan, Italy, and Germany
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1937 In July, Japan takes over much of Eastern China
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1938 In March, Germany occupies Austria, completing the ANSCHLUSS (union) with the Germans there French and British do nothing
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1938 In September at the Munich Conference – Chamberlain believed he could preserve peace by giving into Hitler’s demands (policy of appeasement) Hitler is given the Sudetenland Hitler pledged to respect Czechoslovakian borders
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1939 In March, Hitler takes all of Czechoslovakia
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1939 Italy takes over Albania
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1939 In August, Nazi-Soviet Pact (Non-aggression pact) is signed
Secretly agreed to divide Poland
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1939 September 1 – Hitler invades Poland
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1939 September 3 – France and Great Britain declare war on Germany
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1940 In August, Hitler began an air war against Britain
German planes concentrated on bombing cities during the Battle of Britain The few thousand pilots of the Royal Air Force bravely defended England Prime Minister Winston Churchill said “never… was so much owed by so many to so few”
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1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7
Brings the United States into the war
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