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  Japan signs treaty with Cina to respect China's borders
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  Japan signs Kellog-Braind Pact renouncing war
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  Great depression
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  Japanese army seized Manchuria
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  Japan withdraws from League Of Nations
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  Hitler announces Germany will not obey Treaty Of Versailles
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  U.S. begins passing the Neutrality Acts
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  Mussoliniordered a massive invasion of Ethiopia
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  German troops moved to Rhineland
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  Spanish civil war begins
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  Italy and Germany make an alliance
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  Germany made an agreement and the axis powers are formed
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  Japan invades China; full-scale war between Japan and China
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  Germany annexes Austria
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  Germany takes Sudetenland
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  Munich Conference
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  Germany invades Czechoslovakia
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  Italy invades Albania
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  Leaders signed a nonaggression Pact
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  Stalin and Hitler sign a nonaggression Pact
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  Germany takes Czechosiovakia
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  Hitler quickly moved ahead with plans to conquer poland
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  France and Great britain declared war on Germany
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  Soviet union invades eastern Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland.
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  Stalon forced finns to surrender
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  Germany suprise invation of denmark.
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  Germany invades Netherland, Belgium, and Luxembourg
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  Paris had fallen to the Germans
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  France surrenders
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  Germany Luftwaffe begins bombing of british cities (Battle of Britain)
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  Germany focuses on london to break British Moral
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  Hitler sends Rommel to help Italian troops in Egypt
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  Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece
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  Hitler invades Soviet Union
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  Germany u-boats attack U.S. destroyer
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  German forces put Leningrad under seige
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  Germans try to take Moscow