Aggression in Europe and Asia, 1930-1939

  • Japan Invades Munchuria

    Japan Invades Munchuria

    It was part of the second Sino-Japanese War. Invasion came after the Mukden Incident, a staged event by rogue Japanese military personsel.
  • Italy Attacks Ethiopia

    Italy Attacks Ethiopia

    Part of the second Italo-Ethiopian War. Exposed weaknesses in The League of Nations.
  • Germany Occupies Rhineland

    Germany Occupies Rhineland

    Violated Treaty of Versailles by Hitler. Purpose to gain more territory.
  • Japan Invades China

    Japan Invades China

    Occupied Munchuria until end of WWI. After taking control they formed it into a puppet state called Munchukuo.
  • Germany Annexes Austria

    Germany Annexes Austria

    German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany.
  • Germany Takes Sudetenland

    Germany Takes Sudetenland

    The Sudetenland is the German name to refer to those northern, southwest, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by German speakers. Began with the Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions.
  • Germany Seizes Czechoslovakia

    Germany Seizes Czechoslovakia

    Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact, which sealed the fate of Czechoslovakia. It handed Czechoslovakia over to Germany with peace.
  • Italy Conquers Albania

    Italy Conquers Albania

    Result of the imperialist policies of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Ruler, King Zog I, forced into exile and the country was made part of the Italian Empire.