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Alex Lambert's Chapter 24 Timeline

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    Alex Lambert's Chapter 24 Timeline

    WWII Beginning to End

  • • The Japanese Army invades Manchuria – [“Manchurian Incident”]

    • The Japanese Army invades Manchuria – [“Manchurian Incident”]
    Seizure of the Manchurian city of Mukden (now Shenyang, China). Responding to Russian pressure from the north and to the increasingly successful unification of China by Chiang Kai-shek, the Japanese garrison in Manchuria used the pretext of an explosion along its railway to occupy Mukden. With reinforcements from the Japanese colony of Korea, its army had occupied all of Manchuria within three months. The Chinese withdrew, and the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo.

  • • Mussolini (Italy) conquers Ethiopia

    • Mussolini (Italy) conquers Ethiopia
    The Second Italo–Abyssinian War (also referred to as the Second Italo-Ethiopian War) was a colonial war that started in October 1935 and ended in May 1936. The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire. The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia and its annexation into the newly created colony of Italian East Africa.

  • • Britain’s Neville Chamberlain and Hitler meet at the Munich Conference

    • Britain’s Neville Chamberlain and Hitler meet at the Munich Conference
    An agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. The Sudetenland were areas along Czech borders, mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans. The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe without the presence of Czechoslovakia. Today, it is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement toward Nazi Germany.

  • • Hitler (Germany) invades Poland, beginning WWII

    • Hitler (Germany) invades Poland, beginning WWII
    An invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the start of World War II in Europe. The invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, and ended on 6 October 1939 with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland.

  • General Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces take control of Madrid (Spain), where he rules until his death in 1975

    General Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces take control of Madrid (Spain), where he rules until his death in 1975
    A Spanish general and head of state of Spain from October 1936 (as a unified nation from 1939 onwards), and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November 1975. He came to power as a prominent member of the far-right Falange movement.