Causes of WW2

End of WW1

Nov 11, 1918

Causes of WW2

Period: Nov 11, 1918 to Sep 30, 1939

Treaty of Versailles signed

Jun 28, 1919

Took Germany out of the League of Nations

Jan 1, 1933

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Began rearming Germany

Jan 1, 1933

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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

Tried to take over Austria but was prevented by Mussolini

Jan 1, 1934

Held massive rearmament rally in Germany

Jan 1, 1935

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Reintroduced conscription in Germany

Jan 1, 1936

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Remilitarisation of the Rhineland

Mar 1, 1936

Sent Germany troops into the Rhineland

Mar 7, 1936

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Made an anti-Communist alliance with Japan

Nov 25, 1936

Tried out Germany's new weapons in the Spanish Civil War

Jan 1, 1937

Made an anti-Communist alliance with Italy

Nov 6, 1937

Took over Austria

Jan 1, 1938

Took over the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia

Oct 10, 1938

Invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia

Mar 16, 1939

Invaded Poland

Sep 22, 1939