CHAPTER 24, WORLD WAR II, THE ROAD TO WAR

By seantaylor23
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    World War II: The Road to War

    the rise of hitler and the beginning of the WWII

  • Army invades Manchuria – [“Manchurian Incident”]

    Army invades Manchuria – [“Manchurian Incident”]
    In September 1931, a Japanese army stationed in Manchuria took matters into its own hands. Claiming that Chinese soldiers had tried to blow up a railway line, they captured several cities in southern Manchuria. Chinese troops withdrew from the area. Japan's civilian government tried but failed to prevent the army from taking further action. By February 1932, the army had seized all of Manchuria. World leaders and most Japanese expressed shock at what came to be called the Manchurian Incident.

  • Mussolini (Italy) conquers Ethiopia

    Mussolini (Italy) conquers Ethiopia
    In October 1935, Mussolini put those words into practice by invading the independent African kingdom of Ethiopia. The Ethiopians resisted fiercely, but the large Italian army, using warplanes and poison gas, overpowered the Ethiopian forces. By May 1936, Ethiopia's emperor had fled to England and the capital, Addis Ababa, was in Italian hands.

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

    Britain’s Neville Chamberlain and Hitler meet at the Munich Conference
    Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister, met with Hitler twice to try to resolve the issue. Chamberlain pursued a policy of appeasement, or giving in to a competitor's demands in order to keep the peace. Hitler kept increasing his demands, so Chamberlain and the French president, Édouard Daladier, met with Hitler and Mussolini in Munich, Germany, in September 1938.

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

    In March 1939, the Nationalist army finally took the Spanish capital of Madrid and ended the civil war. Franco kept firm control of the government after the war and ruled Spain until his death in 1975

  • Hitler (Germany) invades Poland, beginning WWII

    Hitler (Germany) invades Poland, beginning WWII
    After Hitler took Czechoslovakia, British and French leaders warned him that any further German expansion would risk war. On March 31, 1939, they formally pledged their support to Poland, agreeing to come to its aid if Germany invaded. Hitler, however, did not believe their warning.