Events leading up to WWII

Treaty of Versailles

Mar 17, 1919

peace treaty that brought World World I to an end and ended the war between Germany and the Allied powers.

Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party

Mar 17, 1921

Joseph Stalin becomes the leader in Russia

Mar 17, 1924

Japan invades Manchuria

Mar 17, 1931

Manchuria which is in China's eastern seaboard was attacked by Japan.

Hitler is names Chancellor of Germany

Mar 17, 1933

Nazis begin roundup of Jews

Mar 17, 1933

Nazis started making concentration camps and getting the Jews.

Neutrality Act passed by the U.S.

Mar 17, 1935

Prohibited the export of implements of war, ammunition, and arms. Was for the U.S. to foreign nations.

Italian Army invades Ethiopia

Mar 17, 1935

Mussolini wanted to expand land and to boost the Italian prestige.

Hitler sends troops to Rhineland

Mar 17, 1936

Violating the Treaty of Versailles and sends German military to Rhineland.

Japan attacks Nanjing, China

Mar 17, 1937

Japanese Army murdered thousands of people and Nanking Massacre was what they called it and Nanking was the name of the area before.

Munich Pact signed

Mar 17, 1938

Hitler and the prime ministers France and England sign the pact and it is an agreement to avert the war but Czechoslovakia was given away to Germany.

Germany incorporated Austria into the Anschluss

Mar 17, 1938

Hitler announces the union between Germany and Austria.

Hitler invades Poland

Mar 17, 1939

Nazi-Soviet Pact signed

Mar 17, 1939

the two countries had agreed to not go to war with each other for the next 10 years.

Great Britain and France declare war on Germany

Mar 17, 1939

Germany and Italy sign a treaty of cooperation and Axis born

Mar 17, 1940

An agreement between Germany, Japan, and Italy.