H.W.H. Pre-World War II Timeline

Nine Power Treaty

Jan 1, 1922

Japan signs treaty with China to respect China's borders.

World War II

Period: Jan 1, 1922 to Oct 2, 1941

A timeline spanning the events occuring during WWII.

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Jan 1, 1928

Japan signs Kellog-Briand Pact renouncing war.

Great Depressions Strikes Japan

Jan 1, 1929

Japan seizes Manchuria

Sep 1, 1931

Japan leaves League of Nations

Jan 1, 1933

U.S. Passes Neutrality Acts

Jan 1, 1935

Hitler Announcement

Mar 1, 1935

Disobeys Treaty of Versailles

Mussolini invades Ethiopia

Oct 1, 1935

Germans take the Rhineland

Mar 7, 1936

Spanish Civil War

Jul 1, 1936

Army leaders join Franco, causing civil war in Spain.

Italy-Germany Alliance

Oct 1, 1936

Battle of Madrid

Nov 1, 1936

Japan invades China

Jul 1, 1937

Full scale war

Germany annexes Austria

Mar 1, 1938

Germany takes Sudetenland

Sep 1, 1938

Munich Conference

Sep 1, 1938

Franco becomes Spain's fascist dictator

Jan 1, 1939

Germany invades Czechoslovakia

Mar 1, 1939

Italy invades Albania

Apr 1, 1939

Stalin and Hitler

Aug 23, 1939

They sign a non-agression pact

Poland Blitzkrieg'd

Sep 1, 1939

France and Britain

Sep 3, 1939

They declare war on Germany.

Soviet Union Strikes

Sep 17, 1939

Invade eastern Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland.

Finns surrender to Stalin

Mar 1, 1940

Hitler invades Denmark & Norway

Apr 1, 1940

Germany Strikes

May 1, 1940

Invades Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway.

Germany takes Paris

Jun 14, 1940

French surrender

Jun 22, 1940

Bombing of London begins

Sep 1, 1940

Luftwaffe bomb Britain

Sep 7, 1940

(Battle of Britain)

Rommel Helps Italy in Egypt

Mar 1, 1941

Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece

Apr 1, 1941

Hitler invades Soviet Union

Jun 1, 1941

German U-boats

Sep 4, 1941

Attack on a United States destroyer

Germans siege Leningrad

Sep 8, 1941

Germans try to take Moscow

Oct 2, 1941