Timeline: holocaust timeline | Timetoast

Period: Sep 18, 1931 to Sep 18, 1931

1931

japan invades Manchuria beginning hostilities in the far east
Period: Oct 2, 1935 to May 1, 1936

1935 - 1936

Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia.
Period: Nov 25, 1936 to Nov 25, 1936

1936

Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement.
Period: Jul 7, 1937 to Jul 7, 1937

1937

Japan invades China
Period: Apr 11, 1938 to Apr 13, 1938

1938

Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss.
Period: Sep 27, 1939 to Sep 29, 1939

1939

Warsaw surrenders on September 27. The Polish government flees into exile via Romania. Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them.