Honors World History By honors world history Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Oct 1, 1949 Ch.31&32 Timeline Jan 1, 1922 Japan signs treaty with China to respect China's borders Jan 1, 1928 Japan signs Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing war Jan 1, 1929 Great Depression in Japan Sep 1, 1931 Japanese army seized Manchuria Jan 1, 1933 Japan withdraws from League of Nations Jan 1, 1935 U.S. begins passing the Neutrality Acts Mar 1, 1935 Hitler announces Germany will not obey Treaty of Versailles Oct 12, 1935 Mussolini ordered massive invasion of Ethiopia Jul 1, 1936 Spanish civil war Oct 1, 1936 Italy and Germany make an alliance Nov 1, 1936 Germany made an agreement with Japan, forms Axis Powers Jul 1, 1937 Japan invades China, full-scale war between China and Japan Mar 1, 1938 Hitler annexes Austria Mar 1, 1938 Hitler demands that Sudetenland be given to Germany Sep 29, 1938 Munich Conference Jan 1, 1939 Republican Resistance collapsed Mar 1, 1939 Germany invaes Czechoslovakia Apr 1, 1939 Italy invades Albania Aug 1, 1939 Germany and Russia sign a nonagression pact Sep 1, 1939 Germany attacks Poland Sep 1, 1939 Soviet Union invades eastern Poland,Lithuania,Latvia,Estonia,Finland Sep 3, 1939 France and Britain declare war on Germany Apr 1, 1940 Germany invades Norway and Denmark May 1, 1940 Germany invades neetherlands Jun 14, 1940 Germans take Paris Jun 22, 1940 French leaders surrender Sep 1, 1940 Battle of Britain, Germany Luftwaffe begins bombing of British cities Sep 1, 1940 Italy invades Egypt and seizes Suez Canal Mar 1, 1941 Hitler sends Rommel to help Italian troops in Egypt Apr 1, 1941 Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece Jun 1, 1941 Hilter begins his plan to invade the Soviet Union Sep 4, 1941 Germany sinks U.S. Destroyer Sep 8, 1941 German forces Leningrad under siege Oct 1, 1941 Germans try to take Moscow Mar 1, 1949 Stakin forces Finns to surrender
