Japan Expanding Their Empire

  • Japanese army overruns Manchuria

    Japanese army overruns Manchuria

    Japan invaded and took over Manchuria in 1931 because they wanted an empire that was as big as the Western Empire.
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    Japan builds an empire

  • Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

    Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

    On the night of January 30, 1933, the Nazis organized a massive torchlight parade in Berlin to celebrate the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
  • Neutrality Act

    Neutrality Act

    Congress passes the first Neutrality Act banning the sale of arms to countries at war.
  • Italy conquers Ethiopia

    Italy conquers Ethiopia

    Mussolini led this invasion into Ethiopia. He wanted to annex this country into Italy's new colony of East Africa. Although the Italians did invade, the Ethiopians did not surrender.
  • Air Raid on Guernica

    Air Raid on Guernica

    This air raid on the town of Guernica occurred because Hitler wanted to stop people from the Spanish government from retreating. This soon became a target of propaganda against both Hitler and Mussolini.
  • Marco Polo Bridge Incident

    Marco Polo Bridge Incident

    Marco Polo Bridge Incident was a battle between China's National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army. This battle is one of the warfares that led to WWII in the pacific side of the world.
  • Formation of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

    Formation of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

    This alliance between Italy, Germany, and Japan established that these three countries would not interfere with eachother's business and they agreed to fight Soviet communism.
  • Nazi Soviet Pact

    Nazi Soviet Pact

    Hitler made the Nazi Soviet Pact with Stalin. It stated that their two countries, Germany and the Soviet Union, would not go to war with eachother and promised to invade Poland and split it between them.
  • Invasion of Poland

    Invasion of Poland

    Germany invaded Poland by the battleship Schleswig-Holstein. This invasion was considered the first military battle of WWII.
  • Vichy France

    Vichy France

    This was when France signed an armistice with Germany. It said that France would be divided into occupied and unoccupied zones and that Germany would control 3/5s of the country, directly. One of these parts was put under the controlled by the French government at Vichy uner Marshal Henri-Philippe.