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Japan signs treaty with China to respect China's borders
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Japan signs Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing war
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The Great Depression hits Japan
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The Japanese army siezes Manchuria
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Japan withdraws from League of Nations
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U.S. begins passing the Neutrality Acts
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Hitler anounces Germany will not obey the Treaty of Versailles
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Mussolini invades Ethiopia
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German troops move into Rhineland
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Spain has a civil war
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Italy and Germany form an alliance
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Japan invades China; full-scale war between Japan and China
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Hitler takes Austria and annexes it
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Hitler demands Sudentenland for Germany
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Munich Conference
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Reublican resistance collapses and Germany + Soviet Union invades Poland
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Germany invades Czechoslovakia
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Italy invades Albania
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Germany and Soviet Union sign nonagression pact
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Hitler surprises Poland with attack
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France and Britain declare war on Germany
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Soviet Union invades eastern Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland
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Finland surrenders to Stalin
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Hitler invades Denmark and Norway
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Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg
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Germany takes Paris
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French surrender to Germany
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Germany Luftwaffe begins bombing of British cities (Battle of Britain)
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Mussolini takes North Africa
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Hitler sends Rommel to help Italian troops in Egypt
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Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece
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Germans invade Soviet Union
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German U-boat fires on U.S. Destroyer
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German forces put Leningrad under siege
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Germans try to take Moscow
