Marissa Cook's Chapter 24 timeline

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    Marissa Cook's Chapter 24 Timeline

  • The Japanese Army invades Manchuria – [“Manchurian Incident”].

    when Manchuria was invaded by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukoku, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II.

  • Mussolini (Italy) conquers Ethiopia.

    Italy went into war with two other countries and Mussolini became power in 1936 when Italy went into war.

  • Britain’s Neville Chamberlain and Hitler meet at the Munich Conference.

    The Battle of Madrid in November 1938 was the most concentrated fighting in the city, when the Nationalists made their most determined attempt to take Madrid.

  • Hitler (Germany) invades Poland, beginning WWII.

    The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.
    German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered

  • General Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces take control of Madrid (Spain), where he rules until his death in 1975.

    despite the Cuban armed forces not being greatly involved in World War II, had suggested a joint U.S.-Latin American assault on Spain in order to overthrow the Franco regime