Rachel Addlespurger Chapter 24 Timeline

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    Rachel Addlespurger's Chapter 24 Timeline

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

    The Japanese Army invades Manchuria – [“Manchurian Incident”].
    Japan was lacking the land needed to feed its rising population and the raw materials and markets needed to power the Japanese economy. Japan saw the acquistition of Manchuria as a solution to these problems. In September 1931, a Japanese army stationed in Manchuria took matters into its own hands. Claiming that Chinese soldiers tried to blow up a railway line, they captured several cities in southern Manchuria. By Febuary 1932, the army had seized all of Manchuria.

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

    Britain’s Neville Chamberlain and Hitler meet at the Munich Conference.
    Neville Chamberlain wanted to met with HItler to resolve the issue of Hitler wanting Sudetenland. He pursued a policy of appeasement with Hitler. But Hitler kept increasing his demands so Chamberlain descided to met with Hitler again at the Munich Conference

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

    General Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces take control of Madrid (Spain), where he rules until his death in 1975.
    The Nationalist army took the Spanish capital of Madrid and ended the Spanish civil war between the Nationalists and the Republicans. Franco kept a firm control of the government after the war and ruled Spain until his death in 1975.

  • Hitler (Germany) invades Poland, beginning WWII.

    Hitler (Germany) invades Poland, beginning WWII.
    It took Hitler and his nazis less than a month to overrun Poland,he used the newly adopted technique of Blitzkriek or lightning war to accomplish this task, Itsa 3 pronged attack w/planes bombings first followed bytanksand artillerynext, and finally ground troops attack.

  • Mussolini (Italy) conquers Ethiopia.

    Mussolini (Italy) conquers Ethiopia.
    In october 1935, Mussolini invaded the independent African kingdom of Ethiopia. The Ethiopians resisted, but the large Italian army, using warplanes and poison gas, overpowered the Ethiopian forces. By May, 1936, Ethiopia's emperor fled to England and the capital, Addis Ababa, was in Italian hands.