Road 2 WWI Timeline

  • Italian invasion of Ethiopia

    The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire
  • German reoccupation of the Rhineland

    German reoccupation of the Rhineland
    This action was directly against the Treaty of Versailles which had laid out the terms which the defeated Germany had accepted.
  • German invasion of Poland

    German invasion of Poland
    in Germany, was a joint invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe
  • Geman Annexation of Austria

    Geman Annexation of Austria
    German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.
  • German invasion of the Sudetenland

    German invasion of the Sudetenland
    Germany invaded Sudetenland because Hitler knew many Germans lived there,and so he can just simply have their land. The Sudetenland was valuable because it contained virtually all of Czechoslovakia's defenses,which atrracked Hitlers attention.It is mountainous, whereas most of the rest of Czechoslovakia is relatively flat.
  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference
    was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined.
  • Beginning of WWII

    was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though related conflicts began earlier.
  • Signing of the Tripartite pact

    Signing of the Tripartite pact
    was an agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by, respectively, Adolf Hitler, Galeazzo Ciano and Saburō Kurusu.