Road to World War 2 By Devinisawesome Period: Sep 1, 1930 to Jan 1, 1942 Germany Period: Sep 1, 1930 to Jun 1, 1942 Japan Sep 1, 1931 Japan Siezes Manchuria Jan 1, 1932 Kai-shek practices Appeasement. (All of 1932) Jan 30, 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany Feb 24, 1933 Japan Leaves the League of Nations Mar 9, 1933 Hitler rearms Germany (1933) Mar 1, 1936 Germany Reoccupies the Rhineland Oct 25, 1936 The Rome-Berlin Axis is signed Nov 25, 1936 Japan and Germany Agree to the Anti-Comintern Alliance Jan 1, 1937 China Engages and Begins to Fight Japan (1937) Nov 9, 1937 Japan Captures China's Capital Mar 12, 1938 Anschuluss Sep 30, 1938 The Munich Conference Mar 16, 1939 Germany Occupies all of Czechoslovakia Aug 14, 1939 Nazi-Soviet Nonagression pact is Signed Sep 1, 1939 Germany Invades Poland Sep 1, 1939 World War 2 Begins Sep 9, 1940 Japan Announces that it wants French Indochina Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor