Road to world War II By iCharlie94 Sep 18, 1931 Japan seizes Manchuria Oct 23, 1931 Kai-shek practices appeasement Period: Jan 1, 1933 to Dec 31, 1945 1933-1945 Jan 24, 1933 Japan leaves the League of Nations Jan 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany Mar 8, 1935 Hitler rearms Germany Mar 7, 1936 Germany reoccupies the Rhineland Oct 25, 1936 The Rome-Berlin Axis is Signed Nov 25, 1936 Japan and Germany agree to the anti-cominterm alliance Jul 7, 1937 China engages and begins to fight Japan Dec 13, 1937 Japan captures China's capital Mar 12, 1938 Anschluss Germany annexes Austria!:O Sep 9, 1938 The Munich Conference agreement to take over czechoslovakia Mar 15, 1939 Germany occupies all of czechoslovakia Aug 19, 1939 Nazi-Soviet non agression Pact is signed Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades poland Sep 9, 1940 Japan announces that it wants French Indochina Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor is attacked