Road to World War II

Hitler reoccupies the Rhineland

Mar 7, 1936

Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler, violates the treaty of Versailles and the locarno pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland.

Incoropration of Austria

Mar 13, 1938

Germany Incoroprates Austria in the Anschluss

annexation of the Sudetenland

Sep 15, 1938

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain meets with Adolf Hitler in the berghof in Germany. Chamberlain agrees to Hitler's demand to annex the Sudetenland.

nonaggression agreement

Aug 23, 1939

Nazi Germany and Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement and a secret codicil dividing eastern Europe into spheres of influence

World War II began

Sep 1, 1939

Germany invade poland, initiating World War II in Europe

Powers

Sep 1, 1939

Allied Powers:
United States, Great Britain, France, China
Axis Powers:
Germany, Italy, Japan

German-Soviet treaty of friendship

Sep 28, 1939

They agree on 4th partition of Poland and gives Lithunia to USSR.

German invasion of Western Europe

May 10, 1940

Luxembourg is occupied.

The French sign the Armstice

Jun 22, 1940

Frence falls to Nazi Germany; France disarms

Invasion of the Soviet Union

Jun 22, 1941

Under the codename Operation "Barbarossa" Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

Japn bombs Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Japan attacks to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA