Road to World War II

  • Italian invasion of Ethiopia

    Benito Mussolini, the Fascist leader of Italy, had adopted Adolf Hitler's plans to expand. Mussolini followed this policy when he invaded Ethiopia . Mussolini claimed that his policies of expansion were not different from that of other colonial powers in Africa.
  • German re-occupation of the Rhineland

    German military forces entered the Rhineland. To help their growth and unification of bringing german peple together.
  • German Annexation of Austria

    German troops invaded Austria to annex the Germna speakeing people for the third reich
  • Munich Conference

    was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders
  • German invasion of the Sudetenland

    Nazi Germany formally took possession of the Sudetenland, part of Czechoslovakia whose majority population was of German ancestery So Hitler invaded then because he wanted to join all the German speaking people together
  • German invasion of Poland

    On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.
  • Beginning of WWII

    the beginging of WW11 was just before Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland thats what marked t­he beginning of World War II
  • Signing of the Tripartite pact

    The Signinf of the Tripartite pact was an agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940.