Road to World War II - Jake Lee By jake.lee997 Jun 28, 1919 Treaty of Versailles Signed Jul 29, 1921 Hitler Becomes Leader of the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers Party) Jul 18, 1925 Hitler Publishes His Book, 'Mein Kampf' Oct 29, 1929 Stock Market Crash Sep 19, 1931 Japan Invades Manchuria (China) Sep 19, 1931 Japan Invades Manchuria (China) Jan 30, 1933 Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany Sep 15, 1936 German Jews are Stripped of Rights by Nuremburg Race Laws Mar 12, 1938 Germany Invades Austria Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass) Sep 3, 1939 Britain, France, Austria, New Zealand Declare War on Germany