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Mussolini conquers Ethiopia
Musilini spent years consolodating power within Italy and building up the Italian economy. However, he always had dreams of restoring Italy to a major power, the likes of the Holy Roman Empire. In the 1930's he set his sights on Ethiopia and Italy quickly overpowered the Abyssinian forces. Thanks to their vastly superior airpower Italian forces plowed through to the Capital where Emperor Halie Selassie was forced to flee. Ethiopia was then declared a part of Italian East Africa. -
Japanese army invadeds Manchuria
In 1931, the Japanese Kwangtung Army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria in an event commonly known as the Manchurian Incident. Essentially, this was an attempt by the Japanese Empire to gain control over the whole province, in order to eventually encompass all of East Asia. -
Britain's Neville chamberlain and hitler meet
The meeting took place in Munich.To avoid war and to avoid an alliance with Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union, Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier agreed that Germany could have Sudetenland. Hitler promised not to have any more demands in Europe. On September 29th, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier and Benito Mussolini signed the Munich Agreement which gave the Sudetenland to Germany. -
Genereal Francisco force take control of Madrid
It was a big battle between the Republicans and Nationalists. The Soviet Union sent arms and supplies to the Republicans.In March 1939, the Nationalist army took the Spanish capital of Madrid and ended the civil war. Franco kept control of the government after the war and ruled Spain until he died in 1975. -
Hitler invades poland beginning of world war II
One of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934
