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Tyrus DeWitt's Chapter 24 Timeline
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• The Japanese Army invades Manchuria – [“Manchurian Incident”].
This was an attack made by the Japanese Army without the congress' consult. Through making this attack Japan had control over a little part of China which later lead to more war. -
Mussolini (Italy) conquers Ethiopia.
Mussolini invaded the independent African kingdom of Ethiopia. The Ethiopians resisted fiercely, but the large Italian army, using warplanes and poison gas, overpowered the Ethiopian forces. By May 1936, Ethiopia's emperor had fled to England and the capital, Addis Ababa, was in Italian hands. -
• Britain’s Neville Chamberlain and Hitler meet at the Munich Conference
Neville Chamberlain and Htler meet to make a pact for Hitler not to invade Czechoslovakia, but Hitler wanted to take over the Sudetenland. Neville let him have this because he did not want to go to war with Germany. -
General Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces take control of Madrid (Spain), where he rules until his death in 1975.
In March 1939, the Nationalist army finally took the Spanish capital of Madrid and ended the civil war. Franco kept firm control of the government after the war and ruled Spain until his death in 1975. -
Hitler (Germany) invades Poland, beginning WWII.
It took Hitler and his Nazis less than a month to overrun Poland. He used the newly adopted technique of "blitzkrieg" or lighting war to accomplish this task. It is a three-pronged attack with planes bombing first, follwed by tanks and artillery next, and finally ground troops attack.