Unit VIII: AP European By tmgarrison Period: May 9, 1919 to May 9, 1924 French policy of coersion in the Rhineland May 9, 1924 France's Cartel of the Left: Lenin dies in Soviet Union May 9, 1926 Mussolini establishes Fascism in Italy May 9, 1929 Stock Market crash in US; Stalin becomes dictator of Soviet Union May 9, 1931 Japan invades Manchuria May 9, 1933 New Deal begins in US; Hitler becomes Nazi dictator of Germany May 9, 1936 Collapse of League of Nations; Germany occupies Rhineland; Rome-Berlin Axis Treaty Period: May 9, 1936 to May 9, 1939 Spanish Civil War May 9, 1937 Japan invades China May 9, 1938 Anschluss; Munich Conference; Germany takes Sudetenland May 9, 1939 Germany invades Czechoslovakia; Hitler-Stalin Pact; Germany invades Poland starting World War II May 9, 1940 Western Europe falls to Blitzkrieg; Battle of Britain begins May 9, 1941 New Order/Final Solution begin in Germany; Japan attacks Pearl Harbor May 9, 1944 Normandy invasion; Battle of the Bulge May 9, 1945 Germany surrneders; Atomic bombs dropped on Japan; Japan surrenders