World War 2 By zwerezero1437 Period: Jan 1, 1930 to Dec 1, 1945 World War II May 2, 1930 Nazis had sent thousands of Jewish people to concentration camps May 1, 1931 Japan seized Manchuria May 2, 1935 Italy invades Ethiopia May 2, 1936 Hitler sends troops to boarder France May 2, 1936 Francisco Franco leads a revolt that touched off a bloody civil war May 2, 1936 Italy conqures Ethiopia Apr 2, 1937 German air raid in a small spanish town May 2, 1937 Japanese armies overran much of eastern China Mar 2, 1938 Hitler was ready to engineer the Anscluss Sep 2, 1938 British and French leaders again chose appeasment at the Munich Conference May 2, 1939 Franco created a fascist dictatorship May 2, 1939 Nazis forced Jews into Poland and other countries to live in ghettos Aug 2, 1939 Hitler broke his promises and gobbled up the rest of Czechoslovakia Sep 1, 1939 German forces invaded Poland Sep 1, 1939 Nazi forces storm into Poland Apr 2, 1940 Hitler launches a blitxkrieg against Norway and Denmark Jun 22, 1940 Hitler forced the French to sign the surrender documents in the same railroad car that ended World War I Aug 1, 1940 German bombers begin a daily bombardment of England's southern coast Sep 7, 1940 German bombers first appear over London Oct 2, 1940 Italian forces invaded Greece May 2, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor