World War II

  • Mussolini's fascists march to the city of Rome

  • Hitler is arrested for treason in the Beer Hall Putsch

  • Japan invades Manchuria

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

  • Mussolini invades Ethiopia

  • America signs the first Neutrality Act

  • Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland

  • Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia appeals to the League of Nations

  • Spanish Civil War begins

  • Germany and Italy send troops to fight in the Spanish Civil War

  • Hitler annexes Austria (Anschless)

  • Hitler occupies the Sudetenland

  • The Munich conference gives control of Czechoslovakia to Germany

  • Spanish Civil War ends

  • Hitler and Stalin sign a nonaggression pact

  • Hitler invades Poland

  • Germany begins its invasion of France

  • France surrenders to Germany

  • The Battle of Britain (air raids on London) begins

  • The Battle of Britain ends