World War II

Japan signs treaty with China

Feb 6, 1922

Signed treaty to respect China's borders

Japan signs Kellogg-Briand pact

Aug 27, 1928

Great Depression occurs

Oct 29, 1929

Japan army seizes Manchuria

Sep 19, 1931

Japan withdraws from League of Nations

Feb 24, 1933

Germany disregards Treaty of Versailles

Mar 16, 1935

Hitler announces Germany will not obey the Treaty.

US pass Neutrality Acts

Aug 31, 1935

Invasion of Ethiopia

Oct 3, 1935

Invasion is ordered by Mussolini

Germany moves into Rhineland

Mar 7, 1936

Spanish Civil War begins

Jul 18, 1936

Italy and Germany make an alliance

Oct 15, 1936

Germany makes agreement with Japan

Nov 25, 1936

Japan invades China

Jul 7, 1937

Full scale war between Japan and China

Hitler sends an army into Austria.

Mar 7, 1938

Hitler sends army to Austria and annexed it.

Hitler demands for Sudtenland be given to Germany

Sep 23, 1938

Munich Conference

Sep 29, 1938

Germany invades Czechoslovakia

Mar 15, 1939

Franco becomes dictator of France

Apr 1, 1939

Italy invades Albania

Apr 7, 1939

Germany & Russia sign non-aggression pact

Aug 23, 1939

Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin

Germany attacks Poland

Sep 1, 1939

France and Great Britain declare on Germany

Sep 3, 1939

USSR invades eastern Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland

Sep 17, 1939

Finns surrender to Stalin

Mar 13, 1940

Germany inades Denmark & Norway

Apr 9, 1940

Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg

May 10, 1940

Germany takes Paris

Jun 14, 1940

French leaders surrender to Germany

Jun 22, 1940

Battle of Britain

Sep 13, 1940

Italy invades Egypt

Sep 15, 1940

Hitler sends Rommel to help Italian troops in Egypt

Mar 14, 1941

Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece

Apr 14, 1941

German tanks and aircrafts invade Soviet Union

Jun 14, 1941

Germany U-boat sinks US destroyer

Sep 4, 1941

German forces put Leningrad under siege

Sep 8, 1941

Germans try to take Moscow

Dec 1, 1941