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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler invades Poland & claimed it as a defensive action. France & Britain were not convinced & declared War on Germany , starting WW ll.
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The Japanese army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria & the reason was for the Japanese Empire to gain control over the whole province , in order to eventually encompass all of East Asia.
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Japan withdrew from the League Of Nations & afterwards , the LON had adopted a report blaming Japan for the events in Manchuria .
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The Neutrality Acts were laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars. They were based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies.
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On March 12th , the German troops marched into Austra to annex the German speaking nation for the 3rd Reich.
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The leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations.
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On January 1939, negotiations between Germany and Poland broke down. Hitler—intent on war against Poland—needed to eliminate Czechoslovakia first. He scheduled a German invasion of Bohemia and Moravia for the morning of 15 March.
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Shortly before World War II broke out in Europe–enemies Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
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On this day in 1940, the Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which will last three and a half months, begins.
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Germany announced on Oct. 14, 1933 , the withdrawal from the League of Nations and the World Disarmament Conference