The Path To War

1931

Japan Invades Manchuria – “The Rape Of Nanking”

1934

August 1934: Hitler becomes Fuhrer.

1935

Hitler violates Treaty of Versailles by rearming Germany

October 1935: Mussolini invades Ethiopia

1936

March 1936: The Nazis begin their aggression

by occupying the Rhineland.

1937

July 1937: Japan

sweeps into China.

1938

March 1938: The Nazis march into Austria after its annexation.

Spring 1938: Immediately after the Austrian Anschluss, Hitler demands the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.

September 1938: Hitler meets with Neville Chamberlain, British prime minister, to discuss the future of Czechoslovakia at the Munich Conference.

Chamberlain declares “peace in our time.”

Munich was the height of appeasement.

“ Goose-stepping over the spineless.”

Britain begins to rearm.

October 1938:Hitler demands his next target,the Danzig Corridorin Poland.

1939

March 1939: Britain announces it will defend Poland if Germany invades.

Poland refuses German demands.

August 1939: Nazi-Soviet Pact

September 1939: German Blitzkrieg crushes the Poles. World War II has begun.