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Time Line of Events Leading to World War II
Time Line of Events Leading to World War II
Germany, Italy, Japan
• Japan invades Manchuria.
1931
United States, Britain,
France, Soviet Union
1932
• Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
1933
• Stalin issues second 5-Year Plan.
• Germany withdraws from League of Nations.
• Germany begins to rearm.
1934
• Italy invades Ethiopia.
• Nuremberg Laws strip German
1935
• U.S. passes Neutrality Act.
Jews of rights and property.
• Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
• Germany and Italy form Axis.
1936
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• Japan attacks China again.
1937
• Germany occupies
Austria.
• Germany takes the Sudetenland.
1938
• Soviet Union signs nonaggression
• Germany takes Czechoslovakia.
pact with Germany.
• Italy invades Albania.
• Germany signs nonaggression pact with Soviet Union.
• Germany attacks Poland.
1939
• Soviet Union attacks Poland.
• Soviet Union attacks Finland.
• Holocaust begins.
• U.S. begins military draft.
• Italy declares war on Britain and France.
• Japan, Germany, and Italy sign pact.
• Germany and Italy
1940
invade France.
• Lend-Lease Act passes.
• Battle of Britain.
• Germany invades Soviet Union.
• Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
• Battle of Britain.
• Soviet Union is attacked.
1941
• Pearl Harbor is attacked.
• US declares war on Japan,
Germany, and Italy.