Steps Toward War 1931-1939(MUST KNOW ORDER) - MWH

1931

Japan Invaded Manchuria

1932

Nazis become the largest party in the Reichstag

Jan. 1933

Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany

Mar. 1933

Reichstag passes the enabling act, granting Hitler absolute dictatorial power

Oct. 1933

Germany withdrawls from the league of nations(member since 1926)

1935

Nuremburg laws deprive Jews of all rights of citizenship

Mar. 1935(VTOV)

Hitler announces German Rearmament

June 1935(VTOV)

Anglo-German naval agreement is signed

Oct. 1935

Mussolini invades Ethiopia and receives Hitler’s support

Mar. 1936(VTOV)

German armies move unopposed into the demilitarized Rhineland

July 1936

Civil war breaks out in Spain

1937

Japan invades China, rome-berlin axis in effect

Mar.1938(VTOV)

Germany invades Austria(Anschuluss- Germany and Italy United)

Sept.1938

Munich Conference: Britain and France agree to German Seizure of the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia

Mar. 1939

Germany occupies the rest of Czechoslovakia: appeasement(aimed at avoiding war against Germany and Hitler) end in Great Britain.

Aug.1939

Nazi-Soviet Non aggression pact(agreement to split Poland)

Sept. 1, 1939(MUST KNOW DATE)

Germany Invaded Poland

Sept.3, 1939(MUST KNOW DATE)

Britain and France declare war on Germany