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Washington Naval Conference
1921-1922
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1931
London Naval Conference
1930
Geneva Disarmament Conference
1932-1934
Germany withdrew from the Geneva Disarmament Conference and League of Nations
October 1933
Hitler announced that he reintroduced conscription and re-established the Luftwaffe
1935
Formation of ‘the Stress Front’
April 1935
France started to build the Maginot Line
1929
Attempt at Anschluss
1934
Saarland plebiscite
13 January 1935
German troops entered the Rhineland
March 7 1936
Hitler instructed Goring that the army must be operational and the economy fit for war within four years
October 1936
Hitler met with military chiefs to outline his plan to acquire Lebensraum
5 November 1937
Spanish Civil War
1936-1939
Spanish city of Guernica was heavily bombed by German planes
1937
Rome-Berlin Axis
1936
Anti-Comintern Pact between Germany and Japan
1936
Mussolini joined the Anti-Comintern Pact
1937
Rome-Tokyo-Berlin Axis
1937
Hitler summoned Schuschnigg to force him to give Austrian Nazis a considerable share in government
12 February 1938
Anschluss proclaimed
13 March 1938
Beginning of the appeasement policy
1937
Sudeten German Party began to riot and demand independence for the Sudetenland
April 1938
Czech Premier Benes agreed to self-government for the Sudetenlanders
5 September 1938
Munich Conference
29 September 1938
German troops marched into the Sudetenland
1 October 1938
Germany took Bohemia and Moravia in Czechoslovakia
by 15 March 1939
British and French appeasement ended
By the end of 1938
‘Pact of Steel’ between Hitler and Mussolini
May 1939
Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact revealed to the world
August 1939
Britain and France pledged to help Poland if it was attacked
31 March 1939
Hitler ordered the Germany army to be ready to invade Poland by 1 September 1939
March 1939
German troops invaded Poland
1 September 1939
Britain and France declared war on Germany
3 September 1939
