Transcript Axis Aggression

Axis Aggression
In the decade prior to the outbreak of WW2,
Japan, Italy, and Germany engaged in one act of
aggression after another without any effective
opposition.
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1931 - Japan invades Manchuria
1933 – Germany withdraws from the League of
Nations
1935 – Germany reintroduce the draft
1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia
1936 – Italy, Germany & Japan sign the Axis Pact
1936 – Germany remilitarizes the Rhineland
1936 – Germany & Italy support Franco in the
Spanish Civil War while only the Soviets support
the democratically elected Spanish Government
1937 – Japan invades China proper
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1938 – Anschluss, annexation of Austria by
Germany
1938 – Germany seizes the Sudetenland by way of
the Munich Conference – a few months later all
of Czechoslovakia is seized
1939 – Italy invades Albania
1939 – German/Soviet Nonaggression Pact
1939 – Germany invades Poland
September 3, 1939 Britain and France declare war