World War II

Chronology
1931 - 1939
 * September 1931 - Japan seizes Manchuria
 * January 30, 1933 - Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
 * March 9, 1935 - Hitler announces a German air force
 * March 16, 1935 - Hitler announces military conscription
 * October 1935 - Mussolini invades Ethiopia
 * March 7, 1936 - Hitler occupies demilitarized Rhineland
 * 1936 - Hitler and Mussolini intervene in the Spanish Civil War
 * October 1936 - Rome-Berlin Axis formed
 * November 1936 - Anti-Comintern Pact (Japan and Germany)
 * July 1937 - Japan invades China
 * March 13, 1938 - Germany annexes Austria
 * September 29, 1938 - Munich Conference: Sudetenland goes to Germany
 * March 1939 - Germany occupies tbe rest of Czechoslovakia
 * August 23, 1939 - German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
 * September 1, 1939 - Germany invades Poland
 * September 3, 1939 - Britain and France declare war on Germany