Major Events of World War II

1. Italy

1.1. Mussolini invades and conquers Ethiopia in 1936, and the league of nation is not able to stop them

2. Germany

2.1. Economic problems caused by the reparations after WWI

2.2. Hitler was made chancellor of Germany in1933

2.3. Hitler violates Treaty of Versailles by sending troops into Rhineland in 1936

2.4. Hitler enters into the Nazi-Soviet pact with Stalin

2.5. Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939; France and Britain declare war on Germany

3. Japan

3.1. seized Manchuria in 1931 to expand empire

3.2. started Second Sino-Chinese war after invading China in 1937