Japan

1922 1930 1933

Military leaders Japan leaves

Signs international treaty to
respect China's orders
1928 win control-of
1931 league of
1937
Japan nations

Several
Sign kellog-briand Japanese army Chinese

pact renouncing war seizes cities falls

Manchuria to Japan

Italy

Mussolini orders

massive invasion of

18905 Ethiopia
1936

Rome -Berlin axis

Italy attempted to
invade Ethiopia. 1935 1938

FAILURE.
Munich conference

proposed by Mussolini

Germany

“Hitler sent his army into Austria and

Germany made an agreement

with Japan. Germany, Italy, and
annexed it. France and Britain
ignored their pledge to protect

Japan became known as Axis Austrian independence. Germany and Russia

powers
never planned to attack
each other

1935 1936 1938 1939

1936 1937 1938

Hitler announced that he
won’t obey the Versailles
German troops move
Hitler announced to his
into Rhineland.
treaty restrictions
Stunned, the French
were unwilling to risk a
war
September hitler demand
sudentenland he given to
advisers his plans to absorb
Germany. Munich
Austria and Czechoslovakia conference.
into the Third Reich or
German Empire