Events leading to the Second World War

1931 Japanese soldiers attacked Shenyang in Manchuria in

northeast China.

1935 Mussolini attacked Abyssinia in northeast Africa.

discredited the LN as a peace-keeping organisation.

1936 Hitler took back the Rhineland.

1938 Occupied Austria

1938 Oct Occupied northwest Czechoslovakia

1939 Took over Czechoslovakia

Britain and France dropped the appeasement policy.

1 Sept 1939 Hitler attacked Poland.

3 Sept 1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany.