1922  Mussolini is legally put in charge of Italian gov’t

1924  Hitler leaves prison and revives Nazi Party

1929  Great Depression  Militarists control Japan in support of Emperor Hirohito

1931  Japan invades Manchuria

1933  Hitler named Chancellor of Germany  Japan withdraws from League of Nations

1935  Italy invade Ethiopia  Hitler announces Germany will not obey restrictions of Treaty of Versailles

1936  Spanish Civil War begins  Lasts 3 years  Francisco Franco fascist ruler  Germany invades RhinelandRhineland  Axis Powers ally  Germany, Italy, Japan

1937  Japan invades China

 Kristallnacht (Nov 9)  Hitler annexes Austria  Germany invades Sudetenland  Munich Conference  Ger., Fr., Br., Ital.  Appeasement 1938

1939  Hitler takes Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia  Hitler and Stalin sign nonaggression pact

Sept. 1, 1939  Germany invades Poland

Sept. 3, 1939  France and Britain declare war on Germany