1. Potential Causes for the Outbreak of War in 1939
Steps to World War II

2. 1931 – Manchurian Crisis

3. 1933 – Germany Rearms
German Rearmament Parade

4. 1935 – Abyssinian Crisis

5. Berlin Olympics of 1936
Fox news covers Olympic Games

6. 1936 – Occupation of the Rhineland

7. Source Analysis
Manchuria demonstrated that the league was toothless.   However, the blow to the League was not a mortal one and the decisive test came two years later in the Abyssinian crisis...   The Abyssinian crisis delivered a death blow to the League.   It was already weakened by the departure of Japan in March 1933 and Germany in October.   Italy left in 1937.   While Britain and France were distracted, Hitler made his first major territorial move, sending a force of 22,000 men into the demilitarised Rhineland.
Written by the historian AP Adamthwaite (1977)

8. March 1938 – Austrian Anschluss

9. Sept 1938 – Munich Agreement
British press release

10. October 1938 – Rome-Berlin Axis

11. Sept ’38 -March ‘39 - Sudetenland

12. August ‘39 –Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

13. Birds Eye Perspective

14. Collapse of European Democracies

15. September 1 1939 Invasion of Poland
Declaration of War from Britain and France on September