1936 League of Nations begins economic

sanctions against Italy, Italy walks out of League

1936 Olympic-Jesse Owens

1936 Spanish Civil War begins, Germany and Italy

help Fascist revolutionaries under Franco

Spanish civil war

Japan Invades China 1937

Rape of Nanking, US protests & begins embargo

A child next to the ruins of a destroyed railway station

Chinese prisoners are used as live targets during bayonet drills by their Japanese captors.

Dead children from Nanking in a pile

Chinese prisoners being buried alive

Dead bodies piled by the river

Pregnant woman raped and stabbed over 29

times. She later miscarried the baby.

Soldier poses with beheaded victims

Man shot in face, then burnt alive. He lived

for several days in agony.

The USS Panay in China 1937

The 1937 Panay Incident, Japanese sink US gunboat

in China, Japan apologizes but US angry

Hitler tells his military leaders Germany

must be ready for war in four years (1941)

1937 RomeBerlin-Tokyo
assistance pact
created:
Germany, Italy &
Japan
US and Brit.
alarmed

1938 The Austrian Anchluss takes place, Austria

becomes Nazi territory

European
Territory Hitler
Wants
5
Germany
1
3

4
2

Poland
Hitler and Stalin
Divide Poland
Aug 1939

Spring 1938

Fall 1938

Rhineland

1936

Czechoslovakia

Spring 1939

Polish Corridor

Summer 1939

(5)1939
Poland

(1) 1936
Sudetenland
(3)1938

(4)1939
(2)1938

1938 Sudetenland Crisis: Hitler demands large chunk of

Czech territory

1938 Munich Agreement: Hitler is appeased,

Czechs are sold out by Brits and France

Chamberlain comes back to Britain with the Munich

Agreement in his hand, says it means Peace in Our Time

1938: Nazis step up actions against the

German Jews.

Nov 1938: Kristallnacht- (Night of the Broken Glass)

Anti-Jewish riots breakout in Germany

Spring of 1939: Hitler disregards the Munich Agreement,

Germans occupy all of Czechoslovakia

Hitler and
Stalin sign
Nazi Soviet
Pact, the
world is
shocked

Soviets
Germany

Nazi-Soviet
Pact 1939
Secretly
Divides Up
Poland

Cynical
View of the
1939 NaziSoviet Pact

1939 Britain and France sign guarantee of

mutual assistance to Poland

Germans Invade Poland Sept 1, 1939

World War Two Begins