events preceding ww ii

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World War IIThe United States’ Entrance

Political Spectrum

1933 – Hitler comes to power. Japan leaves the League of Nations.

1935 – Italy invades Ethiopia and leaves the League of Nations.

1936 – Fascist Francisco Franco takes over Spain.

1937 – Japan invades China – Rape of Nanking, bombing of Shanghai. Guernica, Spain bombed by the Nazis in support of Franco.

1938 – Germany annexes Austria.

1939 – Germany annexes Czechoslovakia. Germany invades Poland. WWII begins.

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