Events leading to the outbreak of the Second World War

Question 1

Events leading to the outbreak of the second world war

Answer 1

aggressive actions before the war
Japan
1. Invasion of NE China (Manchuria) 1931
2. Signing of the Anti-Comintern pact 1936
3. Second Sino-Japanese war 1937-45

Italy
1. Invasion of Abyssinia in Africa 1935
2. Intervention in the Spanish Civil War 1936-39

Germany
1. Rearmament 1935
2. Remilitarisation of the Rhineland 1936
3. Intervention in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
4. Annexation of Austria 1938
5. Annexation of Czechoslovakia 1938-39
6. Invasion of Poland, 1939

-> Britain and France abandon appeasement policy -> declare war on Germany

WW2

Question 2

Japanese aggressive actions before WW2

Answer 2

1. Invasion of NE China (Manchuria) 1931
2. Signing of the Anti-Comintern pact 1936
3. Second Sino-Japanese war 1937-45

Question 3

Italian aggressive actions before WW2

Answer 3

1. Invasion of Abyssinia in Africa 1935
2. Intervention in the Spanish Civil War 1936-39

Question 4

German aggressive actions before WW2

Answer 4

1. Rearmament 1935
2. Remilitarisation of the Rhineland 1936
3. Intervention in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
4. Annexation of Austria 1938
5. Annexation of Czechoslovakia 1938-39
6. Invasion of Poland, 1939