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Axis Aggression. In the decade prior to the outbreak of WW2, Japan, Italy, and Germany engaged in one act of aggression after another without any effective opposition. 1931 - Japan invades Manchuria 1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia 1935 – Germany reintroduce the draft
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Axis Aggression In the decade prior to the outbreak of WW2, Japan, Italy, and Germany engaged in one act of aggression after another without any effective opposition.
1931 - Japan invades Manchuria 1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia 1935 – Germany reintroduce the draft 1936 – Germany remilitarizes the Rhineland 1936 – Francisco Franco, back by Germany & Italy, revolts against democratically elected government in Spain which is backed by the Soviets 1937 – Japan invades China proper
1938 – Anschluss, annexation of Austria by Germany 1938 – Germany seizes the Sudetenland by way of the Munich Conference – a few months later all of Czechoslovakia is seized 1939 – Italy invades Albania 1939 – German/Soviet Nonaggression Pact 1939 – Germany invades Poland September 3, 1939 Britain and France declare war
