The Road to War-Manchuria to the Invasion of Russia * There were many milestones leading to WWII. There were 4 big ones, however. * Overall, the atmosphere in Europe was getting charged by Hitler doing a lot of small and trivial actions, and a general atmosphere of unrest. * You had Japans invasion of Manchuria in 1931. Japan did this because of their interest to industrialize, and Manchuria was rich in natural resources. Japan used an explosion in Mukden of …showed first 75 words of 610 total…

…showed last 75 words of 610 total…to stop this, and that led to war. Hitler annexed Austria, and then the Sudetenland. There was the Munich pact, and the Balkan pact which gave the Czechs the ultimatum to givethemselves over or be bombed. He invaded the Czechoslovakia, and divided it into three protectorates. He made the Hitler Stalin non aggression pact. After this pact he invaded Poland, which caused England and France to enter the war. After this, the war was underway