- 1931- Japan invades Manchuria
- '35- Italy invades Ethiopia
-'36- Jap. invades China; Germ. re-occupates Rhineland -'38- Munich. Conference - Czech divided - Sept1,29390 Germany invades Poland without declaration of war- WW2 in EUROPE begins.
then there are the underlying causes. which are controversial.
Germany, Japan and Italy attacked other nations in an effort to gain land and Natural Resources.
Pearl Harbor.
Adolf Hitler's greed and madness.
world war 2
The immediate cause of World War 2 in Europe was the German invasion of Poland.In the Far East/Pacific there is no single date. The Japanese invaded China in 1937, and in 1941 extended the war by attacking the US at Pearl Harbor.
Axis expansion.
Pearl Harbor.
Adolf Hitler's greed and madness.
The attack on Pearl Harbor
The Germans had been slowly building up their military after the fall of the Weimar Republic; their invasion of Poland in 1939 was probably the most immediate cause of the world war.
The German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939
In Europe it was the attack of Poland by the German Nazis on 9-1-39. In the Pacific it was the attack on the US Naval Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Japanese on 12-7-41 that was the immediate cause of World War 2 for the USA.
world war 2
The immediate cause was Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, but there were many underlying causes of the war, most which dated back to the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles after World War I.
japan had attacked pearl harbour president Roosevelt said"we will cause war on japan"by david redmond
The immediate cause of World War 2 in Europe was the German invasion of Poland.In the Far East/Pacific there is no single date. The Japanese invaded China in 1937, and in 1941 extended the war by attacking the US at Pearl Harbor.
Axis expansion.
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