PACIFIC WAR TIMELINE

1939


15 March: Czechoslovakia: Country annexed by the Nazis.


April: America: Roosevelt warns of the dangers to America of the ‘autarkic’ tendencies of the totalitarian states.


24 July: Great Britain: Prime Minister Chamberlain signs the Cragie-Arita Agreement whereby, in appeasement of Japan, British rights in the international settlement in Shanghai were curtailed while Japan was allowed special rights.


24 August: Germany-Russia: Hitler and Stalin to Japan’s surprise sign the Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact.


25 August: Poland: Britain and Poland sign a mutual assistance treaty.


3 September: Poland: Germany invades Poland and Britain and France declare war.


29 September: Poland: Soviets and Nazis divide up Poland.


30 November: Finland: Soviets attack neighboring Finland in the start of the Winter War.



December: America: Roosevelt agrees a US25m credit for Japan.

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