1922	Mussolini marches on Rome

1923	Failed Nazi putsch in Munich

1926	Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan
	Mussolini becomes Dictator (il Duce) of Italy

1929	Last parliamentary election in Japan until 1945
	Lateran Treaty: Italy recognizes Vatican City

1931	Japanese Army in Manchuria rebels
	Japanese Army Conquers all of Manchuria, the "Northern Resource Zone"
	Japan: Zaibatsu (industrialists) support army

1932	Japanese bombard Shanghai, 1st terror bombing of Civilians

1933	Nazi victory in German elections, Hitler appointed Chancellor
	Germany: Junkers (industrialists) support Hitler
	Germany: Reichstag Fire (Feb)
	Germany: 1st Concentration Camps (April)

1934	Hitler elected President of Germany
	Hitler purges SA leadership
	Himmler & SS in charge of Concentration Camps
	Failed Nazi coup in Austria

1935	Germany: Saar plebescite
	Italian Army invades Ethiopia

1936	Japan: Anti-Imperialist coup fails, leaders executed
	Germany remilitarizes the Rhineland
	Mussolini creates Italian East Africa
	First Toyota automobile built in Japan
	
1937	Japan announces "New Order in East Asia"
	Berlin-Rome Axis formed
	Japanese Army invades China
	German Condor Legion bombs Guernica in Spain
	Japanese Army besieges Nanking, "The Rape of Nanking"

1938	Japanese government imposes National Mobilization Law (Martial)
	German Anschluss with Austria (March)
	Russo-Japanese border clashes in Manchuria
	Munich Conference (September)
	Germany annexes Sudetenland (September)
	Germany: Krystallnacht (November)

1939	Japan dominates coastal China
	Germany annexes the rest of Czechoslovakia (March)
	US  moves fleet from Atlantic to Pacific
	Nazi-Soviet Pact (August)
	US cancels commercial treaty with Japan
	Germans & USSR invade & partition Poland (September)
	Britain & France declare war on Germany

1940	Japan joins the Axis (Tripartite Pact)
	Denmark & Norway fall to Germany (April)
	Italy attacks Egypt & Suez from Libya & Ethiopia
	Japan conquers French Indo-China
	Holland & Belgium fall to Germany (May)
	Italy attacks Greece, but driven back
	Japan attacks Dutch East Indies	France falls to Germany (June)
	British sink Italian fleet in S. Italy
	Battle of Britain
	Italian army driven back from Egypt into Libya

1941	Hideki Tojo becomes Prime Minister of Japan
	Yugoslavia & Greece fall to Germany (April)
	British & Ethiopians drive Italians from Ethiopia
	Japan attacks US Fleet at Pearl Harbor (December)
	Germany attacks Russia (June)
	Germany forms Africa Corps to aid Italians in Africa
	Japan attacks British fleet in Gulf of Siam
	Britain & Russia invade & occupy Iran
	US declares War on Japan
	Germany declares War on US (December)

1942	Japan takes Philippines, Singapore, Malaya, Burma
	German advances in Russia & North Africa
	Japan takes, Hong Kong, Dutch East Indies
	Germans take Tobruk, attack Egypt
	US Bombs Tokyo in Doolittle Raids
	German defeat at el-Alamein
	Japan defeated at Coral Sea & Midway
	Battle for Stalingrad begins (August)
	US forces land at Guadalcanal
	Anglo-American landing in French North Africa

1943	US begins Island Hopping war against Japan
	Germans defeated at Stalingrad (Feb) & Kursk (July)
	Anglo-American invasion of Sicily (July) & Italy (Aug)
	Japanese defeated by US in Bismarck Sea
	Germans defeated in North Africa (January)
	Italy surrenders (August)