Up to 1938
- April 20, 1889 - Hitler is born
- November 8, 1923 - Beer Hall Putsch occurs
- September 14, 1930 - Election day in Germany - Nazi party aquires 107 seats in German Reichstag
- September 18, 1931 - Japan took Mukden
- March 9, 1932 - Japanese transformed Manchuria into the State of Manchu
- June 30, 1934 - Himmler orders the murder of Nazi opponents
- August 2, 1934 - Hitler became Führer
- December 5, 1934 - Italian troops in Ethiopia were attacked
- May 9, 1936 - Ethiopia is captured by the Italians
- July 28, 1936 - Franco is helped by Hitler to get supplies to the mainland from Morocco
- September 27, 1936 - Toledo incident sets off the Spanish Civil War
- November 25, 1936 - Japan signs Anti-Comintern Pact with Germany
- December 12, 1937 - The gunboat Panay is sunk on the Yantze river
- March 15, 1935 - German Luftwaffe is created
- March 7, 1936 - Hitlers troops move into the Rhineland
- July 7, 1937 - Japanese troops were attacked by Chinese near Lukouchiao on Marco Polo Bridge
- March 12, 1938 - Vienna is taken
- March 15, 1938 - Czechoslovakia fells into German hands
- March 28, 1938 - Madrid surrendered to Franco
