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Foreign News: Five Years of Dates

1935

June 18. Joachim von Ribbentrop and Sir Samuel Hoare sign Anglo-German Naval Treaty.

Oct. 3. Italy invades Ethiopia.

1936

March 7. Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland.

July 18. Spanish Civil War begins.

Dec. 10. Edward VIII abdicates.

1937

May 28. Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister.

July 7. Japan invades China.

1938

March 11. Hitler occupies Austria.

April 16. Britain reaffirms Mediterranean "agreement" with Italy.

April 24. Konrad Henlein makes eight demands for Sudeten Germans.

Aug. 3. Britain sends Runciman mission to Prague.

Sept. 29. Munich.

Oct.1. Hitler takes the Sudetenland.

Nov. 23. Ribbentrop and Bonnet sign French-German non-aggression pact.

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