EUROPA The Treaty of Versailles, established the compensation that Germany should pay the victors of the First World War. The United Kingdom obtained most of the German colonies in Africa and Oceania (although some went to the hands of Japan and Australia). In Central Europe, new states appeared after the dismemberment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia also had to cede territory to the new Poland, Romania and Italy.In November 1932 the eighth place German federal elections, in which the NSDAP achieved 33.1% of votes (though it fell just over 4%). Being the most voted and the impossibility of achieving a consensus choice among the other political forces, President Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor and orders him to form a government.
ASIA The Second Sino-Japanese War began in 1937, when Japan attacked China in depth from its platform in Manchuria. On July 7, 1937, Japan, having occupied Manchuria since 1931, launched another attack against China near Beijing, the northern capital. The Japanese finished occupying the north quickly, but were eventually arrested in the Battle of Shanghai. After fighting around the city for more than three months, Shanghai finally fell to the Japanese in November 1937, and the southern capital, Nanking fell shortly after. Because the war in China dragged on longer than planned, nationalist officers Guandong Army resumed the fight for control of Mongolia and Siberia with Russia. In the spring of 1939, Soviet and Japanese forces clashed on the border of Mongolia.