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| 1937 |
| | Japanese troops occupy Beijing – at the start of eight years of continuous war between China and Japan | |
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| 1937 |
| | Buchenwald, near Weimar, is set up as a concentration camp providing forced labour for local arms manufacturers | |
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| 1937 |
| | Adolf Hitler, entertaining Mussolini in Germany, puts on spectacular demonstrations of German military and industrial might | |
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| 1937 |
| | The Japanese capture the Chinese capital, Nanjing, and massacre at least 300,000 inhabitants within a few weeks | |
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| 1938 March 1 |
| | German tanks cross the border into Austria, on the official invitation of Austrian Nazis | |
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| 1938 March 12 |
| | Adolf Hitler, following his troops into Austria, announces the Anschluss (union of Germany and Austria) | |
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| 1938 April 24 |
| | The Sudeten German National Socialist Party demands secession from Czechoslovakia, in keeping with Hitler's plans for the Sudetenland | |
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| 1938 September 15 |
| | Neville Chamberlain makes the first of three flights to Germany, this time to negotiate with Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden | |
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| 1938 September 29 |
| | Neville Chamberlain and Édouard Daladier fly to Munich to discuss Hitler's designs on the Czech Sudetenland | |
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| 1938 September 29 |
| | Chamberlain and Daladier agree at Munich that Hitler may annexe the Czech Sudetenland, with its largely German population | |
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