Interwar Years [1919-1939]

  • Paris Peace Conference

    Paris Peace Conference
    The meeting of the Allied victors in WWI to set peace terms for Germany and other defeated nations, and to deal with the empires of the defeated powers following the Armistice of 1918. It took place in Paris and they had met in an attempt to form a lasting peace throughout the world.
  • League of Nations

    League of Nations
    Was established to prevent another war (after WWI)
  • Washington Treaties

    Washington Treaties
    1921 - 1920
    i dont know the exact dates but i do know the years ): The recognition of China's territorial integreity and the signatories's spheres in Asia were guaranteed by the Nine Power Pact and the Four Power Pact.
  • Treaty of Rapallo

    Treaty of Rapallo
    Agreement between Germany and Russia to cancel any pre-war debts
  • French occupation of Ruhr

    French occupation of Ruhr
    Germany defaulted its reparations to France, so the French moved in to occupy the Ruhr.
  • Dawes Plan

    Dawes Plan
    I don't know the day ): , but i pretty sure i got the month and the year (: Financial aid offered to Germany by the US for assisting in restructuring of reparation payments after WWI in loans.
  • Locarno Treaties

    Locarno Treaties
    Agreement defining Germany's western borders with France and Belgium with Britain and Italy as guarantors.
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact

    Kellogg-Briand Pact
    Renounces aggresive war but offended no one or had any machinery of enforcement
    Illusion of peace and security.
  • Young Plan

    Young Plan
    Furthur modification to the Dawes Plan for Germany.
  • Japan invades Manchuria

    Japan invades Manchuria
    The Japanese invasion of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan, beginning on September 19, 1931, immediately followed the Mukden Incident. The Japanese occupation of Manchuria lasted until the end of World War II.
  • Germany...

    Again ): i only know the Year for this one >.< Reparation payments ended by Germany.
  • Hitler rises to dictatorship

    Hitler rises to dictatorship
    On March 23, the newly elected Reichstag met in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin to consider passing Hitler's Enabling Act. It was officially called the "Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich."
    Hitler needed 31 non-Nazi votes to pass it. He got those votes from the Catholic Center Party after making a false promise to restore some basic rights already taken by decree.
  • Ethiopia invaded by Italy

    Ethiopia invaded by Italy
    Ethiopia (Abyssinia), which Italy had unsuccessfully tried to conquer in the 1890s, was in 1934 one of the few independent states in a European-dominated Africa. A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Benito Mussolini an excuse to intervene. Rejecting all arbitration offers, the Italians invaded Ethiopia on Oct. 3, 1935.
  • Rhineland reoccupied by Hitler

    Rhineland reoccupied by Hitler
    On March 7, 1936 a small contingent of German troops, increased considerably in number in the following days, marched into the Rhineland demilitarized zone bordering France. Hitler's excuse (as if he needed one) was the ratification one month earlier of a mutual assistance pact between France and Russia that he chose to regard as directed against Germany.
  • WWII begins

    WWII begins
    Hitler invades Poland