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The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles set out the terms for Germany's punishment which caused anger and resentment in Germany. Its 15 parts and 440 articles reassigned German boundaries and assigned liability for reparations. -
Economic Crisis 1929
The effects of the great economic crisis of the Great Depression (1929 to 1939) are felt in virtually all corners of the world. Anti-democratic countries form Totalitarianism governments that assert absolute and total control over the public and private lives of people and begin to adopt policies of expansion and aggression led by dictators. -
Hitler becomes Chanceller
Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945) becomes Chancellor of Germany and and head of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, better known as the Nazi Party. -
Hitlers becomes dictator
Hitler establishes himself as dictator assuming the title of "Fuhrer". Nazism shared many features of Fascism but also featured racism. -
Rome-Berlin Axis Treaty
Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy form the Rome-Berlin Axis treaty on October 25, 1936. -
Appeasement of Germany
France and Britain enact a policy of appeasement, agreeing to the German annexation of Czechoslovakia.
