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The Depression and international politics
24 October 1929 was a fateful day in the history of the world. This was the day of the Wall Street Crash. The value of shares on American stock market collapsed. People tried frantically to sell their shares before the prices fell even further. in one day no fewer than 13 million shares were sold. This was the start of an economic crisis that devastated the whole world. -
Wall street Crash
USA became even more isolationist, also the wall street affected Germany, politicians were more interested in rebuilding the American Economy. -
Hittler breakthrough
The nazy party won 107 seats and became the second largest party in Germany. -
The beggining of depresion and Britain
The value of the pound was reduced and it was no longer linked to the price of gold. -
Attack on Manchuria
Japan took the initiative in september 1931 when they organised an armed clash with Chinese forces in Manchuria. -
Nazis made further progress
In the elections of july, the nazi party won 230 seats and became the largest party in the reichtag. -
Hittler withraw Germany from the disarmament conference
Since this date and in the following two years he concentrated on strenghthening his position in Germany and rearming Germany. -
The beggining of depression and Germany
Factors were only producing about 60 percent of the output of 1928. By 1932 one out of every three of the working population was unemployed -
Roosevelt was elected
Under Roosevelt policy became even more isolationist. -
Hittler Became Chancellor
After elections in March 1933 Hittler took complete control. Democracy came to an end on March when the Reichstag passed the so-called "Enabling Law" -
Japan left the league
Even though the League did little Japan was not prepared to accept any criticism and left the League in 1933 -
Germany rearmament
Hittler showed his contempt for the Versailles settelment by withrawing Germany from the League of Nations. -
March on the Rhineland
Hitler defied the Treaty of Versailles. He ordered German troops to march into the Rhineland. -
Austria (Anschluss)
Austria was in state of crisis. Local Nazis were making life difficult for the government of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg. -
Munich Conference
The conference would try to explore a peaceful solution to the crisis over Czechoslovakia -
Sudeten
There were about 3 million German speakers in Czechoslovakia. They were a large minority in a country dominated by Czechs and Slovaks. They were known as Sudeten Germans and were concentrated in the border areas. -
Czechoslovakia (end of appeasement)
The government of Czechoslovakia looked to Britain and France for help. By March 1938 Chanmberlain was saying in private that Czechoslovakia could not be saved. -
Declaration of war
Britain declares War on Germany -
Invasion of poland
Was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the start of World War II. The invasion began on 1 September 1939 and ended 6 October 1939 with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland.
