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Treaty of Versailles is signed
The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. The treaty was also a contract to the the country of Germany to to make them take soul responsibility for the war the allies striped the Germans of their land an their colonies over seas as well as a debit of over 132 billion marks (then $31.4 billion or £6.6 billion, roughly) -
The League of Nations is created
The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. Its primary goals, as stated in its Covenant, included preventing wars through collective security and disarmament and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration. -
Benito Mussolini becomes dictator of Italy
he constitutionally led the country until 1925, when he dropped the pretense of democracy and established a dictatorship. -
Beginning of the Great Depression
The Great Depression started in the United States after a major fall in stock prices that began around September 4, 1929, and became worldwide news with the stock market crash. Between 1929 and 1932, worldwide gross domestic product (GDP) fell by an estimated 15%. -
Japan invades Manchuria
when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. Following the war, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until Soviet Union and Mongolia launched the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation in 1945. -
Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
Upon taking office, Hitler immediately began accumulating power and changing the nature of the chancellorship. The parliament passed the Enabling Act giving the chancellor full legislative powers for a period of four years. Powers of the chancellor continued to grow until August 1934, when the incumbent President Paul von Hindenburg died. Hitler used the Enabling Act to merge the office of chancellor with that of the president to create a new office, “the leader”. -
Italy invaded Ethiopia
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a colonial war fought from 3 October 1935 until 19 February 1937, although Addis Ababa was captured on 5 May 1936. The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and those of the Ethiopian Empire. Ethiopia was defeated, annexed and subjected to military occupation. -
Germany reoccupied the Rhineland
The re-militarization of the Rhineland by the German Army took place when German military forces entered the Rhineland. This was significant because it violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties, The re-militarization changed the balance of power in Europe from France towards Germany, and made it possible for Germany to pursue a policy of aggression in Western Europe that the demilitarized status of the Rhineland had blocked until then. -
Germany’s anschluss with Austria
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Signing of the Munich Agreement
The Munich Agreement, known in Czechoslovakia as the Munich Diktat, was an agreement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of the "Sudetenland", a region of western Czechoslovakia inhabited by 800,000 people, mainly German speakers. -
Germany occupied Czechoslovakia
The German occupation of Czechoslovakia began with the German annexation of Czechoslovakia's border regions known collectively as the Sudetenland, under terms outlined by the Munich Agreement. German leader Adolf Hitler's pretext for this action was the alleged privations suffered by the ethnic German population living in those regions. New and extensive Czechoslovak border fortifications were also located in the same area. -
Germany invaded Poland
The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign, was a joint invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, the Free City of Danzig, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II. -
Britain declared war on Germany
The Declaration of war by France and the United Kingdom was given on 3 September 1939, after German forces invaded Poland. Despite the speech being the official announcement of both France and the United Kingdom, the speech was given by the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in Westminster, London.
