Important events

  • Emperor Whilhem II abdicates

  • The Weimar Republic is established

  • Prohibition and rise of organised crime in the United States

  • Mussolini sets up the National Fascist Party in Italy

  • Adolf Hitler Sets up the National Socialist Workers' Party

  • General workers' strike in Italy King Victor Emmanuel III makes Mussolini president

  • King Victor Emmanuel III makes Mussolini president

  • The March on Rome

  • Adolf Hitler attempts a coup d'état

  • Dawes Plan

  • Death of Lenin and creation of the USSR

  • A new artistic style emerge: Surrealism

  • Stalin introduces his five-years plans

  • Young plan

  • The New York stock market collapses

  • Elections in Germany prevent the formation of a goverment Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor (Prime minister)

  • Roosevelt's New Deal

  • Reichstag fire; Adolf Hitler declares a state of emergency

  • Night of the Long Knives

  • Start of the Third Reich

  • Nuremberg Laws

  • Stalin introduces a new constitution

  • Night of the Broken Glass