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World War I ends
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Treaty of Versailles
War reparations imposed on Germany -
The League of Nations comes into force
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March on Rome
Mussolini rises to power in Italy -
The Soviet Union is established
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Lenin dies and Stallin assumes leadership of USSR
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Germany joins the League of Nations
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Stallin's First Five-Year Plan in the USSR
industrialization and collectivization of agriculture -
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Wall Street Crash of 1929
The Great Depression begins -
Japan invades Manchuria
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Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
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Roosevelt rolls out the New Deal in response to U.S. economic crisis
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Germany withdraws from the League of Nations
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Nuremberg Race Laws in Germany
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The Spanish Civil War begins
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Italy withdraws from the League of Nations
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Anschluss
Germany annexes Austria -
Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
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The Spanish Civil War ends
Franco's dictatorship begins -
Germany invades Poland
World War II begins