interwar period

  • WWI ends

  • Period: to

    1st STAGE

  • Treaty of Versailles

    War reparation imposed on Germany.
  • The League of Nations

    comes into force
  • March on Rome

    Mussolini rises to power in Italy.
  • Soviet Union

    Is stablished (USSR)
  • Period: to

    2nd STAGE

  • Lenin dies

    Stalin assumes leadership of the USSR
  • Germany joins The League of Nations

  • Stalin's First Five-Year Plan in the USSR

    Industralization and collectivization of agriculture.
  • Wall Street crash of 1929

    The Great Depression begins.
  • Japan invades Manchuria

  • Period: to

    3rd STAGE

  • Hitler is appointed Chancelor of Germany

  • Roosevelt rolls out the New Deal

    In response to the U.S economic crisis.
  • Germany withdraws from the League of Nations

  • Nuremberg Race Laws in Germany

  • The Spanish Civil War begins

  • Italy withdraws from the League of Nations

  • Anschluss

    Germany annexes Austria
  • Germany occupies Czechlovakia

    Germany occupies Czechlovakia