Interwar Period

  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution
    The Russian Revolution of 1917 overthrew the Tsarist regime and brought the Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, to power, establishing the world's first socialist state.
  • End WW1

    End WW1
    It was the most devastating war in human history to date, a conflict that was to be the prelude to another, years later, that would have even more terrible consequences.
  • Treats of Versalles

    Treats of Versalles
    Was a peace treaty signed in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles in France at the end of World War I by more than fifty countries.
  • Mussolini seized power

    Mussolini seized power
  • Treaty of Rapallo

    Treaty of Rapallo
    This treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union, signed in 1922, allowed both countries to circumvent the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles and to cooperate militarily and economically.
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression
    In October 1929, the New York Stock Exchange collapsed, triggering a global economic crisis known as the Great Depression.
  • Crack of NY Stock market

    Crack of NY Stock market
    On 29 October 1929, investors on the New York Stock Exchange panicked and dumped more than 16 million shares, causing financial chaos and a plunge in the value of the shares of the country's most important companies.
  • II Republic

    II Republic
    The Second Spanish Republic was the democratic regime that existed in Spain between 14 April 1931.
  • Hitler Chancelbr

    Hitler Chancelbr
  • The Great March

    The Great March
    The retreat of the Chinese Red Army led by Mao Zedong from Jiangxi to Shaanxi to escape Kuomintang harassment during the Chinese civil war.
  • Spanish Civil War

    Spanish Civil War
    The Spanish Civil War was an armed conflict that pitted Republican forces against Franco's forces, led by General Francisco Franco. This war left deep scars on Spanish history and society, the consequences of which are still felt today.
  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference
    A meeting between Germany, Italy, France and the United Kingdom, at which Germany was allowed to annex the Sudetenland, a German-speaking region of Czechoslovakia, as part of the policy of appeasement.
  • Invasion of Poland

    Invasion of Poland
    The joint invasion of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in September 1939, marking the beginning of World War II.
  • Beggining of WW1

    Beggining of WW1
    Germany invaded Poland on 1 September 1939 and thus began World War II. In response, Britain and France declared war on Germany. German forces invaded Western Europe in the spring of 1940.
  • Holocaust

    Holocaust
    During World War II, the Nazi regime carried out the systematic genocide of six million Jews, as well as other ethnic groups and minorities, in what is known as the Holocaust.
  • End of WW2

    End of WW2
    9 August 1945 The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. 2 September 1945 Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on 14 August 1945, Japan formally surrenders and World War II ends.