Interwar Period By Alejandro Ayabaca

By AlejoAya12

  • The Siberian Expedition

  • Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates; Ebert takes over as president of the new Weimar Republic

  • Germany signs armistice to end World War One

  • Hitler joins the German Workers’ Party

    september

  • The Treaty of Versailles confirms Japan’s war gains

  • Period: to

    There is widespread socialist unrest

  • Spartacist uprising Germany (Weimar republic)

  • Mussolini founds a Fascist party

  • The Versailles Settlement does not give Italy major gains

  • The German Workers’ Party is renamed the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (or NSDAP).

    February

  • The Kapp Putsch

    march

  • Britain and France declare war on Germany

    January
  • Period: to

    There is widespread Fascist violence against opposition groups

  • The Fascist Party is established under the control of Mussolini

  • The king appoints Mussolini prime minister

  • Italy bombards Corfu

  • French troops occupy the Ruhr

    january

  • Germany faces hyperination

  • Beer Hall Putsch

    November

  • The Dawes Plan is implemented

    september

  • Italy gains the Fiume

  • Italy signs the Locarno Treaties

  • The Locarno Treaty

    october

  • The Peace Preservation Law

  • Hirohito becomes emperor

  • Germany joins the League of Nations

  • Albania becomes an Italian protectorate

  • Mussolini encourages Croatian separatists who want to break away from the newly created state of Yugoslavia

  • Mussolini encourages Arab nationalistswho challenge the British and French Empires

  • Germany signs the Kellogg–Briand Pact

  • Mussolini encourages Macedonian separatists in Yugoslavia

  • The Young Plan

  • The Wall Street Crash in the USA

    october

  • The death of Stresemann

    october

  • The Nazi Party gains 18.3% of the vote in the Reichstag elections

    September

  • The Manchurian crisis

  • The League of Nations decides to set up a Commission under Lord Lytton to investigate the Mukden incident

  • Unemployment reaches 4.9 million Germany

  • Japanese invasion of Manchuria: condemned by the League of Nations; weak sanctions are imposed

    September

  • The Nazi party gains 37.4% of the vote in the Reichstag elections

    july

  • Manchuria events

    Japan bombs Chinese districts
    of Shanghai
    Army ocer revolt
    Prime Minister Inukai is assassinated

  • The USA issues Stimson Non-Recognition Doctrine

  • After a 13 year campaign, the Italian colony of Libya is subdued

  • Franklin D Roosevelt is elected president in the USA

    November

  • The Lytton Commission publishes its report

  • Period: to

    World Disarmament Conference

  • Manchukuo is created

  • Japan leaves the League of Nations

  • Mussolini proposes the Four Power Pact

  • Hitler introduces a programme of rearmament

    Februeary

  • Hitler leaves the Disarmament Conference and announces the intention to withdraw Germany from the League of Nations

    October

  • Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

    january

  • The repeal of the naval treaties of Washington and London by the Japanese navy

  • Germany signs a non-aggression pact with Poland

    january

  • Mussolini meets Hitler in Venice

  • Italy sends troops to its border with Austria to prevent Hitler’s attempts at Anschluss

  • The Stresa Conference

    April

  • Italy invades Abyssinia

    october

  • Saar Plebiscite

  • The Neutrality Act passed (expires in six months)

    USA, August

  • Roosevelt invokes the Neutrality Act, preventing the supply of arms to either country

    October

  • Limited sanctions are applied

    Abyssinia, Nvomebr

  • The Hoare–Laval Pact

    December

  • The Council of the League declares Italy to be the aggressor in Abyssinia

  • The League’s Assembly votes to impose sanctions

    Abyssinia

  • Japan signs the Anti-Commintern Pact with Germany

  • Political inestability

    Election results in the Minseito Party
    in government
    An attempted coup takes place in Japan,
    in favour of Kodo-ha
    The start ofTosei domination of government

  • Italy conquers Abyssinia

    april

  • Mussolini initiates talks of an Axis agreement with Hitler

    october

  • Italy intervenes in the Spanish CivilWar

    July

  • Hitler’s Germany also sends assistance to Franco

    july

  • Italy joins Germany in the Axis agreement

    October

  • Rome–Berlin Axis

    November

  • The French Popular Front wins the election

    January

  • The French Popular Front wins the election

    August

  • Hitler’s Four Year Plan is drafted

    August

  • Second United Front established between the GMD and the CCP in China

  • The Marco Polo Bridge Incident The beginning of Sino–Japanese War

  • China appeals to the League of Nations after the Marco Polo incident

  • USS Panay is sunk by the Japanese

  • An unocial agreement is made with Britain accepting the status quo in Mediterranean

  • Mussolini is impressed by Hitler on a visit to Germany

    September

  • Italy joins the Anti-Comintern Pact with Germany and Japan, an anti-Soviet alliance

    November

  • Italy withdraws from the League of Nations

    December

  • Hossbach Memorandum

  • Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of Britain

    May

  • The USA passes a joint resolution outlawing the arms trade in Spain

    January

  • The National Mobilization Bill

  • A proposal for the East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere is announced

  • The USA gives loans to the GMD

  • Italian and British agreement: Britain recognizes Italian Abyssinia

    April

  • Hitler visits Mussolini

    May

  • Anti-semitic laws are passed in Italy

    May

  • The Munich Conference

    September

  • Anschluss declared with Austria after German troops march into Austria

    March

  • The Sudeten crisis

    September

  • Mussolini now accepts Anschluss

    May

  • The Imperial Rule Assistance Association is formed

  • All political parties are banned in Japan

  • Mussolini announces his long-term programme

    February

  • All political parties are banned in Japan

  • The USA starts an embargo on Japan and the trade deal is cancelled

  • Lithuania gives up the port of Memel to Germany

    March

  • The Pact of Steel

    May

  • Italy and Germany sign the Pact of Steel military alliance

    May

  • Germany occupies the rest of Czechoslovakia

    March

  • Anglo–French guarantee of Poland

  • Conscription introduced in Britain

  • Anglo-French mission to Moscow

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact

  • Anglo-Polish Treaty

  • Italy declares itself a non-belligerent when Germany invades Poland

  • Germany invades Poland

  • Italy declares itself a non-belligerent when Germany invades Poland

  • Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Mussolini attempts to set up a conference to avoid war

  • Japan signs the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy

  • July–September: the Burma Road is closed

  • In September Churchill reopens the Burma Road following the Tripartite Pact

  • Mussolini declares war on Britain and France

    June

  • USA passes the Lend–Lease Act

  • Japan occupies southern Indo-China. TheUSA freezes Japanese assets. A total trade embargo is imposed by ABDpowers

  • The Italian nationalist d’Annunzio seizes the port of Fiume

  • Period: to

    Italy invades Egypt and Greece

  • Italian elections are held and the Socialist Party and Catholic Party gain the majority of votes but fail to form a government

  • Japan signs the Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union

  • Japan invades the rest of Indo-China

  • Italy declares war on the Soviet Union

    June

  • Italy declares war on the USA

    December

  • A total oil is embargo imposed on Japan by the USA

  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor