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Treaty of Versailles signed
The Treaty of Versailles is a document that specifies a peace treaty imposed on Germany by the victors of the Allied Forces of World War I. The Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, and officially ended the war between Germany and the Allied Powers. The purpose of this treaty is peace negotiations and negotiating this treaty has been a long and complicated process. -
Mussolini becomes leader of Italy
Benito Mussolini, originally a revolutionary socialist, organized the paramilitary fascist movement in 1919 and when Italy plunged into political turmoil, he declared that only he could restore order and became Italy's prime minister in 1922. Mussolini then dismantled the democratic system and became a dictator of Italy himself in 1925. He also began trying to rebuild Italy as a European power. -
Hitler’s Munich Putsch
From November 8 to November 9, 1923, Adolf Hitler and his followers attempted to overthrow the Munich government. It was an embarrassing attempt by Adolf Hitler and Erich Rudendorf to rebel against the Weimar Republic in Germany. Adolf Hitler was then sentenced on November 8, 1923 for his role in Beerhole Pouch. Attempts for a coup by the Nazi Party's military and right-wing forces in Munich were thwarted by the government, and Hitler was charged with high treason. -
Stalin becomes leader of the Soviet Union
Stalin, who fought in the Russian civil war before overseeing the establishment of the Soviet Union, became the leader of Russia after Lenin's death in 1924. He used a combination of manipulation and fear to destroy the opposition and become a Soviet dictator. Stalin served as general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union until his death. -
Japan invades Manchuria
Japan's invasion of Manchuria occurred on September 19, 1931, shortly after the Mukden incident, when Japan violated the rules of the League of Nations and invaded Manchuria without declaring war. The purpose of the invasion was to find oil, rubber and wood to replenish Japan's scarce resources. After the war, the Japanese established a puppet state in Manchuria. As a result, Japan won the truce. -
First concentration camp opens in Germany
Dachau is Germany's first Nazi concentration camp and was founded on March 10, 1933, a little over five weeks after Adolf Hitler became prime minister. These camps were established and operated in German domestic and European occupied territories for the purpose of forced labor and genocide during the pre-World War II and during the The first concentration camp was set up in Germany before the war and forced prisoners of conscience against the Nazi regime. -
Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany
President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler as prime minister on January 30, 1933, after a series of parliamentary elections and the attention of the relevant backroom. Hitler seized power in March 1933 after Reichstag adopted the 1933 practice law, giving him expanded authority. He invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 during the dictatorship and led World War II in Europe. He was deeply involved in military operations throughout the war. -
The Reichstag Fire
It was the arson attack on the Reichstag building, home to the German parliament in Berlin, on February 27, 1933, exactly four weeks after Adolf Hitler took office as German prime minister. The fire was a key event in the establishment of Nazi dictatorships, widely believed to have been manipulated by the newly formed Nazi government itself to reverse public opinion against opposition forces and seize emergency power. -
The Reichstag passes the Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Act was enacted by Reichstag at a special meeting convened during the Nazi Party's annual Nuremberg Assembly (NSDAP) on September 15, 1935. This law was anti-government and racist in Nazi Germany. It was the German Bloodline Protection Act, the German Bloodline Protection Act, and the Imperial Citizen Act, which declared that only German bloodline or related bloodline were eligible to become imperial citizens. The rest were classified as states without citizenship. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
In the Ethiopian-Italian border incident in December, Italy rejected all arbitration proposals and invaded Ethiopia on Oct. 3, 1935. Italy's invasion of Ethiopia was aimed at enhancing Italy's national prestige hurt by Ethiopia's defeat of Italian troops in the Battle of Adowa in 1896, saving Ethiopia from an Italian colony. As a result, the Foundation of Italian East Africa and Italy's victory. -
Hitler re-arms (sends troops into) the Rhineland
In March 1936, Hitler claimed that the Treaty of Friendship and Mutual support between France and the Soviet Union signed in May 1933 was a hostile move with Germany, and sent German troops to Rhineland under the excuse of this. -
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War began on July 17, 1936 to overthrow the democratically elected republic of Emilio Morma and Francisco Franco. Initial efforts by the People's Party rebels to incite rebellion across Spain were only partially successful. As a result, nationalism won and the second Spanish republic ended. -
Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy from the Rome-Berlin Axis Treaty
The Roman-Berlin axis of the Allied Forces formed between Italy and Germany in 1936. Italy's Foreign Minister Galeacho Shiano signed an agreement on October 25, 1936 that would unofficially link the two fascist states. It was initially drafted as a three-way military alliance between Japan, Italy and Germany. Japan wanted the focus of the agreement to target the Soviet Union, but Italy and Germany wanted to target the British Empire and France. -
Japan commits the “Rape of Nanjing”
The Nanjing Massacre (Rape of Nanjing) took place over a six-week period from December 13, 1937, when the Japanese captured Nanjing. The Nanjing Massacre (Rape of Nanjing) was a mass murder and mass rape case committed by the Japanese Imperial Army against residents of Nanjing, then the capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. As a result, 50,000 to 300,000 people were killed. -
Germany & Austria join in the “Anschluss”
On March 12, 1938, the German army marched to Austria to annex a German-speaking country for the Third Reich. The Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite Nazi Germany and its homeland. Austria existed as a federal state of Germany until the end of World War II, when the Allied Powers declared the annulment of the Anschlers and rebuilt the independent Austria. -
Munich Conference grants Hitler control of the Sudetenland
On September 30, 1938, the General Assembly of Munich grants Hitler control of Sudetenland. The agreement gave Germany a Sudetenland and a de facto control over the rest of Czechoslovakia as long as Hitler promised not to go any further. Chamberlain, who then took some rest, went to Hitler and asked him to sign a peace treaty between Britain and Germany. -
Kristallnacht
On November 9, 1938, Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) was a pogrom of Jews carried out by SA paramilitary organizations and civilians throughout Nazi Germany on November 9-10th, 1938.Jewish homes, hospitals and schools went on a rampage as terrorists demolished buildings with hammers. Also, more than 7,000 Jewish businesses were damaged or destroyed, and 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and held in concentration camps. German authorities continued to watch it without intervening. -
Hitler sends troops into Czechoslovakia to annex the whole country
Czech parts of Czechoslovakia were later merged into Hitler (Germany) in March 1939. In March 1938, the conquest and dissolution of Czechoslovakia became Hitler's next ambition after Austria's Anshler and Nazi Germany. Including Sudetenland, Germany, which began on October 1, 1938, the rest of Czechoslovakia weakened and had no power to resist subsequent occupation. Outside the Czech part, the rest of the country has been turned into guardians in Bohemia and Moravia. -
Hitler & Stalin announce the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
On August 23, 1939, just before World War II broke out in Europe, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a German-Soviet nonaggression treaty that agreed not to take military action against each other over the next decade. It saw the agreement as a way to maintain peaceful relations with Germany, while giving Soviet leader Joseph Stalin time to build Soviet troops. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression treaty broke down in June 1941 when German Nazi forces invaded the Soviet Union. -
Hitler/Nazis invade Poland
On September 1, 1939, a week after the Molotov cocktail agreement was signed between Germany and the Soviet Union, Hitler and the Nazis invaded Poland. This marked the beginning of World War II. As a result, the war ended on Oct. 6 when Germany and the Soviet Union split and annexed all of Poland under the terms of the German-Soviet Frontier Treaty.
