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Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty that was imposed upon Germany after the end of World War I. The treaty included a number of punishing conditions on Germany. This led to Germany’s economic collapse, and was a major factor in Adolf Hitler seizing power in Germany. -
The Weimar Republic is established in Germany
The Weimar Republic is a republic created that was eventually lead to the Nazi party in Germany that lead to them taking the government over. The Weimar consistutation was established August 11 1919 making them take all the political power of Germany -
League of Nation is created
The league of nation is a national organization created in 1920 to create a forum of resolving problems across the world war. The headquarters are in Switzerland,Geneva. -
French occupation of the Ruhr
A Period of time where a military occupation of the German valley by France and Belgium Between 1923 to 1925.This happened because of the Weimar Republic failure to continue to pay off there debts of the world war 1. -
Beer Hall putsch
A rally involving a group of Nazis including Adolf Hitler that failed because of the government which lead to the arrest of the Nazis leader by the government Adolf Hitler. Hitler was charged with treason by the government. -
The Dawes Plan is created
A plan by the big three countries who wanted money by this plan to get money from Germany for the world war damages that had happened to them. These three countries contained France, Britain and United states of America. -
Benito Mussolini become dicator of Itlay
Benito was the prime minister of Italy and took over the government to become the dictator of the the country. This lead to relationship with Hitler because they both made fascist governments. Creating a very dangerous relationships between two big dictatorships in Europe. -
The Locarno Treaties are signed
These treaties were formed October 5-16 1925 and were officially signed in London on December 1 1925. This treaty was created by western Europe Allied powers to protect the post war territories settlement and return normalizing nations. -
Kellogg Briand pact is signed
The pact was a general agreement between a lot of countries in world war 1 and they said they were not allowed to use war against other countries for land. 11 years later Hitler would break this pact against the allies -
Begining of the Great Depression
A stock market crash had happened creating a huge economic crisis. This lead to millions world wide were unemployed and most nations went into crisis mode allowing dictators to take over some countries. -
Japan Invaded Manchuria
The reason Japan invaded Manchuria,China was because they were like the rest of the world in an economic crisis. This event proved the in effectives of the league of nations stopping war's. -
Hitler apponited as Chancellor of Germany
Hitler's appointment to chancellor was Germany's president Hindenburg's desperate attempt to make Germany back Into shape before the war. When he came into power he turned Germany into a dictatorship, him as dicator. -
Italy invaded Ethiopia
Benito Mussonlini led the Italian invasion on Ethiopia in an effort to gain power to create and empire for there country. This also showed that league of nations let this happen and how the whole thing was a failure. -
Germany reoccupied the Rhineland
One of the Treaty of Versailles said Germany was not allowed to occupy the Rhineland. The league of nations did not do anything to try and stop them like there suppose to do and Hitler went on with his aggressive expansion. -
Creation of the Rome-Berlin Axis
Germany and Italy signed an agreement to become allies and support each other called the Rome Berlin Axis. Both Hitler and Mussolini wanted to expand their countries to big empires. This tandom is known as the Axis powers -
Creation of the Anti-Comintern Pact
A month after the Italy and Germany alliance, they added a third country in Japan. The pact was to fight against communist countries. -
Germany's anschluss with Austria
Anschluss refers to the concept of uniting Germanic-speaking peoples in Germany and Austria after world war 1. Germany was forbidden from having any alliance with Austria by the Treaty of Versailles. However Hitler again decided to break another law and became united with Austria. -
Signing of the Munich Agreement
After Hitler allied with Austria he looked to become friends with Czechoslovakia. Both Hitler and Mussolini entered into an agreement with Britian and France that allowed Germany to occupy the German speaking area of Czechoslovakia known as Sudetenland. The condition was that he had to stop expanding more land for his country. -
Germany occupied Czechslovakia
After signing the Munich agreement Hitler went and took over all of Czechoslovakia then what he was allowed too. Britain's response to this was that they didn't care and let this happen. -
Creation of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression pact
Hitler had intentions of invading more land of Europe, but do this he needed to create peace with Russia so they wouldn't go at each other. Hitler and Stalin both agreed to this non aggressive pact but it wouldn't last as they fought in 1941 when Germany Invaded Soviet Union -
Germany Invaded Poland
This was a big event as it created a lot of conversely on how Germany wasn't done and wanted Poland to there land to. There was a n agreement between Stalin and Hitler to share Poland. They violated the terms of Munich Agreement and was evidence of appeasement of Hitler's Aggression had not worked -
Britian Declared war against Germany
This response from Germany because they realized they failed to maintain peace following Germany's invasion on Poland. Britain had no choice to stand up to Hitler's Aggressive plan. They declared war on September 3rd,1939 this officially began World war 2.
