Interwar Policies Timeline

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  • USA foreign policy

     USA foreign policy
    •Reduce the size and cost of the military, this allowed the reduction of taxes.
    • The way in which it interacts with foreign nations and sets standards of interactions for its organizations, corporations and system
    •International peace decided to try and stay out of the world's problems for the most part involving the US.
  • Germany's violation of the treaty: End of Reparation Payments

     Germany's violation of the treaty: End of Reparation Payments
    •Under the demand of the reparation payments, Germany's economy was on the verge of collapse and Germany was not able to meet the payment requirements. In 1924, the end of the revenant payments was passed.
  • Germany's violation of the treaty of Versailles: Rearmament

     Germany's violation of the treaty of Versailles: Rearmament
    •Hitler built up his army in secret, then in 1935 he openly held a huge rearmament rally.
  • Germany's violation of the treaty: Lebensraum

     Germany's violation of the treaty: Lebensraum
    •March 1936, remilitarization of the Rhineland by the German army change the power balance in Europe from France towards Germany, and it made it possible for Germany to pursue a policy of aggression in Eastern Europe.
  • Germany's violation of the treaty: Anshluss

     Germany's violation of the treaty: Anshluss
    •In 1936, Hitler introduced conscription and tested his armies forces in the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, Hitler also broke the Treaty of Versailles by moving troops to the Rhineland. And in 1938 invaded Austria and declared Anschluss.
  • Germany's violation of the treaty: Occupation of Czechoslovakia

     Germany's violation of the treaty: Occupation of Czechoslovakia
    •March 15, 1938, German troops marched into Czechoslovakia. They took over Bohemia, and established claim over Slovakia. Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia was the end of the appeasement – proving that Hitler had been lying at the Munich.
  • British and French policy of appeasement

    British and French policy of appeasement
    •Great Britain, France and the US had the power and resources to check the aggressive actions of Germany, Italy and Japan in the 1930s, but failed to do on the account of the policy of appeasement.
  • Japan's ultra nationalism

    Japan's ultra nationalism
    •Japan's ultra nationalism reflects on the interwar. By incapacitating a broad range of ideas and history regarding Japan's culture and national pride. After World War I Japan's government began to mulch the idea of democracy, but due to the devastating economic downfall in 1929, Japan dove into a ‘great depression’.
  • Germany's Ultra nationalism

    Germany's Ultra nationalism
    •Germany, after the loss of World War I, was not only struggling to provide for other people, but were in bridge by the loss in the war and the Treaty of versailles. This spawned the rise of Nazi Germany, but due to the treaties restrictions Germany was forced to build their army in secrecy.
  • Italy's Ultra nationalism

    Italy's Ultra nationalism
    •Italy's ultranationalism is significant due to their terms of joining the first world war. Italy came to terms with joining the first world war by bargaining with their allies for land. But after the war was ended, Italy was never given their land and felt unheard in the Treaty of Versailles; thus leading to their role in World War II and the vengeance against those who ignore them.
  • Germany's violation of the treaty: Munich Pact

     Germany's violation of the treaty: Munich Pact
    •September 30, 1938 A settlement is reached by Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy that permitted Germany to claim the Sudetenland of western Czechoslovakia.
  • Germany's violation of the treaty: Sudetenland

    Germany's violation of the treaty: Sudetenland
    •Hitler moved his troops into demilitarized land, claiming that did the treaty redeemed France and Russia threatening Germany's sovereignty.
  • Germany's violation the treaty: Nazi Soviet nonaggression pact

    Germany's violation the treaty: Nazi Soviet nonaggression pact
    •August 23, 1939, the enemies, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the German Soviet nonaggression pact in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against others for the next 10 years. But not long after Hitler declared war on the Soviet union in June 1941.
  • Germany's violation of the treaty: invasion of Poland

    Germany's violation of the treaty: invasion of Poland
    •The invasion of Poland was significant due to their circumstances in which it was invaded. After an agreement between Germany and Russia; the two nations claimed one half of Poland each. And on October 6 Germany and the Soviet forces took over Poland from the Polish army and people.