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On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles, a treaty to establish peace after WWI, was signed by the Allies. Out of the 440 total clauses of the the treaty, 414 were about punishing Germany, while the other 26 were mostly about the League of Nations.
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During the "Roaring 20s" economy boom, Warren G. Harding, a Republican Ohio native, took office. He declined the League of Nations and signed a different treaty with Germany.
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At its post-war high, unemployment in Britain reached 2.5 million on July 19, 1921.
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On October 22, 1922, liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain, David Lloyd George resigned. Much political turmoil followed his resignation.
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After five years of constantly overthrowing old and new governments, the Russian Revolution finally ended in 1922.
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After Benito Mussolini was appointed the Premier of Italy, democracy declined significantly.
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After two failed assassination attempts in 1918, Lenin died after a series of three strokes, two of which left him paralyzed and mute until he died in early 1924.
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The Dawes Plan, named after Calvin Coolidge's vice president Charles Dawes, was signed to help Germany out with their reparations payments by making each payment smaller.
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Joseph Stalin, the man who turned Russia around, set his first Five Year Plan into motion in October of 1928. These plans industrialized the previously agricultural Russia.
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Mussolini turned Italy into a one party system, meaning that anyone who opposed him was killed, exiled, or otherwise dealt with.
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Raymond Poincare, who served as president and premier in France, resigned in July of 1929. Political turmoil followed.
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The United States stock market crashed on August 24, 1929, resulting in the Great Depression for the US and many European nations.
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The Stalinist Purges, in which Stalin had anyone who opposed or threatened him killed or exiled, began in Russia in 1933.
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On February 10, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, as the Nazis were the majority party in the country.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the 32nd President of the United States in 1933. He started the "New Deals" system to try and fix the economy.
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Paul von Hindenburg died on August 2, 1934, and Adolf Hitler became "Der Fuhrer."
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In late 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia to try and take their land, because other major European countries had African colonies, and they wanted to start an empire too.
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After invading Ethiopia in October of 1935, the Italian army won over the Ethiopian army and took over some of Eastern Africa.
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The Spanish Civil War provided a practice round for the Nazis to dee what they could do in terms of war.
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FDR won reelection with more than 60% of the vote against his opponent, Alf Landon, due to his massive popularity and success with the "New Deals" plan.
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Neville Chamberlain was the Prime Minister of Britain from 1937 until 1940, about six months after WWII began.
