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Treaty of Versailles signed
The treaty of peace between Allies Powers and the German Republic after WWI. The united started refused to ratify the treaty because membership in the League of Nations was tied to it. -
League of nations established
The first international organization for peace of its time. it was unfortunately weakened by non-participation of some of the major powers. -
Benito Mussolini takes power in Italy
the worlds first fascist dictatorship, Benito Mussolini because president and dictator in Italy. He terrorized the people and the king into allowing him to come to power. This was a huge influence on Hitler. -
Stock Market Crash in the USA
Trading fraud brought on the collapse of the American economy. This led to a worldwide depression, known as the Great Depression. -
Japan invaded Manchuria
Japanese invasion into China and subsequent creation of the puppet-state of Manchuria. This failed to react to japan's aggressive invasion of a sovereign state -
Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany
German president Hindenburg's desperate attempt to stabilize Germany's chaotic political climate, and to control Hitler's terrorizing of Germany. Which failed to do so, and made Hitler more powerful. -
Italy invaded Ethiopia
Mussolini invaded a territory of their own. \this was another example of the failure of the League of Nations as little was done to stop the Italians or to assist the invaded country. -
Germany reoccupied the Rhineland
Hitler gambled and invaded this territory on the hope that it would not precipitate a French military response. No allied response occurred and this former French territory remilitarized and brought back under complete German control -
Germany's Anschluss with Austria
The concept of uniting Germanic-speaking peoples in Germany and Austria after WWI. This union was forbidden in 1919, but was accomplished without protest by hitler in 1938 -
Munich Agreement
Hitler and Mussolini were able to force British prime minster, and French president into giving Germany the Sudetenland portion of Czechoslovakia. -
Germany occupied Czechoslovakia
Following the annexation pf the Sudetenland, Germany marched in and occupied the remainder of the country. -
Germany invaded Poland
This German invasion ended Allied appeasement of Germany. When Germany invaded the Allied declared was two days later.
