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Following WW1 the 1919 Treaty of Versailles set out the terms for Germany's punishment which caused anger in Germany.
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Benito Mussolini established himself as dictator of Italy in 1924 and founded the ideology of fascism.
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The effects of the great economic crisis of the Great Depression is felt around the world. Anti-democratic countries form Totalitarianism governments that assert absolute and total control over the public and private lives of people and begin to adopt policies of expansion and aggression led by dictators.
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany and and head of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, better known as the Nazi Party.
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FDR becomes President of the US and implements the beginning of the New Deal with the Hundred Days.
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US Congress passed a series of Neutrality Acts designed to avoid American involvement in foreign nations.
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General Francisco Franco overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War
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Hitler annexes the country of Austria into Germany
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In September 1938 France and Britain enact a policy of appeasement, agreeing to the German annexation of Czechoslovakia
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The Night of the Broken Glass occurs in which Nazis violently attack Jews and destroy Jewish property
