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Treaty of Versailles
The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans. -
League of Nations Created
The League of Nations was created by the Treaty of Versailles by which nations would help preserve peace and prevent future wars by pledging to respect and protect each other's territory and political independence. -
Dictator of Italy
Benito Mussolini established himself as dictator of Italy in 1924 and founded the ideology of Fascism. -
Dictator of USSR
Joseph Stalin established himself as the Dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. -
Effects of Great Depression
The effects of the great economic crisis of the Great Depression are felt in virtually all corners of 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. -
Head of Nazi Party
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany and head of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, better known as the Nazi Party. -
President of the US
FDR becomes President of the US and implements the beginning of the New Deal with the Hundred Days. -
Neutrality Acts
US Congress passed a series of Neutrality Acts (1935–1939) designed to avoid American involvement in another World War by preventing loans to those countries taking part in such conflicts. -
Hitler Order's Troops
Adolf Hitler ordered German troops to invade Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939. The Germans also took over Bohemia, and established a protectorate over Slovakia. -
US Declare Neutrality
The United States declares its neutrality on September 5, 1939. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese bomb the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
