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Japan realized it did not have enough experience in aviation. 50 French military pilots assisted Japan to establish an Airforce.
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Woodrow Wilson U.S. President, David Lloyd George Prime Minister of the UK, Georges Clemenceau who was the Premier of France and Vittorio Orlando who was the Prime Minister of Itally. These guys were know as the "Big 4".
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The Czar and his family were executted by the red army in the middle of the Societ civil war before the "Whites" were anti-Boleshevik forces could rescue them.
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A huge rise in the price of rice caused farmers who were recieving low prices from rice merchants to riot. burning police stations and government buildings.
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Trotsky worked to prevent desertions or mutinies in the red army. Special investigative teams interviewed and then executed soldiers who retreated from their positions, broke ranks or deserted.
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Irish for parliment, this group was formed in 1919 designed to seperate Irish government from the rest of Great Britain.
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A guerrilla group called the Irish republican army fought British troops to free Ireland from British control.
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The White army also called the Cossacks had run short of supplies so when the Boleshiviks attacked they rapidily fell apart and the red army captured Kiev.
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Friedrich Ebert became the president of the German Republic
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Benito Mussolini forms a group who wants to eliminate the senate, gaurantee land for poor farmers, and improve working conditions with the help of a single leader instead of democracy.
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These were thugs who broke union strikes, committed Arson, and beat up socialists. They claied to be saving Italy from Communist.
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Italian Fascists Attecked the Office of the Socialist Party's Newspaper
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German drafts a new constitution called the Weimar Republic which was democratic but unstable.
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Flappers, silent movies and more automobiles on the streets.
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5 million americans joined the Ku Klux Klan.
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Americas' total wealth more then doubled.
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Millions of ophrans and abandoned children crowded cities and towns across the Soviet Union due to war and famine.
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America doesn't join.
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During the 20's writers such as Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald expanded literature to be rebellious realistic and even profane.
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Members of the army under leader Wolfgang Kapp tried to overthrow the Weimar republic. It failed because the citizens went on strike refusing to work for the rebels.
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The first Bentley luxury cars are delievered to customers in Great Britain.
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He was a conservative republican who didn't want to be in the League of Nations.
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IRA troops tried to wipeout British spies in Dublin. They shot 19 killing 14. In response, British troops drove trucks into a soccer game shooting into the crowd. 14 civilians were killed including one of the players and 65 people were wounded. This was the inspiration for the U2 song "Bloody Sunday".
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The popularity of the Fascist movement increased because Italians wanted a strong economy and strong foreign policy. They won 45 seats in the government in their first election.
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These new laws made it more difficult for foreigners to get into America.
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The UK signs a trade agreement with the Russian Soviets.
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Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan came to Britain on an official visit.
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Britain realized that the Irish would likely never stop fighting, and it was costing them casualities and money so they agreed to allow Ireland to have their own government.
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The first women were adimitted to the University of Cambridge to study for an academic degree.
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Britian, U.S.,Japan, France and Italy agreed to lessen their Navies.
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An agreement between US, Japan, China, France, GB, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Portugal that everyone should have access to Chinese trade.
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Stalin was named general secretary of the communist party and aligns himself against other Soviet leaders like Leon Trotsky
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The Soviets and Germany agreed to cooraperate in order to help one and other economically, and to give back all territory that had changed hands in WW1.
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Soviet Agency glavlit established to censor all Soviet media.
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Italian children were taught to respect Mussolini and were involved in military after school activities including black uniforms and fake guns.
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A group of Fascists marched to take over Rome and the king did not use the army to stop them but instead decided to make Mussolini prime minister.
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Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy.
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Stalins Second 5 year plan made the Soviets a major steel producer and improved infrastructure such as communications and railways. Agriculturewas not as sucessful as farmers were evicted and the government took over control.
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The Reichstag building were the German and Parliament was burned by arson. The Nazi used the fire as an excuse to begin mass arrests of Communist citizens.
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This was the Soviets attempt to centralize all food production under the communist party.
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Italians Bomb and Occupy the Greek island of Corfu. The Italians claimed the bombing was retaliation for the murder of an Italian general but it was really to begin helping Italy expand it's territory during the war.
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The deadliest earthquake in Japanese history. A 7.9 magnitude earthquake killed 143,000 Japanese.
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Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party failed in an attempt to overthrow the German government.
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Germany introduced the rentenmark to stop hyperinflation. It was money that was backed by realstate.
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German money became worthless. Each U.S. dollar was worth 4,200,000,000,000 marks
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The Crown prince was born after three previous daughters. He is still alive today.
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An assassination attempt on Prince Hirohito by a communist Daisuke Namba. He injured another man but Hirohito was unharmed.
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Fascists had been fighting with the Socialist and Communist party but on this day they murdered the Socialist leader Metteitti. Five years later Italy had only the Fascist party.
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Vladmir Lenin hero of the Russian Revolution, died with no obvious succesor.
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This was an immigration act set up by America to limit Asains coming into the United States as well as Europeans.
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The Nazi regieme started murdered political leaders who opposed them. 85 people died during this purge and 1000 opponents were arrested.
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The general election was won by the conservative party under Stanley Bladwin. The bulk of British people still distrust Communism.
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Winston Churchill was named chancellor of the exchequer and he moved the British pound sterling back to the gold standard in an attempt to improve deflation. It backfired and British money was less than ever.
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Both were bootleggers during prohibitoin.
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The Russians and Japanese had been at war since 1904 and did not trust one another. This was an attempt to ease tensions between the two.
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Germany residents now spent 65 marks a day.
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The 1st Japanese radio coorparation was founded in Toyko.
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The legislature of Japan, called the diet passed a law extending the right to vote to all men 25 and older. Women still didn'y have the right to vote.
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Mussolini created a campaign to crush crime bosses in Southern Italy. He tortured suspected Mafiaosi and surpressed the crime gangs although he didn't destroy them.
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Mussolini named himself the Duce which means supreme leader.
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This was a general strike that lasted 9 days in protest against wage reductions for coal miners.1.7 million workers went out.The government was ready though and had volunteers to maintain essential services
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The first Transatlantice telephone call came from New York City to London.
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Mussolini devolops the Secret Police called the OFRA. They imprisoned a large number of Italians who were against Fascism.
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The labor movement tried to recruit peasant farmers to join the general federation of Japanese peasant unions but it was a dismal failure getting only 300 people.
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The government of Japan had issued earthquake bonds to overextended banks. When the government posed to remdem these bonds rumor spread that the banks holding these bonds would go bankrupt. There was a run on the banks by people and 37 banks went under.
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Mussolini promotes people having kids. Men with 6 children are exempt from taxes.
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A list of economic goals is created by Stalin to help the country improve militarily, industrially and fininacially. The prupose was to build up the countrys heavy industry.
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Leon Trotsky rival of Stalin is exiled to Kazakhstan.
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This was a crackdown on Socialists and Communists by the Japanese government. 1652 people were arrested. About 500 were tried publicly and showed the connection with the super Japanese communist party and the Labor movement.
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This act allowed voting for women to be equal with men in Great Britain. They had to be 21 years old.
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The Treaty between Mussolini and the Catholic Church which established the Vatcian City. This gave Mussolini authority with Catholics.
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Germany residents now spend 100 marks a day.
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Farmers in the midwest facing crought packed up everything they had into cars and left for California.
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Under FDR the government began giving relief to the poor and creating jobs for workers such as building dams, roads and airports.
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Unemployment was over 10% in this time period. There was lack of demand for traditional jobs like coal mining and ship building.
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The Germans started to rebuild military weapons against the treaty of Versailles.
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Mussolini Used a series of dams and canals to drain the Pontine marshes, a series of swamps in central Italy where malaria was frequent.
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The UK, Japan, France, Italy and the US sign an agreement to limit submarine warfare and naval ship moving.
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This was a 6.7 magnitude earthquake in which 1,400 people died.
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The Wushe people of Taiwan responded to oppression by Japanese authority by attacking a village and killing over 130 Japanese. In response the Japanese killed over 1000 indigenious people in retaleation.
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The Nazi party increased its number of seats in the government from 12 to 107.
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Mussolini forced university professors to swear an oath to only teach Fascism. Media was also censored.
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The Sakurakai or cherry blossom society was a secret group of young officers in the Japanese army who had the goal of creating military dictatorship. This group made two attempts to overthrow the government.
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After faking an explosion near a Japanese railroad falsy blaming the Chinese, Japanese forces invaded Manchuria taking several cities over a 5 month period.
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The British pound Sterling comes off the gold standard in order to slow inflation.
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An act of parliment of the United Kingdom. It made all common wealth areas equal to Britain under the law, this included Australia and Canada.
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Stalin promoted Socialist realism a propoganda type of art which glorifies the working class and its struggle for emancipation.
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Stalin continued Lenins work of educating kids in communist theories but also added more traditional acedmics, tests and expectations.
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The governments forced collectivization of agriculture created chaos. Nobody grew any sort of grain and 6 million people died from hunger.
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The British government returned Iraq to self rule in exchange for a military alliance.
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He ended the 3 term reign of republicans and he would serve for 4 terms himself.
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The Nazi party ruled by Adolf Hitler controlled the entire government as fuhrer(leader) with all power in his hands.
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Japan left the League of Nations after they critized Japan for invading Manchuria.
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Britain, France, Germany and Italy signed a treaty to balance power in the region. I t was suggested by Mussolini for international secruity.
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A violent typhoon hit Japan with wind speeds of 130 mph and a tidal wave of 13 feet. 2702 were dead, 334 missing and just under 15000 wounded.
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Sergey Kirov is head of the communist party in Leningrad is Assainated. This causes Stalin to systematically execute anybody who was believed to be against the communist party.
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His work is considered organic architecture.
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Italy invaded Ethiopia to boost Italian national prestiege.
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King George the fifth died at 70. His eldest son becomes Kind Edward the 8th.
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German military troops began making fortifications on the Rhine river. This was in direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles. This area was right next to Belgium and the Netherlands.
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Maxim Gorky was a famous soviet writer who supported Marxist and communist beliefs. He was a personal friend of Lenin.
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Hitler used the Spanish Civil War as an excuse to test his new military weapons in support of the rebel leader Francisco Franco.
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Hitler supervising the summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany and states that Blacks and Jews should not be allowed to participate. Jessie Owens ominates the track and field by winning 4 gold medals embarassing Hitler.
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1st BBC TV program is aired in Britain.
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Soviet Industrial Policy creates numerous new jobs-7.9 million by 1937.
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This was a war between the republic of China and the Empire of Japan. Japanese forces invaded China with vicotories in Shang hi and the Japanese capital NanKing. This ultimately became part of WW2.
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This plan Soviets devolep more armaments, tanks and weapons prior to WW2.
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This is when Germany took over Austria. This also was against the Treaty of Versailles.
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Under pressure from Nazi Germany the Fascists began passing legisaltion against Jews.
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Also called the night of broken glass. It was a series of cooridinated attacks of Jewish owned stores, buildings, and synagougs organized by the Nazi party. 91 Jews were killed, 1000 synagougs burned, 7000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
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Stalin tried to alline himself with Britain and France prior to WW2 but he recieved a lukewarm reception favoring Nazi Germany instead.
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This was a promise of non-aggression betwee the Nazis and Stalin. It only lasted until 1941 when Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
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Invasion of Poland was the beginning of WWll. It happened one week after the non aggression pact with the Soviet Union. The Nazis invaded from the North, South and West while the Soviets came from the East. Germany invaded Poland to gain key terriotories including the city of Danzig and the Polish coriddor. Germany and the Soviet Union ended up dividing Poland between them.
