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Pre-WW2

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    League of Nations established

  • Treaty of Versailles signed

    Treaty of Versailles signed
    This was a treaty that was signed after WW1 was over.
  • French Occupation of the Ruhr

    French Occupation of the Ruhr
    Paris ordered troops into the Ruhr reluctantly, because the Weimar government had deliberately failed to honour the terms of the Versailles treaty
  • Beer Hall Putsch

    Beer Hall Putsch
    Hitler’s attempt to overthrow the Weimar government of Ebert and establish a right wing nationalistic one in its place.
  • Dawes Plan

    Dawes Plan
    The Dawes Plan of 1924 was made to take Weimar Germany to return Weimar’s economy to some form of stability.
  • Locarno Pact

    Locarno Pact
    In the major treaty the powers individually and collectively guaranteed the common boundaries of Belgium, France, and Germany as specified in the Treaty of Versailles of 1919.
  • Italy became a fasicist state

    Italy became a fasicist state
    Italy expected huge territorial gains and economic benefit for switching sides in World War One that is why italy becomes fasicst
  • Germany admitted to the League of Nations

    Germany admitted to the League of Nations
    Germany joined the League demonstrating its move out of economic depression and toward normal diplomatic status.
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact

    Kellogg-Briand Pact
    The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an agreement to outlaw war
  • Stock Market crash in the USA

    Stock Market crash in the USA
    The market crash was caused because the prices of the stocks just started to go down and down. Causing the money to be lost
  • Japan Invaded Manchuria

    Japan Invaded Manchuria
    In 1931, the Japanese Kwangtung Army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria, they did this because they wanted the control all of East Asia.
  • Hoover moratorium on reparations

    Hoover moratorium on reparations
    a plan that President Herbert Hoover hoped would ease the international economic crisis and provide time for recovery.
  • Hitler came to Power ( appointed Chancellor)

    Hitler came to Power ( appointed Chancellor)
    Hitler's entrance to the rise of power was when President HIndenburg appointed him as Chancellor
  • Enabling Act

    Enabling Act
    This was a law that Hitler wanted passed. If this law was passed then adolf hitler's dictorship would officially be allowed. And all of democracy would end in Germany
  • Dachau concentration camp opened

    Dachau concentration camp opened
    This was the first concentration camp that was for political prisoners. Such as German communists, and social democrates, also homosexuals, and trade unionists
  • Germany Left the League of Nations

    Germany Left the League of Nations
    Germany left the league of nations because of the league's refusal to end arms limitations imposed on Germany after World War I.
  • Night of the Long Knives

    Night of the Long Knives
    the night of the long knives had to do with Hitler wanting other leaders to fight between each others
  • Nuremburg Decrees

    Nuremburg Decrees
    THese laws were basically where the citenzship was taken from the German jews
  • Remilitarization of Germany

    Remilitarization of Germany
    This was after Germany had left the league of the nations, he had ordered for the military to be completely reenforced.
  • Italy invaded Ethiopia

    Italy invaded Ethiopia
    The reason for why Italy invades Ethiopia is because Italy wants to get revenge on the defeat of Italy
  • Germany reoccupied the Rhineland

    Germany reoccupied the Rhineland
    Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany.
  • Spanish Civil War erupted

    Spanish Civil War erupted
    the spanish civil war was practically practice for the world war 2.
  • Rome-Berlin Axis

    Rome-Berlin Axis
    This was an alliance between Germany and Italy
  • Anti-comintern Pact Between Germany and Japan

    Anti-comintern Pact Between Germany and Japan
    Germany and Japan created this pact becuase they had come into conflict with Russia on their quest for expansion
  • Anschluss

    Anschluss
    An "Anschluss" (union) between Germany and Austria, in fact annexing the smaller nation into a greater Germany.
  • Germany annexes Sudetenland

    Germany annexes Sudetenland
    Hitler went after Sudentenland because there were many ethnic germans there
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    Stands for " The Night Of Broken Glass". This was a major outbreak of violence against the jews
  • Munish Pact

    Munish Pact
    The pact between Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain was so that they secured Hitler's Demands.
  • Germany occupied remainder of Czechoslovakia

    Germany occupied remainder of Czechoslovakia
    After the Anschluss conquering Czechoslovakia was his next ambition.
  • Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact

    Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact
    This pact was so that the two nations whould not fight
  • Germany invaded Poland

    Germany invaded Poland
    With this invasion World War 2 had started. Adolf ordered for poland to be bombarded so that he could recooperate lost territory
  • Britain and France declared war

    Britain and France declared war
    Britain and France were allies to Poland and they declared war on Germany,
  • Soviet Union invaded Poland

    Soviet Union invaded Poland
    The soviet union declared that the Polish government has ceased to exist
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    Phony war

    A war in which nothing was happening