Pre-WW2

League of Nations established

Period: Mar 27, 1919 to Mar 27, 1920

Treaty of Versailles signed

Jun 28, 1919

This was a treaty that was signed after WW1 was over.

French Occupation of the Ruhr

Jan 27, 1923

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

Nov 9, 1923

Hitler’s attempt to overthrow the Weimar government of Ebert and establish a right wing nationalistic one in its place.

Dawes Plan

Mar 27, 1924

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

Locarno Pact

Mar 27, 1925

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

Mar 27, 1925

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

Mar 27, 1926

Germany joined the League demonstrating its move out of economic depression and toward normal diplomatic status.

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Aug 27, 1928

The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an agreement to outlaw war

Stock Market crash in the USA

Oct 29, 1929

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

Mar 30, 1931

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

Mar 30, 1931

a plan that President Herbert Hoover hoped would ease the international economic crisis and provide time for recovery.

Hitler came to Power ( appointed Chancellor)

Jan 31, 1933

Hitler's entrance to the rise of power was when President HIndenburg appointed him as Chancellor

Enabling Act

Mar 23, 1933

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

Mar 27, 1933

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

Mar 28, 1934

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

Jun 30, 1934

the night of the long knives had to do with Hitler wanting other leaders to fight between each others

Nuremburg Decrees

Mar 28, 1935

THese laws were basically where the citenzship was taken from the German jews

Remilitarization of Germany

Mar 28, 1935

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

Italy invaded Ethiopia

Mar 28, 1935

The reason for why Italy invades Ethiopia is because Italy wants to get revenge on the defeat of Italy

Germany reoccupied the Rhineland

Mar 28, 1936

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

Jun 28, 1936

the spanish civil war was practically practice for the world war 2.

Rome-Berlin Axis

Oct 28, 1936

This was an alliance between Germany and Italy

Anti-comintern Pact Between Germany and Japan

Nov 28, 1936

Germany and Japan created this pact becuase they had come into conflict with Russia on their quest for expansion

Anschluss

Mar 28, 1938

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

Germany annexes Sudetenland

Mar 28, 1938

Hitler went after Sudentenland because there were many ethnic germans there

Kristallnacht

Mar 28, 1938

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

Munish Pact

Sep 29, 1938

The pact between Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain was so that they secured Hitler's Demands.

Germany occupied remainder of Czechoslovakia

Mar 28, 1939

After the Anschluss conquering Czechoslovakia was his next ambition.

Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact

Mar 28, 1939

This pact was so that the two nations whould not fight

Germany invaded Poland

Mar 28, 1939

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

Sep 3, 1939

Britain and France were allies to Poland and they declared war on Germany,

Soviet Union invaded Poland

Sep 17, 1939

The soviet union declared that the Polish government has ceased to exist

Phony war

Period: Sep 28, 1939 to May 28, 1940

A war in which nothing was happening