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Treaty of Versailles Signed
It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand -
Washington Naval Conference
The Washington Naval Conference or the Washington Disarment conference was a military conferene called by US President Warren G. Harding. It was attended by nine countries: US, Japan, China, France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal. -
Mussolini Becomes Prime Minister
The King handed over power to Mussolini by asking him to form a new government. Mussolini had a wide support in the military and among the industial agrarian elites. In 1922 he was appointed prime minister -
Beer Hall Putsch
Hitler and his associates planned to seize Munich and later use it as a base for a march against Germany's Weimar Republic government. -
Death of Lenin
The cause of his death is a stroke but some believe he was poisined by Stalin. -
Dawes Plan
The Dawes Plan was proposed by the Dawes Committee as an attempt to solve the World War I reparations problem whch had afflicted international politics following World Wara I and the Treaty of Versailles. -
Mein Kampf Published
Mein Kampf (My Struggle) is an autobiography by Adolf Hitler explaining his idealoligies and plans. He said that this book should not be read aloud. -
Hirohito Crowed Emperor
Two years after the death of his father Hirohito became the 124th monarch of Japan. His rein name was called Showa meaning 'Enlightened Peace'. -
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1st Five Year Plan
It was a list of economic goals created by Stalin based onhis policy of socialism in one country. He later edited the plan to include the creation of collective farming stystems to destroy kulaks as a class. -
Wall Street Crash
It was the Stock Market crash which led to a world-wide collapse of share values and triggered the Great Depression- 10 years of economic slump and extreme levels of unemployment across all the industrialized countries apart from the Soviet Union -
Dachau Built
Dachau was the first Nazi concentration camp after Adolf hitler became chancellor of Germany. It inittially housed political prisoners however it eventually evolved into a death camp of thousands of Jews.