Roots to world war 2

the roaring twenties

Period: Jan 1, 1918 to Oct 29, 1929

treaty of versailles signed to end WW1

Jun 28, 1919

19th amendment grants U.S women the right to vote

Aug 18, 1920

Stalin becomes leader of soviet union

Apr 3, 1922

Hitler writes Mein Kampf

Jul 18, 1925

Mussolini becomes leader of Italy

Dec 24, 1925

Kellogg-Briand pact signed to outlaw way

Aug 27, 1928

Stock market crash

Oct 24, 1929

The great depression in U.S

Period: Oct 29, 1929 to Jan 1, 1941

Japan invades Manchuria

Period: Sep 19, 1931 to Feb 27, 1932

Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

Roosevelt takes office & new deal starts

Mar 4, 1933

New deal

Period: Mar 4, 1933 to Dec 31, 1936

Germany begins re-arming in violation of the treaty of versailles

Mar 16, 1935

U.S passes 1st neutrality act

Aug 31, 1935

Nuremburg laws passed

Sep 15, 1935

Italy annexes Ethiopia

Period: Oct 1, 1935 to Mar 1, 1936

Germany re-militarizes the Rhineland

Mar 7, 1936

Spanish civil war

Period: Jul 17, 1936 to Apr 1, 1939

Rome-Berlin axis treaty signed

Oct 21, 1936

FDR elected as president for the 2nd time

Mar 4, 1937

Japan invades China

Period: Jul 7, 1937 to Sep 2, 1945

Anschluss (Germany annexes Austria)

Mar 12, 1938

Germany annexes Czechoslovakia

Mar 28, 1938

Munich conference gives Hitler control of the Sudetenland

Sep 30, 1938

Germany annexes the Sudetenland

Oct 21, 1938

Kristallnacht

Nov 9, 1938

Italy annexes Albania

Apr 7, 1939

Soviet-Germany nonaggression pact signed

Aug 14, 1939

Germany invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

U.S enacts “cash & carry plan”

Sep 21, 1939

U.S makes destroyer deal with Great Britain

Sep 2, 1940

Lend-lease act passed by the U.S

Mar 11, 1941