THE INTERWAR YEARS

By Sarahh Fernandez

  • BLACK THURSDAY

    BLACK THURSDAY
    Devastating series of fires that swept the state of Victoria, Australia

  • Bolshevik revolution

    Bolshevik revolution
    one of the most explosive political events of the twentieth century. The Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of csarist rule

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
    Peace treaty between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers that ended Russia's participation in World War I

  • Paris Peace Conference

    Paris Peace Conference
    Meeting of the victorious Allies after the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers.

  • The Roaring Twenties

    The Roaring Twenties
    Decade of economic growth and widespread prosperity, driven by recovery from wartime devastation and deferred spending, a boom in construction, and the rapid growth of consumer goods such as automobiles and electricity in North America and Europe and a few other developed countries

  • Mussolini rises to power

    Mussolini rises to power
    Benito Mussolini came to power as the prime minister of Italy and the leader of the National Fascist Party.

  • Creation of the USSR

    Creation of the USSR
    Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government which had replaced the autocratic regime of Tsar Nicholas II during World War I

  • The Great Deppresion

    The Great Deppresion
    Worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors.

  • Japan invaded Manchuria

    Japan invaded Manchuria
    The Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident

  • Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
    President Paul von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues.

  • new deal

    new deal
    series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States

  • Germany annexed the Czech región of Sudetenland

    Germany annexed the Czech región of Sudetenland
    Sudetenland: historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans.

  • Germany invaded Poland

    Germany invaded Poland
    German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory.

  • italy annexed Albania

    italy annexed Albania
    Brief military campaign by the Kingdom of Italy against the Kingdom of Albania