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Period: to
The Interwar Years 1919-1939
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The treaty of Versailles is Signed
treaty of versailles Ends World War One
Heavy reparations payments on Germany.
Made Germany to sign the treaty -
League of Nations:
The world's first international security organization goes into operation.
The United States does not join -
Stalin in power in Russia
Stalin defeats the last of his major rivals for power in the period after Lenin's death -
Depression
the stock market chash
the worst in most of Europe from the summer of 1931 -
Japan invades Manchuria
Japanese armies open a long undeclared war to China
in Manchuria.
to resstrain Japen -
Third Reich
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
is the Nazi party -
Hitler is Appointed Chancellor of Germany
chaos of the German government,
President Paul von Hindenburg declares Hitler chancellor,
the first major step in Hitler's ascent to dictatorship. -
Mussolini's Abyssinian War
Sept 1,1935 -May 1,1936
Italy's invsion of Abyssinia
Italy fail
Hitler's supports of Mussolini's war
Germany and Itlay into alliance -
Spanish Nationalists Bomb Guernica
The small northern town of Guernica is bombed
civilians are gunned down
1500 die and 800 are wounded
but the military targets in the town remain intact. -
The German Reichstag Passes the Enabling Act The Enablin Act
The German Reichstag Passes the Enabling Act The Enabling Act gives Hitler the power to issue decrees with the status of law. -
Britain and France Declare War on Germany
Hitler's continued aggression in Eastern Europe,
Britain and France go to war with Germany
to stop Hitler's bid for global hegemony -
