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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (also known as the Brest Peace in Russia) was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I -
Paris Peace Conference
The Paris Peace Conference was the meeting that inaugurated the international settlement after World War I, to agree on peace conditions with the countries of the Central Powers: Germany, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Austria and Hungary, the latter two as representatives of the disappeared Austro-Hungarian Empire. -
The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties was a 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 rise to power
Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) came to power as the prime minister of Italy and the leader of the National Fascist Party. ... He forcefully governed Italy until 1943 when the Allied invasion of the country led to his downfall and execution. His rise to power was remarkable. -
Creation of the USSR
The Treaty of Creation of the USSR is a document that legalizes the creation of the union of several Soviet Republics to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Similarly, the Declaration of Creation of the USSR was signed, which was considered as a political introduction to the Treaty. -
Bolshevik revolution
The term Russian Revolution groups together all the events that led to the overthrow of the imperial tsarist regime and the prepared establishment of another, Republican Leninist, between February and October 1917, which led to the creation of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. -
Black Thursday
On this date, a then-record number of shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange by panicked investors, marking the onset of the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression. -
The Grat Deppresion
he Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. Worldwide gross domestic product (GDP) fell by an estimated 15%. -
Japan invaded Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. ... Their occupation lasted until the Soviet Union and Mongolia launched the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation in 1945. -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or führer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. His plan, embraced by much of the German population, was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful, unified one-party state. -
Germany annexed the Czech región of Sudetenland
Leaders of Nazi Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy signed an agreement that allowed the Nazis to annex the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia that was home to many ethnic Germans. Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Hitler had threatened to take the Sudetenland by force. -
New Deal
New Deal is the name given by the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt to his interventionist policy launched to fight the effects of the Great Depression in the United States. -
Italy annexed Albania
The Italian invasion of Albania was a brief military campaign by the Kingdom of Italy against the Kingdom of Albania. The conflict was a result of the imperialist policies of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. -
Germany invaded Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun. The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war.
