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The end of WW1
Germany signed the treaty of Versailies which cost Germany many outer colonies in the pacific and Africa with colonies in the north of the pacific going to Japan and south to Australia and Newzealand. This treaty also forced Germany and its allies to take the blae for the war. -
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Treaty of Rapallo
Germany beomes the 1st nation to recognise soviet Russia the terms of agreement were negotiated by German foreign minister Walter Rathenau and Soviet Russian foreign minister Chicherin with the mutual agreement of no claims from WW1. -
Italy becomes a dictatorship
King victor Emmannuel 3rd invites Mussolini to form a coalition govnmet in Italy Mussolini eventually turns ti into a facist dictatorship there was little resistance to this regim as the general popultaion of Italy felt cheated that it didnt receive any spoils from WW1 -
Hitlers "Beer hall putsch"
This event hapened in a beer hall located in Munich , there the Nazis captured Von Kahr the head of Bavaria a vital region in south east Germany this capture didnt last long as Hitler and his Nazis were stomped on by German forces leading to some causalties and 5year prison sentnce for Hitler which he oserved 1 year of in that time he wrote a book called "Mein kamf" arguing that the German race was superioir. -
Regime leaders deaths
Soviet leader Lennin passes away gving power to Stalin.
Facists in Italy murder socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti this murder was caused by the verbal attacks towards Mussolini and the facist regime his death was seen as a threat which caused there to be very little opposition to the facist regime. -
Locarno pact
Hosted in Locarno,Switzerland attended by Great britain,Germany,France,Italy,Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Germany signed arbiteration treaties with France and Belgium so that Germany was allowed into the League of nations. -
strikes
Strikes in Britain cause nations activities to halt, a revolt in NIcaragua is responded to by U.S forces which occupy the area until 1933. -
Hitlers temporary silence
Hitler had been forbidden to speak in public until 1927 by the Bavarian government. He was still on parole, facing the possibility of being deported back to his Austrian homeland. The ban was short-lived however. It was lifted in the spring of 1927. Hitler then came to Berlin and gave a speech before a crowd of about 5000 supporters. -
The wall street crash
The stock market crash during 1929 was and is the most devastating stock market crash America had seen taking into account the duration and damage it caused. The crash disrupted nearly all western industrialised nations. -
Salt march
In 1930 in protest of the salt tax Mahatma Gandhi proposed a non-violent march. The salt tax prohibited the act of producing or selling salt which the British used to help them monopolise, because of the tax workers werent allowed to aquire salt from the aalt but were instead forced to buy it. -
Invasion of Manchuria
On September 19 the Kwantung Army of Japan invaded Manchuria within a few days the Japanese forces had taken control of various strategic positons in south Manchuria . The reason China failed to respond to this invasions was because the Chinese government was not quite united. -
Rosevelt Elected
The election of president Rosevelt was the start of Americas recovery from the wall street crash which guaranteed him the title of the 1st U.S president to stay in office for more than 2 terms. -
Hitler elected chancellor of Germany
With the increasing popularity of the Nazi party after the end of WW1 on January 30th 1932 Hitler was elected on the same night the Nazi party organised a large torchlight party to celebrate. -
Germany leaves League of nations
The 1st foreign policy measure made by the Nazis was topull out of the League of nations as a result Germany was released from international control over the nations rearmament. -
Promotion to furer
As the elderly president of Germany grew closer to death while in his country home the Nazis and Hitler noticing this began to capitilise on this eventually being able to make Hitler the furer of Germany giving him absolute control. -
Invasion of the demilitarised zone
Germany challenges the Versaillies treaty by invading the "Rhineland" a demilitarised zone though his advisors opposed this.
The German forces sent were given orders to retreat if met with French resistance.
