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The Treaty of Versailles signed
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
The Global Depression begins
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
Following fresh elections won by his coalition, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, which began the process of transforming the Weimar Republic into Nazi Germany, a one-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of National Socialism. -
The Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War took place from 1936 to 1939 and was fought between the Republicans, who were loyal to the democratic, left-leaning Second Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists, a falangist group led by General Francisco Franco. -
Rome Berlin Axis: Hitler-Mussolini Alliance
The Italian invasion and annexation of Abyssinia had strained relations between Italy and its allies Britain and France, and Benito Mussolini finally repudiated Italy's alliance with them. Hitler then began planning to draw fascist Italy into an alliance with Nazi Germany. -
Anschluss with Austria
Anschlusswas the Nazi propaganda term for the annexing of Austria into Nazi Germany in March 1938. -
The Munich Agreement
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined. -
Nazis invade Czechoslovakia
The German occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945) began with the Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions, known collectively as the Sudetenland, under terms outlined by the Munich Agreement. -
The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, , named after the Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, officially the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,was a non-aggression pact signed between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in Moscow on 23 August 1939. -
Nazis invade Poland
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland , and alternatively the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiss in Germany, was a joint invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Free City of Danzig, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent, that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe.
