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THE ROAD TO WORLD WAR II
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The Treaty of Versailles signed
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
1929-1939. Was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany.. -
The Spanish Civil War
(1936-1939) Begins as a revolt by right-wing Spanish military officers in Spanish Morocco and spreads to mainland Spain. -
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 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
Anschluss was the Nazi propaganda term for the annexing of Austria into Nazi Germany. -
The Munich Agreement
British and French prime ministers (Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier) sign the Munich Pact with Hitler. The agreement averted the outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to German conquest. -
Nazis invade Czechoslovakia
Hitler’s forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia. A nation sacrificed on the altar of the Munich Pact. -
Nazis invade Poland
Also known as the September Campaign,was a joint invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Danzig, Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent, that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. -
The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
(1939-1945) Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
