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The Road to World War II
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The Treaty of Versailles signed
World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Negotiated among the Allied powers with little participation by Germany -
The Global Depression begins
The Great Depression (1929-1939) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the USA began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929. -
Hitler becomes 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. -
The Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War begins as a revolt by right-wing Spanish military officers in Spanish Morocco and spreads to mainland Spain. -
Rome Berlin Axis:Hitler-Mussolini Alliance
on 25 and 26 October, 1936, Germany and Italy signed and a treaty with protocols, which together formed the origin of the now famous Rome-Berlin Axis -
Anschluss with Austria
Austria was annexed by the Third Reich on 12 March 1938. There had been several years of pressure from supporters in both Austria and Germany (both Nazis and non-Nazis) for the "Heim ins Reich" movement -
The Munich Agreement
British and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Adolf 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, which was a vain attempt to prevent Germany’s imperial aims. -
The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. -
Nazis invade Poland
At 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory.
