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THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES SIGNED
Germany reluctantly signed the Theaty as post of the Paris Peace Conference in the hall of mirrors at the palace of versailles. -
THE GLOBAL DEPRESSION BEGINS
The depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the western industrialized world. -
HITLER BECOMES CHANCELLOR
President Hinderburg names Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, as chancellor of Germany. -
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
Started as a revolt by right-wing Spanish military officers in Spanish Morocco and spreads to mainland Spain. -
ROME BERLIN AXIS: HITLER-MUSSOLINI ALLIANCE
Mussolini amounced from the Milan cathedral that Germsny and Italy had formed a Rome-Berlin Axis. -
ANSCHLUSS WITH AUSTRIA
Austrian and German Nazis together attempled a coup. An authoritian right-wing government then took power in Austria. -
THE MUNICH AGREEMENT
British and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edoudard Daladier sing the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Hitler. -
NAZIS INVADE CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Hitler's forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia, which was a vain attempt to prevent Germany's imperial aims. -
THE NAZI-SOVIET NON-AGGRESSION PACT
Before World War II, representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet union met and signed it. -
NAZIS INVADED POLAND
Hitler's decision was a gamble. The Wehrmacht wasn't at full stregth and the German economy was still locked.
