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The World Between The Wars

By Abulph
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    Hyperinflation in Germany

    Money in Germany quickly became worthless, with 4.2 trillion marks equalling one American dollar.
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  • Mussolini organize fascist party in Italy

    Mussolini organize fascist party in Italy
    By October 1922, Italy seemed to be slipping into political chaos. The Black Shirts marched on Rome and Mussolini presented himself as the only man capable of restoring order. King Victor Emmanuel invited Mussolini to form a government. Mussolini gradually dismantled the institutions of democratic government and in 1925 made himself dictator, taking the title 'Il Duce'.

  • Stalin becomes leader of soviet union

    Stalin becomes leader of soviet union
    Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Georgian-Soviet revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He governed the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.

  • Hitler Writes & Publishes Mein Kampf

    Hitler Writes & Publishes Mein Kampf
    Mein Kampf, or My Struggle is an autobiography written by Adolf Hitler. He wrote it while he was imprisoned for political crimes.

  • Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
    President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. Hitler began to create a police state and set the Nazi Party in charge.

  • Japan Withdraws From League of Nations

    Japan Withdraws From League of Nations
    The Japanese delegation, defying world opinion, withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly today after the assembly had adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria.

  • Hitler becomes Prime Minister of Germany

    Hitler becomes Prime Minister of Germany
    On August 19th, 1934 Hitler becomes the Prime Minister of Germany. This marks the date Hitler truly became the dictator of Germany. Source
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    U.S. Passes Neutrality Acts

    Three different neutrality packs were signed (1935,1937, and 1939) Source

  • Italy invades ethiopia

    Italy invades ethiopia
    The aim of invading Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige.

  • Hitler sends troop into Rhineland

    Hitler sends troop into Rhineland
    Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany.

  • Japan invades China

    Conflict that broke out when China began full-scale resistance to the expansion of Japanese influence in its territory (which had begun in 1931). In an effort to unseat the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, the Japanese occupied large areas of eastern China in 1937–38.

  • Munich Conference

    Munich Conference
    The Munich Conference was when leaders of Italy, France, and Great Britian allowed Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia. Source

  • German- Soviet non aggression pact

    German- Soviet non aggression pact
    Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.

  • Germany Invades Poland

    Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced. On September 3, they declared war on Germany, initiating World War II.

  • Triparite pact

    The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Japan and Italy. They become allies