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Treaty of Versailles Signed
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League of Nations
The world's first international security organization created after WWI to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. This event is significant as it shows efforts to stop world wars from happening again. -
Hopeful Years
An era of good feeling in European international relations witnesses major agreements that ease reparations through the Dawes Plan, the Young Plan, and the Locarno Treaties. Germany is also admitted into the League of Nations in these years. These events are significant as all countries made peace after WWI and Germany is settling their reparations. -
Stalin Comes Into Power
Stalin defeats the last of his major rivals for power in the time after Lenin's death. Stalin brings forced industrialization, brutal police repression, purges, deep suspicion towards the outside world, and rigid control over foreign Communist parties. This is significant as Stalin is making Russia into a very powerful country by changing everything. -
Industrialization and Starvation of Ukraine in USSR
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Great Depression
The American stock market crash starts a world-wide depression, it was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world. This is significant as many lost all their money and job from this, it effected everyone in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world. It lasted for 20 years, ending in 1939 -
Japan Invades Manchuria
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Hitler Becomes Dictator of German Empire
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Anglo-German Naval Agreement
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Italy Invades Ethiopia
Ethiopia, which Italy had unsuccessfully tried to conquer before, was an independent state. A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Benito Mussolini an excuse to intervene. Rejecting all arbitration offers, the Italians invaded Ethiopia on Oct. 3, 1935. This event was significant because Italy ended up winning and controlling Ethiopia in only seven months. -
Spanish Civil War
Civil war breaks out in Spain lasting until 1939. Germany and Italy support the insurgent Nationalist side and send arms and "volunteers"; Britain, France, and Russia support the Republican government but only Russia provides aid to them. This event is important as it shows groups rebelling and overthrowing their governments -
German Invasion of Poland
