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Bolshevik revolution
A revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923. It took place through an armed insurrection in Petrograd.This revolution is also known a the October Revolution which had followed and capitalized on the February Revolution earlier in the year. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
In the city of Brest-Litovsk, Russia signed a treaty with the Central Powers ending its participation in World War I. With this treaty, Germany reinforced the western front with Eastern troops. -
Mussolini rises to power
Benito Mussolini came to power by forming the Fascist Party in 1919. Italy was in a state of unrest and the Fascist Party began gaining support on a national level.
By 1922, the country's chaos continued and Mussolini and his Fascist Party gathered and traveled to Rome. After he arrived, King Victor Emmanuel III requested that Mussolini start forming a government in the hopes that he could restore order and prevent a communist takeover. -
Paris Peace Conference
Conference organized by the victors of World War I to negotiate the peace treaties between the Allied and Associated Powers and the defeated Central Powers, that concluded with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. It lasted until January 21, 1920 with a few intervals. The Conference also imposed huge reparations on German. -
The Roaring Twenties
It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe. The decade was known as the 'crazy years, emphasizing the era's social, artistic and cultural dynamism. -
Creations of the USSR
Historical document which formed the constitutional basis for the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a multinational state. -
The Great Depression
Was a worldwide economic depression that lasted 10 years. Began en the United States, on “Black Thursday," October 24, 1929. Over the next four days, stock prices fell 22% in the stock market crash of 1929. The Great Depression had begun earlier in August when the economy contracted. The Great Depression lasted until the beginning of World War II. -
Black Thursday
The first day of the stock market crash of 1929. That was the worst stock market crash in U.S. Stock market had already fallen almost 20%. -
Japan invaded Manchuria
This event began when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. After the war, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo. Their occupation lasted until the Soviet Union and Mongolia launched the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation in 1945.
This event lasted the 27th of February 1932. -
New deal
It was an economic policy program launched by the President of the United States, Roosevelt, between 1933 and 1937, which aimed to fight against the effects of the Great Depression in the country. -
Hitler is named 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. -
Germany annexed the Czech region of Sudetenland
It began with the German annexation of Sudetenland as outlined by the Munich Agreement. Adolf Hitler justified the invasion by the purported suffering of the ethnic Germans living in these regions. The Sudetenland annexation by Nazi Germany was detrimental to the future defense of crippled Czechslovakia as the extensive Czechoslovak border fortifications were also located in the same area. It lasted on 1945. -
Italy annexed Albania
Military campaign betweem 7-12 of April 1939 by the Kingdom of Italy against the Kingdom of Albania. The conflict was a result of the imperialist policies of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Albania was rapidly overrun, its ruler, King Zog I, forced into exile, and the country made part of the Italian Empire as a protectorate in personal union with the Italian crown. -
Germany invaded Polonia
1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. The German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea. Adolf Hitler was the nazi leader who claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, Britain and France weren´t convinced and on September 3, they declared war on Germany, initiating World War II.
