Ww2

WW2 - EVENTS LEADING UP TO IT

  • World War 1 ends

    German defeat
  • League of Nations

    Was an intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
  • The signing of the treaty of Versailles

    was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
  • Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party.

  • Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch

  • Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" published.

    Mein Kampf - A biography of Adolf Hitler from his solitary boyhood in Austria to his bizarre death in Berlin
  • Germany admitted to League of Nations.

  • Stock Market on Wall Street crashes.

  • Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany.

  • Franklin Roosevelt elected President of the United States.

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.

  • The German Reichstag burns.

    The Reichstag building is a historical edifice in Berlin, Germany, constructed to house the Imperial Diet, of the German Empire.