wwi to wwii

By Pedro H

  • 1918 October 29

    German Revolution starts

  • 1918 nonmember 11

    Armistice with Germany ending WW1 and evacuates the Rhineland

  • 1918 December 27

    Polish uprising against German rule

  • 1919 June

    The treaty of Versailles signed by Germany

  • 1919 January

    the peace conference is held and all powers attend

  • 1919 April

    the League of nations forms

  • 1920 November 1

    The meeting of league of nations in Geneva. And USA doesn’t join the league

  • 1921 January 24-29

    Conference is held without germany and decide that Germany must pay 269 billion gold marks and would also have to pay 12 % of germany's exports for 42 years

  • 1921 march 8

    Germany tries to negotiate the price they have to pay but fails.
    France occupied Ruhr Germany

  • 1921 April 27

    Germany's payment is dropped to 132 billion gold marks

  • 1921 May 1

    Germany agrees to the new conditions of the treaty meanwhile France continental to occupy Ruhr

  • 1921 May 1

    Germany agrees to the new conditions of the treaty meanwhile France continental to occupy Ruhr

  • 1921 August 24

    US didn't sign the treaty of Versailles so they made their own peace treaty with Austria and Germany.

  • 1921 August 24

    US didn't sign the treaty of Versailles so they made their own peace treaty with Austria and Germany.

  • 1921 November 12 to February 6

    Washington conference successfully reduces the size of the US, British, Japanese, French and Italian fleets. They all agreed to not construct anymore capital ships and the open door to China ends

  • 1921 November 12 to February 6

    Washington conference successfully reduces the size of the US, British, Japanese, French and Italian fleets. They all agreed to not construct anymore capital ships and the open door to China ends

  • 1922 April 16

    Germany soviet and soviet russia sign the treaty of rapallo that makes it so they take up diplomatic relations and each renounced all territorial and financial claims against the other following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and World War I

  • 1922 April 16

    Germany soviet and soviet russia sign the treaty of rapallo that makes it so they take up diplomatic relations and each renounced all territorial and financial claims against the other following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and World War I

  • 1922 October 28

    In a nationalist movement Mussolini disappointed with what Italy got from the war started The march on Rome

  • 1922 October 28

    In a nationalist movement Mussolini disappointed with what Italy got from the war started The march on Rome

  • 1923 January 9-11

    Britain decides that germany is late on its coal deliveries so france and belgium send engineers to Ruhr to speed up the process. The engineers were also sent along with 5 divisions that had heavy weapons that were meant to protect them during the occupation of rhineland
    The us withdraw troops in still occupied areas of germany

  • 1923 January 13

    Cuno, germany's chancellor starts a passive resistance that causes riots and strikes that are funded by printing more bills

  • 1923 September 26

    Gustav becomes new chancellor and ends the passive resistance. The economy also reaches its breaking point

  • 1923 October 21

    French supports the independence of the rhine republic in Aachen but the independence movement fails due to british disapproval

  • 1923 October 24

    Autonomous Pfalz gained its independence in speyer with the help of the french military but with a bit of time lose it due to brush disapproval.
    Bolivia declares martial law to counter the independence movement.
    President Ebert declares martial law in germany to keep bolivia under german control
    Turkey becomes a republic

  • 1923 November 8

    The beer hall putsch- Hitler leads the Nazi party to over throw the government

  • 1923 November 9

    The beer hall putsch fails and Hitler is captured by the police

  • 1924 January 21

    Vladimir lenin dies and joseph stalin taking his place. He begins to purge his rivals to make sure that he stays as a leader

  • 1924 February 1

    The UK gives diplomatic recognition to the soviet union

  • 1924 April 1

    Hitler is put in year jail for 5 years but will only end up serving 8 months

  • 1924 April 6

    Fascists win the elections in Italy

  • 1924 June 10

    Giacomo Matteotti is kidnapped and killed in Rome by an Italian Fascists

  • 1924 August 16

    Dawes plan is accepted and ends the allied occupation in Ruhr and sets a staggered form of payment for Germany

  • 1924 August 18

    France begins to withdraw from Ruhr

  • 1925 May 12

    Paul Von Hindenburg becomes the president of Germany

  • 1925 July 18

    Hitler's book Mein Kampf is published

  • 1925 December 1

    Locarno Treaties are signed

  • 1926 January 3

    Pangalos declares himself the dictator Greece

  • 1926 January 31

    British and Belgian Troops in cologne withdraw

  • 1926 April 4

    Pangalos is elected president

  • 1926 April 24

    Soviet union of Germany signed the treaty of Belgium

  • 1926 May 25

    A jew named Sholom Schwartzbard in Paris killed Sholom Symon Petliura a Ukrainian nationalist

  • 1926 September 8

    Germany joined the League of Nations

  • 1926 September 14

    The Locarno treaties are ratified

  • 1926 December 25

    Emperor of japan Taisho dies and his son Hirohito becomes new emperor

  • 1927 April 17

    Chinese civil war starts

  • 1927 May 20

    Saudi Arabia and The UK sign the Treaty of Jeddah

  • 1927 November 12

    Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Union giving undisputed control to Joseph Stalin

  • 1927 December 14

    Iraq gained independence

  • 1928 May 3

    Jinan starts conflict with the republic of china and japan

  • 1928 June 4

    The Chinese warlord Zhang Zuolin is killed by Japanese assassins

  • 1928 August 2

    Italy sighs the Italo-Ethiopian treaty

  • 1928 August 27

    Kellogg Briand pact signed by world powers

  • 1928 October 1

    Stalin’s 5 year plan starts to increase Russian industrialization

  • 1929 February 9

    Litvino’s packed is signed by soviet union

  • 1929 February 11

    Lateran treaty signed by Italy

  • 1929 March 4

    Herbert Hoover becomes president of the USA

  • 1929 March 28

    The Jinan incident ends and japan withdraws troops from china

  • 1929 August 31

    The young plan is set in place and sets Germany's debt at $ 26,350,000,000

  • 1929 October 29

    Wall Street Crash starts the Great Depression

  • 1930 April 22

    London naval treaty is signed by the UK, USA, japan, Italy, and France

  • 1930 June 30

    Rhineland occupation ends with the last of France's troops withdrawing

  • 1931 September 18

    Japanese fake a bombing on a Japanese railroad in China’s half of Manchuria

  • 1931 September 19

    Japan invades Manchuria

  • 1932

    Soviet Famine caused by the 5 Year Plan

  • 1932 January 7

    Stimson doctrine is proclaimed

  • 1932 January 28

    Japan attacks Shanghai china

  • 1932 February 27

    Japan takes Manchuria

  • 1932 March 1

    Japan makes Manchuria its own state and name it Manchukuo

  • 1932 April 10

    Hindenburg is elected as the president of Germany rather than Hitler

  • 1932 November 21

    Hindenburg talks to Hitler about forming a new government

  • 1933 January 1

    Japan attacks the eastern part of the Great Wall

  • 1933 January 30

    Hitler is appointed as the chancellor of Germany by the president

  • 1933 March 27

    Japan leaves the League of Nations

  • 1933 February 27

    Germany’s parliament is set on fire

  • 1933 February 28

    The Reichstag fire decree is put in place and nullifies many German civil rights

  • 1933 March 4

    Franklin Roosevelt is the new president of the USA

  • 1933 March 20

    Dachau is the first concentration camp

  • 1933 March 23

    Germany passes the Enabling act which makes Hitler the dictator of Germany

  • 1933 April 26

    Gestapo secret police is established

  • 1933 May 2

    Hitler outlawed trade with unions

  • 1933 May 31

    Cease Fire signed between China and Japan

  • 1933 June 21

    All other parties besides the Nazi party are banned in Germany

  • 1934 January 26

    Germany and Poland sign the German polish non aggression pact

  • 1934 February 12

    Australian civil war starts

  • 1933 February 16

    Australian civil war ends with the Austro fascists winning

  • 1934 March 20

    Himmler gets full control of the German policy

  • 1934 June 30

    Gestapo kills the Night of the long knives which were Hitler's rivals

  • 1934 July 20

    The SS organization becomes independent from the Nazi and now reports directly to Hitler

  • 1934 August 2

    President Hindenburg dies so Hitler becomes fuhrer and the chancellor

  • 1934 August 8

    Wehrmacht, the Germany’s armed forces start to become loyal to Hitler instead of the German constitution

  • 1934 September 1

    Soviet Union joins the laugh of nations

  • 1934 December 1

    The head of the communist party is murdered by the orders of Stalin

  • 1934 December 5

    Italian and Ethiopian troops clash

  • 1934 December 29

    Japan renounces treaties. The London treaty and the Washington treaty

  • 1935 June 18

    Anglo-German Naval agreement is signed allowing Germany to have a Navy 35% the size of the UK’s

  • 1935 September 15

    The Nuremberg Laws are passed allowing for discrimination of Jews through legal persecution.

  • 1935 October 2

    Italy invades Ethiopia

  • 1936 January

    The king of Britain is killed by his doctor and is said to just have been put to sleep

  • 1936 October

    The Great Purge commences in the Soviet Union. The purge leads to the imprisonment and death of many military officers

  • 1936 March 7

    Germany violated the treaty of Versailles and invades Rhineland

  • 1936 March 25

    The second treaty of London is signed by the USA, uk, France, Japan, and Italy

  • 1936 May 5

    Italian troops march into the Ethiopian capital

  • 1936 October 8

    Göring is made head of the German Four Year Plan

  • 1936 November 14

    Suiyuan Campaign begins

  • 1936 November 15

    German Condor Legion goes into action for the first time in the Spanish Civil War to support the Nationalist side.

  • 1936 November 25

    The Anti-Comintern Pact is signed by Japan and Germany.

  • 1936 December 1

    Hitler makes it makes all males between the ages of 10-18 to join the Hitler Youth.

  • 1936 December 23

    The first Italian expeditionary force lands in Cadiz in support of the Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War.

  • 1937 January 20

    Roosevelt begins his second presidential term

  • 1937 May 28

    Neville Chamberlain appointed Prime Minister of Europe

  • 1937 October 5

    Roosevelt gives the “Quarantine Speech” to move America from a peaceful standpoint to then become a nation that quarantines the war.

  • 1937 December 8

    Puppet state of Mengjiang established by Japan in the Mongolian region of China

  • 1937 December 12

    Japan attacks the US gunboat stationed in the Yangtze River without provocation.

  • 1937 December 13

    Japan massacres countless and “Rapes the land of Nanking” following a victory

  • 1938 August

    The Soviet Union wins against Japan

  • 1938 January 26

    The Allison incident occurs increasing the tensions between the Japan and the USA

  • 1938 March 6

    Japan’s army makes it to the yellow river in China

  • 1938 March 16

    Austria merges with Germany

  • 1938 July 6 - 16

    The USA and the UK stop taking in Jewish refugees

  • 1938 July 29

    Soviet Japanese borders begin conflict

  • 1938 September 27

    USA sends letter to Hitler in hope of peace

  • 1938 September 30

    France, UK, and Italy agree to let Germany Annexed Czechoslovakia

  • 1939 January 27

    Hitler orders plan Z to go into action

  • 1939 March 15

    Germany violated the Munich Agreement by occupying Czech parts of Czechoslovakia

  • 1939 March 31

    UK and France insure the polish independence

  • 1939 April 3

    Hitler sends out plans to invade Poland

  • April 71939

    Italy invades Albania

  • 1939 April 14

    The USA sends another letter to Hitler looking for peace

  • 1939 April 18

    The Soviet Union tries to Allie with France and the UK but fail

  • 1939 April 28

    Hitler renounces the Anglo-German Naval Agreement and the German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact

  • 1939 September 1

    Germany invades Poland
    starting WWII