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Treaty of Versailles Signed
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Free city of Dazing
It was not approved by Germany nor Poland. -
Treaty of Sevres
Turkey signs this treaty with the allied powers. Greece did not accept the boarders as written in the treaty and did not sign it. this is important because the treaty was decided as invalid in the course the the Turkish war of independence and the parties signed and ratified the superseding Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. -
Benito Mussolini
He was a fascist leader and was appointed prime minister of Italy by king Victor Emmanuel the third after the march on Rome. -
Corfu incident
This is important because Italy bombards and occupies the Greek island of Corfu seeking to pressure Greece to pay reparations for the murder of an Italian general in Greece. -
Dawes plan
This is important because once it was accepted, it ended the allied occupation of the Ruhr and sets a staggered payment plan for Germany's payment of war reparations. -
Leon Trotsky
He is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union. -
litvinovs pact
It is signed in Moscow by the Soviet Union, Poland, Estonia, Romania and Latvia. The pact is important because it outlaws aggressive warfare along the lines of the Kellog- Briand Pact. -
Young plan
This sets the total World War 1 reparations owned by Germany as US$26,350,000,000 to be paid over a period of 58 and a half years, is finalized. This is important because it replaces the earlier Dawes plan. -
Abyssinia Crisis
Begins with the Walwal incident, an armed clash between Italian and Ethiopian troops on the border of Ethiopia. -
Neutrality Act of 1935
this is passed in the US imposing a general embargo on trading in arms and war materials with all parties in a war. This is important because it also declared that american citizens traveling on ships of warring nations traveled at their own risk. -
Polish corridor
German ultimatum to Poland concerning the Polish Corridor and the Free City of Danzig. -
German invasion of Poland
This is the start of World War 2
