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WW 1 ended
Germany surrendered on November 11, 1918, and all nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated. -
Treaty of Versailles
On June 28, 1919, Germany and the Allied Nations (including Britain, France, Italy and Russia) signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the war. -
League of Nations established
The League of Nations, abbreviated as LN or LoN, was an intergovernmental organisation founded in 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace -
Benito Mussolini takes power in Italy
As Italy slipped into political chaos, Mussolini declared that only he could restore order and was given the authority in 1922 as prime minister. He gradually dismantled all democratic institutions. By 1925, he had made himself dictator, taking the title "Il Duce". -
Stock Market crash in the USA
During the “Roaring Twenties”, the U.S. economy and the stock market experienced rapid expansion, and stocks hit record highs. While the precise cause of the stock market crash of 1929 is often debated among economists, several widely accepted theories exist. -
Japan invades Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 18 September 1931, 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. -
Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
President Paul von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues. -
Italy invades Abyssinia
Originating in what was called the Walwal incident in the then-ongoing conflict between the Kingdom of Italy and the Empire of Ethiopi -
Germany reoccupies the Rhineland
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany -
Germany’s Anschluss with Austria
the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938. -
Munich Agreement
Settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia. -
Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
It began with the German annexation of Czechoslovakia's border regions known collectively as the Sudetenland, under terms outlined by the Munich Agreement. -
Germany invades Poland
It was an invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning of World War II.
