Interwar Years Timeline

  • Treaty of Versailles signed

    Treaty of Versailles signed
    The treaty of peace between Allies Powers and the German Republic after WWI. The united started refused to ratify the treaty because membership in the League of Nations was tied to it.
  • League of nations established

    League of nations established
    The first international organization for peace of its time. it was unfortunately weakened by non-participation of some of the major powers.
  • Benito Mussolini takes power in Italy

    Benito Mussolini takes power in Italy
    the worlds first fascist dictatorship, Benito Mussolini because president and dictator in Italy. He terrorized the people and the king into allowing him to come to power. This was a huge influence on Hitler.
  • Stock Market Crash in the USA

    Stock Market Crash in the USA
    Trading fraud brought on the collapse of the American economy. This led to a worldwide depression, known as the Great Depression.
  • Japan invaded Manchuria

    Japan invaded Manchuria
    Japanese invasion into China and subsequent creation of the puppet-state of Manchuria. This failed to react to japan's aggressive invasion of a sovereign state
  • Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany

    Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany
    German president Hindenburg's desperate attempt to stabilize Germany's chaotic political climate, and to control Hitler's terrorizing of Germany. Which failed to do so, and made Hitler more powerful.
  • Italy invaded Ethiopia

    Italy invaded Ethiopia
    Mussolini invaded a territory of their own. \this was another example of the failure of the League of Nations as little was done to stop the Italians or to assist the invaded country.
  • Germany reoccupied the Rhineland

    Germany reoccupied the Rhineland
    Hitler gambled and invaded this territory on the hope that it would not precipitate a French military response. No allied response occurred and this former French territory remilitarized and brought back under complete German control
  • Germany's Anschluss with Austria

    Germany's Anschluss with Austria
    The concept of uniting Germanic-speaking peoples in Germany and Austria after WWI. This union was forbidden in 1919, but was accomplished without protest by hitler in 1938
  • Munich Agreement

    Munich Agreement
    Hitler and Mussolini were able to force British prime minster, and French president into giving Germany the Sudetenland portion of Czechoslovakia.
  • Germany occupied Czechoslovakia

    Germany occupied Czechoslovakia
    Following the annexation pf the Sudetenland, Germany marched in and occupied the remainder of the country.
  • Germany invaded Poland

    Germany invaded Poland
    This German invasion ended Allied appeasement of Germany. When Germany invaded the Allied declared was two days later.