Years of Crisis

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • Treaty with Sovient Russia

  • Adolf Hitler becomes head of the Nazi Party

  • France and Belgium occupied the Ruhr River

  • Hitler Beer hall Putsch

    Hitler Beer hall Putsch
    rom November 8 to November 9, 1923, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and his followers staged the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, a failed takeover of the government in Bavaria, a state in southern Germany. Since 1921, Hitler had led the Nazi Party
  • Lenin Head of Soveint Russia Dies

  • Dawes Plan

    Dawes Plan
    The Dawes Plan (as proposed by the Dawes Committee, chaired by Charles G. Dawes) was an attempt in 1924 to solve the World War I reparations problem, which had bedeviled international politics following World War I and the Treaty of Versailles.
  • The Locarns pact

    The Locarns pact
    The Locarno Treaties were seven agreements negotiated at Locarno, Switzerland, on 5–16 October 1925 and formally signed in London on 1 December, in which the First World War Western European Allied powers and the new states of Central and Eastern Europe sought to secure the post-war territorial settlement, and return
  • Germany admitted to the League of Nations

    Germany admitted to the League of Nations
    n 1924, the newly appointed foreign minister of Germany, Gustav Stresemann, adopted a new policy toward the League of Nations, which governments in Berlin previously had spurned as an instrument created by the victors of World War I to suppress the defeated Germans.
  • The young plan

    The young plan
    second renegotiation of Germany's World War I reparation payments. A new committee, chaired by the American Owen D. Young, met in Paris on Feb. 11, 1929, to revise the Dawes Plan of 1924. Its report (June 7, 1929), accepted with minor changes, went into effect on Sept. 1, 1930.
  • Hitler becomes cHANCERLOR

    Hitler becomes cHANCERLOR
    The year 1932 had seen Hitler’s meteoric rise to prominence in Germany, spurred largely by the German people’s frustration with dismal economic conditions and the still-festering wounds inflicted by defeat in the Great War and the harsh peace terms of the Versailles treaty.
  • German Invasion of poland