Conflict and Tension 1918 - 1939 - timeline

Question 1

11 November 1918

Answer 1

The armistice is signed, ending the First world war

Question 2

January 1919

Answer 2

Paris Peace Conference

Question 3

June 1919

Answer 3

The Treaty of Versailles is signed

Question 4

January 1920

Answer 4

First meeting of the League of Nations

Question 5

August 1920

Answer 5

The Treaty of Sevres signed with Turkey

Question 6

1921

Answer 6

Poland invades Vilna

Question 7

1921

Answer 7

The Aaland Island crisis

Question 8

March 1921

Answer 8

The League divides Upper Silesia between Germany and Poland

Question 9

August 1922

Answer 9

The Washington Naval agreement

Question 10

October 1922

Answer 10

Benito Mussolini becomes dictator in Italy after his march on Rome

Question 11

1922 - 1923

Answer 11

Economic collapse in Austria and Hungary

Question 12

July 1923

Answer 12

The Treaty of Lausanne overturns the Treaty of Sevres

Question 13

August 1923

Answer 13

The Corfu Crisis

Question 14

October 1925

Answer 14

The Greek-Bulgarian Dispute

Question 15

October - December 1925

Answer 15

The Locarno Treaties

Question 16

1926

Answer 16

Germany joins the League of Nations

Question 17

August 1928

Answer 17

The Kellogg-Briand Pact

Question 18

October 1929

Answer 18

The Wall Street crash leads to global depression

Question 19

September 1931

Answer 19

The Mukden Incident. The Japanese army invades Manchuria

Question 20

January 1933

Answer 20

Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

Question 21

October 1933

Answer 21

Hitler leaves the Disarmament Conference

Question 22

July 1934

Answer 22

The Nazi party in Austria assassinate the Austrian Chancellor, Dollfuss

Question 22

September 1934

Answer 22

The USSR joins the League of Nations

Question 23

January 1935

Answer 23

The Saar plebiscite; the Saar re-joins Germany

Question 24

March 1935

Answer 24

Hitler announces that he has built up the Luftwaffe and that conscription will be introduced to build up the German army; remilitarisation of the Rhineland

Question 25

June 1935

Answer 25

The Anglo-German Naval Treaty

Question 26

October 1935

Answer 26

Mussolini invades Abyssinia

Question 27

December 1935

Answer 27

The Hoare Laval Pact is leaked to the press

Question 28

July 1936

Answer 28

Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War

Question 29

October 1936

Answer 29

The Rome-Berlin Axis is agreed

Question 30

November 1936

Answer 30

Italy joins the Anti-Comintern Pact which had originally been agreed between Germany and Japan

Question 31

July 1937

Answer 31

Japan launch a full-scale invasion of China

Question 32

March 1938

Answer 32

Hitler invades Austria to achieve Anschluss

Question 33

September 1938

Answer 33

Chamberlain meets with Hitler over the Sudeten Crisis; the Munich Conference

Question 34

October 1938

Answer 34

German troops invade and occupy the Sudeten;and

Question 35

May 1939

Answer 35

Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel; a military alliance

Question 36

August 1939

Answer 36

The Nazi-Soviet Pact is signed

Question 37

September 1939

Answer 37

Hitler invades Poland. Britain and France declare war on Germany