Conflict and Tension 1918 - 1939 - timeline Flashcards
11 November 1918
The armistice is signed, ending the First world war
January 1919
Paris Peace Conference
June 1919
The Treaty of Versailles is signed
January 1920
First meeting of the League of Nations
August 1920
The Treaty of Sevres signed with Turkey
1921
Poland invades Vilna
1921
The Aaland Island crisis
March 1921
The League divides Upper Silesia between Germany and Poland
August 1922
The Washington Naval agreement
October 1922
Benito Mussolini becomes dictator in Italy after his march on Rome
1922 - 1923
Economic collapse in Austria and Hungary
July 1923
The Treaty of Lausanne overturns the Treaty of Sevres
August 1923
The Corfu Crisis
October 1925
The Greek-Bulgarian Dispute
October - December 1925
The Locarno Treaties
1926
Germany joins the League of Nations
August 1928
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
October 1929
The Wall Street crash leads to global depression
September 1931
The Mukden Incident. The Japanese army invades Manchuria
January 1933
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
October 1933
Hitler leaves the Disarmament Conference
July 1934
The Nazi party in Austria assassinate the Austrian Chancellor, Dollfuss
September 1934
The USSR joins the League of Nations
January 1935
The Saar plebiscite; the Saar re-joins Germany
March 1935
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
June 1935
The Anglo-German Naval Treaty
October 1935
Mussolini invades Abyssinia
December 1935
The Hoare Laval Pact is leaked to the press
July 1936
Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War
October 1936
The Rome-Berlin Axis is agreed
November 1936
Italy joins the Anti-Comintern Pact which had originally been agreed between Germany and Japan
July 1937
Japan launch a full-scale invasion of China
March 1938
Hitler invades Austria to achieve Anschluss
September 1938
Chamberlain meets with Hitler over the Sudeten Crisis; the Munich Conference
October 1938
German troops invade and occupy the Sudeten;and
May 1939
Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel; a military alliance
August 1939
The Nazi-Soviet Pact is signed
September 1939
Hitler invades Poland. Britain and France declare war on Germany
