Conflict and Tension 1918 - 1939 - timeline Flashcards

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11 November 1918

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The armistice is signed, ending the First world war

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January 1919

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Paris Peace Conference

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June 1919

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The Treaty of Versailles is signed

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January 1920

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First meeting of the League of Nations

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August 1920

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The Treaty of Sevres signed with Turkey

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1921

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Poland invades Vilna

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1921

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The Aaland Island crisis

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March 1921

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The League divides Upper Silesia between Germany and Poland

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August 1922

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The Washington Naval agreement

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October 1922

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Benito Mussolini becomes dictator in Italy after his march on Rome

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1922 - 1923

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Economic collapse in Austria and Hungary

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July 1923

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The Treaty of Lausanne overturns the Treaty of Sevres

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August 1923

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The Corfu Crisis

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October 1925

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The Greek-Bulgarian Dispute

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October - December 1925

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The Locarno Treaties

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1926

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Germany joins the League of Nations

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August 1928

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The Kellogg-Briand Pact

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October 1929

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The Wall Street crash leads to global depression

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September 1931

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The Mukden Incident. The Japanese army invades Manchuria

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January 1933

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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

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October 1933

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Hitler leaves the Disarmament Conference

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July 1934

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The Nazi party in Austria assassinate the Austrian Chancellor, Dollfuss

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September 1934

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The USSR joins the League of Nations

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January 1935

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The Saar plebiscite; the Saar re-joins Germany

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March 1935

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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

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June 1935

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The Anglo-German Naval Treaty

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October 1935

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Mussolini invades Abyssinia

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December 1935

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The Hoare Laval Pact is leaked to the press

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July 1936

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Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War

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October 1936

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The Rome-Berlin Axis is agreed

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November 1936

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

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July 1937

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Japan launch a full-scale invasion of China

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March 1938

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Hitler invades Austria to achieve Anschluss

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September 1938

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

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October 1938

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German troops invade and occupy the Sudeten;and

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May 1939

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

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August 1939

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The Nazi-Soviet Pact is signed

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September 1939

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Hitler invades Poland. Britain and France declare war on Germany