Conflicts & Tensions Dates Flashcards
Armistice signed
1918 (11th Nov)
Paris Peace conference
1919 (Jan)
ToV signed
1919 (28th June)
First LoN meeting
1920 (Jan)
Aaland islands (btwn Sweden + Finland = success) Vilna (invaded by Poland) Upper Silesia (divided btwn Poland & Germany)
1921
Washington Arms Conference (Br+Fr+Jp+USA)
1922 (Aug)
Mussolini becomes dictator
1922 (Oct)
Economic collapse in Hungary
1922-23
The Corfu Crisis (Italian Genrl Tellini killed there so Mussolini invaded and when LoN appealed to Mussolini influenced them so the compensation was payed directly to him)
1923 (Aug)
Locarno treaty (accept borders set out by ToV)
1925 (Oct-Dec)
Germany joins LoN
1926
Kellogg-Briand Pact (outlawed war as a way to achieve foreign policy - signed by 65 countries)
1928 (Aug)
Wall Street Crash
1929 (Oct)
Mukden Incidence, Japanese invade Manchuria
1931
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor
1933 (Jan)
Hitler leaves the disarmament conference
1933 (Oct)
Austrian Nazis assassinate their chancellor - Dollfuss
1934 (July)
USSR join LoN
1934 (Sep)
Saar plebiscite (it re-joins Germany)
1935 (Jan)
Conscription
Rhineland remilitarised
1935 (March)
Anglo-German Naval treaty (35% of Britain’s)
1935 (June)
Mussolini invades Abyssinia
1935 (Oct)
Hoare Laval Pact leaked to press (Fr + BR agree to give Germany 2/3’s of Abyssinia)
1935 (Dec)
Spanish civil war
1936 (July)
Rome-Berlin Axis
1936 (Oct)
Anti-Comintern pact (Gr+It+Jpn)
1936 (Nov)
Japan launches full scale invasion of China
1937
Anschluss
1938 (March)
Munich Conference - Chamberlin meets Hitler over Sudetenland crisis
1938 (Sep)
Hitler invades Sudetenland
1938 (Oct)
Pact of Steel (Grm + It)
1939 (May)
Nazi-Soviet Pact
1938 (Aug)
WW2
1939 (Sep)