Important Dates (league 1930-Causes WW2)

Question 1

The Manchurian crisis

Answer 1

Started 1931

When the Japanese invaded China to get resources and become a powerful empire.

Question 2

Hitler coming to power

Answer 2

1933

After being elected by the Germans

Question 3

Disarmament conference

Answer 3

1934

A Conference for the reduction and limitation of armaments

Question 4

Attempted and failed Anschluss with Austria

Answer 4

1934

Failed because Mussolini sent his troops to the border to stop it

Question 8

The Abyssinian Crisis

Answer 8

Started Oct. 1935

When Italy invaded Ethiopia/Abyssinia to prove in was strong and reestablish a ‘roman empire’

Question 9

Stress Front

Answer 9

Written in 1935

A pact that condemned German rearmament with Britain and France. These turned a blind eye to the Abyssinian crisis which encouraged Mussolini even more.

Question 10

The Hoare- Laval pact

Answer 10

Written in 1935
Pact between British and French foreign ministers. It was a plan to give Mussolini 2/3 of Abyssinia in return for calling off the invasion.

Question 11

Anglo-German Naval pact

Answer 11

1935

And agreement between Britain and Germany to regulate Germany‘s navy in comparison to the Britishs’. They were allowed to rearm up to 30% of Britain’s navy.

Question 12

Hitler reintroduces conscription

Answer 12

1936

This was the compulsory military training young men had to do

Question 13

Spanish Civil War

Answer 13

1936 to 1939

A war between Republicans and Nationalists. It was a dress rehearsal for World War II

Question 14

The signing of the anti-Comintern pact

Answer 14

1936

I promise to react to developments and agree to oppose communism and consult if attacked by the USSR

Question 15

Mussolini takes Italy out of the league

Answer 15

1937

Question 16

Marco Polo Bridge incident

Answer 16

1937

And incident at the Marco Polo bridge in which the Japanese tempted the Chinese to start a fight

Question 17

Anschluss

Answer 17

1938

Hitler finally managed to gain control over Austria and make its ‘empire’ greater

Question 18

Berchtesgaden, Bad Godesberg and Munich Conference

Answer 18

1938

Conferences in which the leaders of Germany, Britain, France and Italy joined up to discuss terms through which Hitler would accept the Sudetenland and leave Czechoslovakia alone

Question 19

Sudetenland given to Germany

Answer 19

1938

Under the condition that it makes no more territorial demands (The piece of paper)

Question 20

Invasion of Czechoslovakia and a memel

Answer 20

1939

Hitler believed the Czech president into allowing German troops to enter with the threats that Germany was going to bomb Prague. The 15th of March Hitler entered with his troops into Prague and made Bohemia and Moravia ‘protectorates’.

Question 21

The Polish guarantee

Answer 21

1939

I guarantee the British me the Polish. It stated that if Germany try to invade Poland, Britain would declare war on it.

Question 22

The Nazi Soviet pact

Answer 22

1939

A pact between Germany and Russia which said that when Germany firstly intrude Poland, the USSR wouldn’t do anything, and at the end Poland would be split. This was the Britain and France wouldn’t be able to react.

Question 23

The Pact of steel

Answer 23

1939

A pact that established very friendly relations between Germany and Italy.

Question 24

Start of Second World War

Answer 24

1939

Question 26

Hitler reoccupies the Rhineland

Answer 26

1936

When Hitler, against the Treaty of Versailles, marched his troops into the Rhineland again ‘peacefully’.

Question 27

Rome-Berlin axis

Answer 27

1936

And agreement between Italy and Germany to link and create friendly relationships between the both.

Question 28

When did the battle of Adowa happen

Answer 28

1896

In which the Italians were defeated by the Ethiopians.