Important Dates (league 1930-Causes WW2) Flashcards
The Manchurian crisis
Started 1931
When the Japanese invaded China to get resources and become a powerful empire.
Hitler coming to power
1933
After being elected by the Germans
Disarmament conference
1934
A Conference for the reduction and limitation of armaments
Attempted and failed Anschluss with Austria
1934
Failed because Mussolini sent his troops to the border to stop it
The Abyssinian Crisis
Started Oct. 1935
When Italy invaded Ethiopia/Abyssinia to prove in was strong and reestablish a ‘roman empire’
Stress Front
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.
The Hoare- Laval pact
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.
Anglo-German Naval pact
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.
Hitler reintroduces conscription
1936
This was the compulsory military training young men had to do
Spanish Civil War
1936 to 1939
A war between Republicans and Nationalists. It was a dress rehearsal for World War II
The signing of the anti-Comintern pact
1936
I promise to react to developments and agree to oppose communism and consult if attacked by the USSR
Mussolini takes Italy out of the league
1937
Marco Polo Bridge incident
1937
And incident at the Marco Polo bridge in which the Japanese tempted the Chinese to start a fight
Anschluss
1938
Hitler finally managed to gain control over Austria and make its ‘empire’ greater
Berchtesgaden, Bad Godesberg and Munich Conference
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
Sudetenland given to Germany
1938
Under the condition that it makes no more territorial demands (The piece of paper)
Invasion of Czechoslovakia and a memel
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’.
The Polish guarantee
1939
I guarantee the British me the Polish. It stated that if Germany try to invade Poland, Britain would declare war on it.
The Nazi Soviet pact
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.
The Pact of steel
1939
A pact that established very friendly relations between Germany and Italy.
Start of Second World War
1939
Hitler reoccupies the Rhineland
1936
When Hitler, against the Treaty of Versailles, marched his troops into the Rhineland again ‘peacefully’.
Rome-Berlin axis
1936
And agreement between Italy and Germany to link and create friendly relationships between the both.
When did the battle of Adowa happen
1896
In which the Italians were defeated by the Ethiopians.
