Key Dates Flashcards
Black Death arrived in England
1348
11 November 1918
The armistice is signed, ending the First World War
June 1919
The treaty of Versailles is signed
1921
Poland invades Vilna: the Aaland islands crisis
August 1923
The corfu crisis
October 19255
The Greek-Bulgarian dispute
October- December 1925
The Locarno treaty
October 1929
The Wall Street crash leads to global depression
September 1931
The Mukden incident; the Japanese army invades Manchuria
January 1933
Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
October 1933
Hitler leaves the disarmament conference
July 1934
The Nazi party in Austria assassinates the Austrian chancellor, Dolfuss
January 1935
The Saar plebiscite
March 1935
Hitler announces that he has built up the Luftwaffe and the conscription will be introduced to build up the German army
June 1935
The Anglo-German Naval treaty
October 1935
Mussolini invades Abyssinia
March 1936
Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
October 1936
The Rome-Berlin axis is agreed
November 1936
The anti- Comintern pact between Germany and Japan is agreed
March 1938
Hitler invades Austria to achieve Anschluss
September 1938
Chamberlain meets Hitler to discuss to Sudeten crisis
October 1938
German troops invade and occupy the Sudetenland
August 1939
The Nazi soviet pact is signed
September 1939
Hitler invades Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
