key dates conflict & tension 1918 - 1939 Flashcards

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1918 - November

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11th November - Armistice

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1919 - January

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Paris Peace Conference

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1919 - June

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Treaty of Versailles Signed

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4
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1920 - January

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First meeting of the League Of Nations

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5
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1920 - August

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Treaty of Sevres signed with Turkey

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1921 - March

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The LoN divided Upper Silesia between Germany & Poland

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1921 - April

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Poland invades Vilna

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1921

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The Aaland Island Crisis

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1922 - August

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Washington Arms (Naval) Agreement signed by Britain France Italy Belgium the Netherlands China Japan and Portugal to prevent an arms race similar to WW1

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10
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1922 - October

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Benito Mussolini becomes dictator in Italy after his march on Rome

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11
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1923

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Economic collapse in Austria and Hungary

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12
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1923 - July

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The Treaty of Lausanne overturns the Treaty of Sevres

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13
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1923 - August

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The Corfu Crisis

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14
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1924 - January

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Vladimir Lenin died and Joseph Stalin becomes the leader of the USSR

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15
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1925 - October

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The Greek Bulgarian Dispute

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16
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1925 - October to December

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The Locarno Treaties signed

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17
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1926

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Germany joins the League of Nations

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18
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1928 - August

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The Kellog-Briand Pact

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19
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1929 - October

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The Wall Street Crash leads to global depression

20
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1931 - September

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The Mukden Incident - the Japanese army invade Manchuria

21
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1933 - January

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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

22
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1933 - March

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Japan leaves the LoN

23
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1933 - October

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Hitler leaves the disarmament conference

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1934 - July

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The Nazi Party in Austria assassinate the Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss; Hitler attempts an occupation but is blocked by Mussolini

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1934 - September

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The USSR joins the League Of Nations

26
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1934 - December

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Wal Wal incident between Italian and Abyssinian troops

27
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1935 - January (coalfields)

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The Saar Plebiscite; the Saar votes to rejoin Germany having been separated by the ToV to build up the German army

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1935 - March

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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

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1935 - April

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Stress Front agreed between Britain France and Italy against Hitler

30
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1935 - June

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The Anglo-German Naval Agreement

31
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1935 - October

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Mussolini invades Abyssinia

32
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1935 - December

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The Hoare Laval Pact is leaked to the press

33
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1936 - March

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Remilitarisation of the Rhineland

34
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1936 - July

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Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Franco’s fascist forces backed by German troops

35
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1936 - October

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Italy withdraws from the Stress Front and the Rome-Berlin Axis is signed

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1936 - November

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

37
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1937 - July

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Japan launch a full-scale invasion of China

38
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1938 - March

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Hitler invades Austria to achieve Anschluss

39
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1938 - September

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Chamberlain meets with Hitler over the Sudeten Crisis in Munich; the Munich Agreement is signed, guaranteeing Hitler the Sudetenland on the promise of no further occupations

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1938 - October

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German troops invade and occupy the Sudetenland

41
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1939 - March

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Hitler invades the rest of Czechoslovakia, breaking the Munich Agreement

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1939 - May

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Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel; a military alliance guaranteeing support in war

43
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1939 - August

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The Nazi-Soviet Pact is signed, it is agreed that Germany and the USSR will divide Poland between them

44
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1939 - 1st September

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Hitler invades Poland

45
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1939 - 3rd September

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Britain and France declare war on Germany