key dates conflict & tension 1918 - 1939

Question 1

1918 - November

Answer 1

11th November - Armistice

Question 2

1919 - January

Answer 2

Paris Peace Conference

Question 3

1919 - June

Answer 3

Treaty of Versailles Signed

Question 4

1920 - January

Answer 4

First meeting of the League Of Nations

Question 5

1920 - August

Answer 5

Treaty of Sevres signed with Turkey

Question 6

1921 - March

Answer 6

The LoN divided Upper Silesia between Germany & Poland

Question 7

1921 - April

Answer 7

Poland invades Vilna

Question 8

1921

Answer 8

The Aaland Island Crisis

Question 9

1922 - August

Answer 9

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

Question 10

1922 - October

Answer 10

Benito Mussolini becomes dictator in Italy after his march on Rome

Question 11

1923

Answer 11

Economic collapse in Austria and Hungary

Question 12

1923 - July

Answer 12

The Treaty of Lausanne overturns the Treaty of Sevres

Question 13

1923 - August

Answer 13

The Corfu Crisis

Question 14

1924 - January

Answer 14

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

Question 15

1925 - October

Answer 15

The Greek Bulgarian Dispute

Question 16

1925 - October to December

Answer 16

The Locarno Treaties signed

Question 17

1926

Answer 17

Germany joins the League of Nations

Question 18

1928 - August

Answer 18

The Kellog-Briand Pact

Question 19

1929 - October

Answer 19

The Wall Street Crash leads to global depression

Question 20

1931 - September

Answer 20

The Mukden Incident - the Japanese army invade Manchuria

Question 21

1933 - January

Answer 21

Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

Question 22

1933 - March

Answer 22

Japan leaves the LoN

Question 23

1933 - October

Answer 23

Hitler leaves the disarmament conference

Question 24

1934 - July

Answer 24

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

Question 25

1934 - September

Answer 25

The USSR joins the League Of Nations

Question 26

1934 - December

Answer 26

Wal Wal incident between Italian and Abyssinian troops

Question 27

1935 - January (coalfields)

Answer 27

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

Question 28

1935 - March

Answer 28

Hitler announces that he has built up the Luftwaffe and that conscription will be introduced to build up the German army

Question 29

1935 - April

Answer 29

Stress Front agreed between Britain France and Italy against Hitler

Question 30

1935 - June

Answer 30

The Anglo-German Naval Agreement

Question 31

1935 - October

Answer 31

Mussolini invades Abyssinia

Question 32

1935 - December

Answer 32

The Hoare Laval Pact is leaked to the press

Question 33

1936 - March

Answer 33

Remilitarisation of the Rhineland

Question 34

1936 - July

Answer 34

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

Question 35

1936 - October

Answer 35

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

Question 36

1936 - November

Answer 36

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

Question 37

1937 - July

Answer 37

Japan launch a full-scale invasion of China

Question 38

1938 - March

Answer 38

Hitler invades Austria to achieve Anschluss

Question 39

1938 - September

Answer 39

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

Question 40

1938 - October

Answer 40

German troops invade and occupy the Sudetenland

Question 41

1939 - March

Answer 41

Hitler invades the rest of Czechoslovakia, breaking the Munich Agreement

Question 42

1939 - May

Answer 42

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

Question 43

1939 - August

Answer 43

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

Question 44

1939 - 1st September

Answer 44

Hitler invades Poland

Question 45

1939 - 3rd September

Answer 45

Britain and France declare war on Germany