Timeline Flashcards
1
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1919
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- paris peace conference
- treaty of versailles is signed, officially ending WW1
- Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye signed with Austria
- Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine signed with Bulgaria
2
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1920
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- ToV comes into effect
- LoN holds first meeting in Geneva
- Treaty of Trianon signed with Hungary
- Treaty of Sevres signed with Ottoman Empire
3
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1921
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Washington Conference is held where major world powers convene to discuss disarmament
4
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1922
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Benito Mussolini takes power in Italy
5
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1923
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- Hitler attempts Beer Hall Putsch in Munich and is imprisoned
- Treaty of Lausanne is signed with the new Republic of Turkey
6
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1925
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Locarno Pacts are signed, assuring Germany’s neighbours of their security
7
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1931
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Japan invades Manchuria and begins the Fifteen Year War
8
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1933
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- Hitler is appointed Chancellor of the Weimar Republic
- Germany and Japan leave the LoN
9
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1934
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Hitler becomes the dictator (Fuhrer) of Nazi Germany
10
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1935
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- Germany introduces conscription
- Italy, Britain and France form the anti-German Stresa Front
- Italy invades Abyssinia
11
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1936
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- German troops occupy the Rhineland
- Spanish civil war begins between Republicans and the Nationalists
- Germany and Italy sign the Rome-Berlin Axis
- Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact
- Japan Withdraws from the London Naval Conference
12
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1937
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- Italy leaves the League of Nations
- Italy joins the Anti-Comintern Pact with Germany and Japan
- Japan invades China
- Munich Conference is held and Germany is allowed to take control of the Sudetenland
13
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1938
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Germany invades and annexes Austria (Anschluss)
14
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1939
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- Italy annexes Albania
- Italy and Germany sign the Pact of Steel
- Germany invades the rest of Czechoslovakia
- Germany and Soviet Union sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (Soviet-Nazi Non-Aggression Pact)
- Germany invades Poland, triggering War
- Britain and France declare war on Germany
- Soviet Union invades Eastern Poland
15
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1940
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- italy declares war on Britain and France
- Germany, Italy and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact, forming the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
