Timelines - All Units

Question 1

1918 - 1924:

Jan 1918 - Wilsons 14 points
11th Nov 1918- Armistice signed by German Prov Gov to end WW1
Jan 1919 - Big three meet in paris for peace conference/ Spartacist rising in Germany
June 1919 - Treaty of Versailles signed by 🇩🇪
Sept 1919 - Treaty of St germain signed
Nov 1919 - Treaty of Neuilly signed
Jan 1920 - L.O.N begins work

Answer 1

March 1920 - Treaty of Trianon and sevres signed
1921 - Reparations payment fixed at £6,600
Jan 1923 - France and Belgium occupy ruhr as Germany dont pay 2nd reparation instalment/ Treaty of Lausanne signed by turkey after severs was rejected
1923 - Corfu crisis between Greece and Italy
April 1924 - Dawes Plan drawn up to help Germany with payments

Question 2

Foreign policy and outbreak of war

1933 - Germany withdraws from L.O.N
Jan 1934 - Hitler signs 10 year non-aggression pact with poland
July 1934 - Mussolini prevents Anschluss
Jan 1935 - Saar returned to Germany
April 1935 - Stressa Front formed
Jun 1935 - Anglo-German naval agreement
Oct 1935 - Mussolini invades Abyssinia
Mar 1936 - Rhineland Re-militarised

Answer 2

Oct 1936 - Rome - Berlin Axis
1936-1939: Spanish Civil War
May 1937 - Chamberlain PM and appeasement begins
1938 - Anschluss 
Sep 1938 - Munich conference
Mar 1939 - Collapse of CZ.SL
Aug 1939 - Nazi - Soviet pact
Sep 1939 - Attack ok Poland and outbreak of WW1

Question 3

Atomic Arms Race

16th July 1945 - Many successful testing of the American atomic bomb
6th-9th August 1945 - Hiroshima/Nagasaki - Atomic detonation of japan
29th August 1949 - First successful testing of soviet atomic bomb
1st November 1952 - Successful testing of first USA H.Bomb
12th August 1953 - Successful testing on first USSR H-Bomb

Answer 3

Aug 1949 - Soviet atom bomb

-USSR detonated its first atom bomb
- Now a parity of them
- Advent of term - Atomic diplomacy
- Stalin felt more confident/Truman less so
- Cold war intensifies
Nuclear arms race: continual, expanding, competition for best nuclear weapons
Brinkmanship: When each side pushes a dangerous situation to the verge disaster to achieve goals

Question 4

Thaw Timeline

1953 - Korean war ended ceasefire
1955 - Geneva summit - Discussing disarming - USSR/USA/GB/FR
1955 - Austrian state treaty
1956 - Khrushchev - peaceful co-existence speech > Khrushchev visits Britain, No use intervention in Hungarian uprising, suez crisis resolved
1959 - Khrushchev visits USA successfully

Answer 4

Continuing Tension Timeline

1953 - H.Bomb developed by both sides
1955 - Warsaw pact created
1956 - Hungarian uprising brutally crushed
1960 - U2 crisis
1961 - Berlin Wall crisis
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis