An Armistice Is Signed, Which Ends the Fighting of WWI
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November 11, 1918
An armistice is signed, which ends the fighting of WWI
November 1918
The Weimar Republic is established
March 1919
Mussolini founded the Fascist Party in Italy
June 1919
The Treaty of Versailles is signed, officially ending WWI
September 1919
Hitler joins the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis)
The 1920s
Society reflects the anxiety of the postwar world-Freud, Einstein, and Nietzsche all publish famous works.
Oct 1922
Mussolini’s Black Shirts march on Rome. They demand that King Victor Emmanuel III put Mussolini in charge- and he does.
1923
Hitler fails to seize power in what is called the Beer Hall Putsch. While in jail, he writes Mein Kampf
1924
The Dawes Plan, which sought to help Germany’s economy stabilize, is put in to effect
Oct 1929
The Stock Market crashes, marking the official beginning of the Great Depression
1931
Japan invades Manchuria
1932
FDR is elected, and he begins the New Deal-his plan to get the US out of the Great Depression
1933
The US unemployment rate hits 25%
1933 Hitler is given the position of chancellor in the German government
1935
Czechoslovakia is the only democracy left in Eastern Europe
1935
The US passes three neutrality acts
Oct 1935
Italy invades Ethiopia
March 1936
Germany invades the Rhineland
July 1936-1939
The Spanish Civil War ends with General Francisco Franco taking power
Oct 1936
The Axis Powers are established
1937
Japan invades China, marking the beginning of WWII in Asia
March 1938
Germany annexes Austria
September 1938
The Munich Conference-Germany is given the Sudetenland; 6 months later, Germany seizes the rest of Czechoslovakia
November 1938
Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, occurs. This marks the beginning of an increase of persecution of Jews in Germany.
August 1939
The USSR and Germany sign a nonaggression pact
September 1939
Germany invades Poland, beginning WWII in Europe