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