1918-1939

By chrkie

  • the storming of the Winter Palace in Petrograd gives the signal for the Russian Revolution.

  • President Woodrow Wilson’s fourteen points

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles

    Signed by "The Big Three", Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George.

  • In the 1919 elections Italy was the Socialist Party that gained the most votes.

  • Germany failed to make a reparation payment

  • Mussolini and his party marched on Rome hoping to establish a new government in Italy.

  • A new currency called the Rentenmark was introduced

  • Paul von Hindenburg was elected President of Germany

    Paul von Hindenburg was elected President of Germany

  • Hitler declared leader of the Nazi Party

    Hitler declared leader of the Nazi Party

  • Soviet Union

    Economic growth makes it more possible to meet social priorities such as housing, education, health etc.

  • the first five-year plan initiates a period of fast-track industrialisation.

  • By 1929 Italy had become a one party state. Thus, Italian democracy was no more.

  • Italian army doubled in size

  • Unemployment in Germany reached 4.9 million

  • continued its expansionist policy by occupying Manchuria (Japan)

  • Hitler was rejected in the position of Vice-Chancellor

  • Von Schleicher appointed Chancellor

    Von Schleicher appointed Chancellor

  • Hitler stood for President, but Hindenburg, at 85 years of age, was re-elected

  • Establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

  • Nazi Party became the only legal party in Germany

  • Burning of "un-German" books

  • Jewish children were restricted entry into German schools

    Jewish children were restricted entry into German schools

  • Japan resigned from the League of Nations

  • The Wansee Conference in Berlin was held on the final solution

    The Wansee Conference in Berlin was held on the final solution

  • The German Army swore an oath of loyalty to Hitler

  • The assassination of a communist official, Sergei Kirov, unleashes a bloody repression.

  • The Moscow trials are accompanied by thousands of arrests and deportations.

  • Italy invaded Abyssinia

  • Italy invaded Abyssinia

  • To expand the Italian Empire Mussolini invaded Abyssinia

  • Italy invaded Abyssinia

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    Japan embarked on a full-scale invasion of northern China, resulting in the Sino-Japanese War

  • Olympic Games were held in Berlin

  • Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact with Nazi Germany

  • Four-Year Plan for economic self-sufficiency and rearmament introduced

    Four-Year Plan for economic self-sufficiency and rearmament introduced

  • the alliance with Germany was extended with the Pact of Steel

  • Tricolor principle of the color television by Hovannes Adamian

  • The soviet-German nonaggression past was signed September, Germany invaded poland.

  • non-aggression pact with Germany.

  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland

    Germany signed a nonaggression pact with Poland, and on September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland. Poland was defeated within weaks. Hitler wanted more land and he wanted to grow his empire bigger than the world had ever seen.

  • Pinscreen animation invented by Alexandre Alexeieff

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    The Great Patriotic War

    which was to result in 20 million dead in the Soviet Union - would finally carry the Soviet Army through to Berlin.

  • death of Stalin.

  • The regime’s inability to embark on global reforms led to a slowing of economic growth and exacerbated the technological lag in relation to the West.

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    the fall of the Berlin Wall releases a wave which will eventually sweep away all the regimes of Eastern Europe.

  • The presidents of Russia, the Ukraine and Byelorussia announce, in Minsk, that the Soviet Union "no longer exists"