1919-1945

By aliwalsh

  • End of WWI

  • Period: to

    WWII

  • League of Nations Formed

  • Signing of Treaty of Versailles

  • Adolf Hilter becomes the leader of National Socialist Party (Nazi)

  • New General Secretary

  • Start of Irish Civil War

  • Forming of Soviet Union

  • Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch

  • Adol Hitler is senenced to 5 years in jail for his participation in the Beer Hall Putsch

  • Mein Kampf published by Hitler

  • Treaty of Berlin

  • Germany enrolled in the League of Nations

  • Inter-marriage of Jews all time high, shows assimilation

  • NSDAP gets 5% of the 1928 election vote, shows growth of anti-semitic feelings

  • Frank B. Kellogg, US Secretary of State, signs Kellogg Briand Pact, with 63 nations (Japan, Germany, and Italy)

  • Stock Market Crash

  • Great Depression begins

  • France withdraws its remaining troops from the Rhineland

  • Germans elect Nazis making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany

  • Japan invades Manchuria

  • Franklin Roosevelt eas elected as the 32nd President of the United States

  • Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul Von Hindenburg

  • The German Reichstag burns

  • First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin, Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power

  • Nazi boycott Jewish owned shops

  • Nazis burn German books

  • Nazis open Dachau concentration camps

  • Nazi party declared Germany’s only political party

  • Germany quits the League of Nations

  • Nazis kill Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss

  • German President Hindenburg dies, Hitler becomes Fuhrer of Germany

  • Hitler violates Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription

  • German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws

  • Fascist Italy invades and conquers Ethiopia

  • In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland

  • Mussolini’s Italian forces take Ethiopia

  • Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation and Rome-Berlin axis alliances are announced. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement

  • Japan invades China, initiating World War II in the Pacific

  • Hitler reveals war plans during Hossbach Conference

  • Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss

  • German military mobilizes

  • Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement which forces the Czechoslovak Republic to cede the Sudetenland, including the key Czechoslovak military defense positions, to Nazi Germany

  • Germany invaded Poland with a new military strategy called Blitzkreig, meaning "lightning war.” France and Britain declare war on Germany.November, assassination attempt on Hitler fails

  • Germans bomb Paris

  • Nazis kill 33,771 Jews at Kiev

  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

  • Germans begin U-Boat offensive along east coast of USA

  • Italy declares war on Germany

  • D-Day begins

  • Hiroshima bombing

  • U.S drops a second atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki

  • Japenese surrender