The Interwar Years Timeline

  • Hitler was Born

  • Kuomintang Party formed in China

  • Weimar Republic began to govern Germany

  • May 4th Movement in China

  • Treaty of Versailles Signed

  • Formation of the Nazi Party (NSGWP)

  • Washington Naval Conference Convened

  • Mussolini marches on Rome

  • Lenin renames Russia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

  • Hitler attempts to seize power in Munich (Beer Hall Putsche)

  • "Mein Kampf" written

  • Dawes Plan in Effect

  • Locarno Pact Signed

  • "Lucky Lindy" flies across the Atlantic

  • Stalin takes power in the USSR

  • Japan signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact

  • Young Plan in effect

  • Great Depression Begins

  • Japan Invasion of Manchuria Began

  • Japanese Invasion of China Begins

  • 40% unemployment in Germany

  • Franklin Roosevelt first elected

  • Hitler became chancellor of Germany

  • Reichstag Fire took place

  • New Deal put into effect by FDR

  • Enabling Act passed in Germany

  • Night of the Long Knives

  • "Long March" in China

  • Social Security Act Passed in the US

  • Nuremburg Laws passed in Germany

  • Mussolini invades Ethiopia

  • Germany Occupied the Rhineland

  • Popular Front Government is elected in France

  • Spanish Civil War Began

  • Anschluss between Germany and Austria

  • Munich Agreement

  • Kristallnacht takes place in Germany

  • German-Russian nonaggression pact signed