Inter-war main events

  • The Treaty of Versailles

    The Treaty of Versailles

    It is a peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied and Germany. Germany had to accept full responsibility for starting WWI. They had to pay a huge reparations. They lost a lot of lands too. They had a lot of military limitations, and needed to be disarmed.
    They were forced to sign these peace terms.
    (https://www.britannica.com/event/Treaty-of-Versailles-1919)
  • Establishment of League of Nations

    Establishment of League of Nations

    It is created as an international organization designed to maintain world peace and economic stability.
    (https://www.sutori.com/story/events-of-the-interwar-period--YJCJ5sHUf6epCVLUbr6MueYM)
  • The first meeting of the League of Nations

    The first meeting of the League of Nations

    The League of Nations held the first meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. More than 100 delegates attended the sessions representing 42 states and over half of the world's population. M. Hymans was elected president of the League of Nations Assemble. US, Mexico, Turkey and Russia are the only nations that were not represented at the first meeting of the assembly.
    (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1920/11/15/First-meeting-of-assembly-of-League-of-Nations-is-open/3271510630366/)
  • Devastated German economy

    Devastated German economy

    Germany defaulted on her scheduled reparations repayment due to reparations, confiscation of land and territory, and had made no provisions for a long, drawn out war.
  • Hyperinflation

    Hyperinflation

    There were too much money in circulation, and became basically worthless. For example, banknotes being used as wallpaper, burned to keep warm and bantering became common.
  • The Dawes Plan

    The Dawes Plan

    It is an arrangement for Germany's payment of reparations. Payments were to begin at 1 billion gold marks in the first year and rise to 2.5 billion marks by 1928. There's an initial loan of 800 million marks to Germany. It was believed that the stringent controls over Germany could be removed and total reparations fixed by 1929, which was done by the Young Plan.
    (https://www.britannica.com/event/Dawes-Plan)
  • Benito Mussolini takes power in Italy

    Benito Mussolini takes power in Italy

    He was an Italian politician, jornalist and leader of the National Fascist Party ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922-1943.
    (https://www.sutori.com/story/events-of-the-interwar-period--YJCJ5sHUf6epCVLUbr6MueYM)
  • The Locarno Treaties

    The Locarno Treaties

    They were seven agreements negotiated at Locarno, Switzerland.The WWI Western European ALlied powers and the new states of Central and Eastern Europe sought to secure the post-war territorial settlement, and return normalizing relations with Germany.
    (https://www.sutori.com/story/events-of-the-interwar-period--YJCJ5sHUf6epCVLUbr6MueYM)
  • The First Television

    The First Television

    It was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21 year-oil inventor. He had begun to conceive of a system that could capture moving images in a form that could be coded onto radio waves and then transformed back into a picture on a screen. The first image he transmitted on it was a simple line.
    (https://stephens.hosting.nyu.edu/History%20of%20Television%20page.html)
  • The first 'talkie' movie

    The first 'talkie' movie

    The Jazz Singer, an American musical film, was the first move with synchronized dialogue.
    (https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Jazz-Singer-film-1927)
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    It is the worst economic downturn.Consumer spending and investment dropped, which caused and unemployment and steep declines in industrial output. Nearly half the country's banks had failed when it reached its lowest point. There was a shortage of food and basic good, as well as famine, mass homelessness and migration.
    (https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/great-depression-history)
  • The Wall Street Crash

    The Wall Street Crash

    16 million shares were sold on the stock market in Wall Street and the economy completely collapsed. Overproduction of food led to falling prices. Sharecroppers who were evicted when the white-owned farms had financial problems.
    (https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zxhpb82/revision/1)
  • Japan invaded Manchuria

    Japan invaded Manchuria

    The Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.
    (https://www.sutori.com/story/events-of-the-interwar-period--YJCJ5sHUf6epCVLUbr6MueYM)
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    Japan invaded Manchuria

    The Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.
    (https://www.sutori.com/story/events-of-the-interwar-period--YJCJ5sHUf6epCVLUbr6MueYM)
  • Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany

    Paul von Hinderburg, the president, named Adolf Hitler, leader of fuhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party(Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. His emergence as chancellor marked a crucial turning point for Germany and the world. He plan was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful, unified one-party state. It is embraced by most of the German population.
    (https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-is-named-chancellor-of-germany)
  • Germany reoccupied the Rhineland

    Germany reoccupied the Rhineland

    Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany.
    (https://www.sutori.com/story/events-of-the-interwar-period--YJCJ5sHUf6epCVLUbr6MueYM)