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End of WW1
On November 11, 1918, what had so far been the most devastating war in human history came to an end. -
Ttreaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles is one of the most controversial armistice treaties in history. The treaty’s so-called “war guilt” clause forced Germany and other Central Powers to take all the blame for World War I. This meant a loss of territories, reduction in military forces, and reparation payments to Allied powers. -
March on Rome
It was an organized mass demonstration and a coup d'état in October 1922 which resulted in Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party ascending to power in the Kingdom of Italy. -
Fascist Italy
Fascism is the name given to the period in the history of Italy during which this European kingdom was ruled by a regime based on the ideology of fascism and headed by the dictator Benito Mussolini, founder of fascism and of the National Fascist Party. -
Crack of NY Stock Market
Panic took hold of investors on the New York Stock Exchange, who dumped more than 16 million shares, causing financial chaos and a plunge in the value of the shares of the country's most important companies. -
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan began on 19 September 1931, immediately after the Mukden Incident. The Japanese occupation of Manchuria lasted until the end of World War II and would lead to the founding of the puppet state of Manchukuo. -
Hitler chancellor
Hitler was sworn in as the chancellor of Germany on the 30 January 1933. The Nazis were now in power. -
The Italian invasion of Ethiopia
It was a seven-month armed conflict, fought between October 1935 and May 1936. It is seen as a sign of the expansionist policies that characterised the Axis Powers and the inefficiency of the League of Nations before the outbreak of World War II. -
Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
It was a diplomatic crisis provoked by the remilitarisation of this German region by decision of Adolf Hitler on 7 March 1936, in violation of one of the points established in the Treaty of Versailles: the prohibition of Germany stationing military forces of any kind in this region bordering France and Belgium without the prior permission of those states. -
Beginning of spanish civil war
It was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic, and consisted of various socialist, communist, separatist, anarchist, and republican parties, some of which had opposed the government in the pre-war period. -
Anschluss
The annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938 is known in modern historiography. On the 12th of that month, Wehrmacht troops invaded the Federal State of Austria without meeting resistance, and it became a province of the German Reich, called the Ostmark. -
The Sudeten Crisis
This is the name given to the events that took place from 1 to 10 October 1938 concerning ethnic Germans living in Bohemia, Moravia and eastern Silesia, where they made up the majority of the population. The roots of the conflict began after World War I and the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, when these lands were allocated to Czechoslovakia by decision of the victorious countries, completely independent of the ethnic history of the place. -
WW2 starts
On September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler announced the invasion of Poland after Polish regular soldiers had allegedly attacked German territory. In reality, the whole thing was a Nazi set-up to justify the invasion of the neighboring country. -
End of WW2
In 1945, World War II ended, leaving behind a socially and economically devastated continent.