Interwar Period By bplanisi Period: 1918 to 1924 FIRST STAGE Nov 11, 1918 World War I ends. Jun 28, 1919 Treaty of Versailles: war reparations imposed on Germany. Jan 10, 1920 The League of Nations comes into force. Period: 1922 to 1933 SECOND STAGE Oct 31, 1922 March on Rome: Mussolini rises to power in Italy. Dec 30, 1922 The Soviet Union is established (USSR). Jan 21, 1924 Lenin dies and Stalin assumes deadership of the USSR Sep 8, 1926 Germany joins the League of Nations. Oct 1, 1928 Stalin's First Five-Year Plan in the USSR: industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. Oct 29, 1929 Wall Street Crash of 1929: the Great Depression begins. Period: 1931 to 1939 THIRD STAGE Sep 18, 1931 Japan invades Manchuria. Jan 30, 1933 Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. Mar 9, 1933 Rossevelt rolls out the New Deal in response to the U.S. economic crisis. Oct 14, 1933 Germany withdraws from the League of Nations. Sep 15, 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws in Germany. Jul 17, 1936 The Spanish Civil War begins. Dec 13, 1937 Italy withdraws from the League of Nations. Mar 12, 1938 Anschluss: Germany annexes Austria. Mar 15, 1939 Germany occupies Czechoslovakia. Mar 28, 1939 The Spanish Civil War ends: Franco's dictatorship begins. Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland: World War II begins.
