Interwar period By mariaestarellas Period: 1918 to 1924 FIRST STAGE Nov 11, 1918 World War I ends Jun 28, 1919 Treaty of Versalles: war reparations imposed on Germany Jan 10, 1920 The League of Nations comes into force Oct 28, 1922 March on Rome: Mussolini rises to power in Italy Dec 30, 1922 The Soviet Union is established (USSR) Period: 1924 to 1933 SECOND STAGE Jun 21, 1924 Lenin dies and Stalin assumes leadership 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: thw Great Depression begins Sep 18, 1931 Japan invades Manchuria Period: 1933 to 1939 THIRD STAGE Mar 9, 1933 Roosevelt rolls out the New Deal in respone to the U.S economic crisis Jun 30, 1933 Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany 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 Mar 12, 1938 Anschluss: Germany annexes Austria Mar 15, 1939 Germany occupies Czechoslovakia Apr 1, 1939 The Spanish Civil War ends: Franco's dictatorship begins Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland: World War ll begins Dec 13, 1942 Italy withdraws from the League of Nations