Interwar Years

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  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles

    The peace Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919 by Germany and the Allied powers at the palace of Versailles. It ended WWI officially and made Germany pay for repairs and many other things.
  • Warren Hordag

    Warren Hordag

    Warren takes office during economic boom in the United States
  • unemployment reaches 2.5 million

    unemployment reaches 2.5 million

    unemployment rises between the end of WWI in 1918 and the start of WWII in 1939. it was a dominant issue in British society during the interwar years.
  • Russian civil war ends

    Russian civil war ends

    Bolsheviks triumphed
  • David Lloyd George Resigns

    David Lloyd George Resigns

    David George wasa british politician present at the treaty of versailles.

  • Mussolini named Italian power. Gradually erodes democracy

    Founded the national Facist party. Facism places the good of the nation above everything, including individual needs and rights.
  • Lenin dies, Stalin suceeds him

    Lenin dies, Stalin suceeds him

    Stalin stregthened communism in Soviet Union.
  • Dawes plan

    Dawes plan

    The Dawes plan was formulated to take germany out of hyperinflation and return thier economy to some form of stability.
  • Stalin brings up first five year plan

    Stalin brings up first five year plan

    The plan turns the USSR into a an industrial and powerful country.
  • Italy is a one party state

    Italy is a one party state

    Mussolini's goverment wanted to control all aspects of life called totalitarianism.
  • Black tuesday

    Black tuesday

    The worst day in the stock market. On that day, investors sold off 16 million shares.
  • Stalin starts whats known as the Greatn Purges

    Stalin starts whats known as the Greatn Purges

    Stalin attacked opponents of his rule. He executed thousands of leaders, military officers and citizens.
  • Hitler appointed chancellor

    Hitler appointed chancellor

    President Paul Von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany.
  • Franklin D. Rosevelt becomes president during Great depression

    Franklin D. Rosevelt becomes president during Great depression

    Pushed foward a program known as the New deal. He believed goverment spending could help economy recovery.
  • Franklin D. Rosevelt New Deals Program

    Franklin D. Rosevelt New Deals Program

    Established public works programs that gave jobs to the unemployed and provided goverment money for welfare and other relief programs. created new rules to reform and protect the stock market and banking system.
  • Hindenberg dies: Hitler becomes "Der Fuhrer"

    Hindenberg dies: Hitler becomes "Der Fuhrer"

    After Hindenburg dies due to health reasons hitler comes to power.
  • Italy invades Ethiopia

    Italy invades Ethiopia

    Ethiopia was an easy target. It was located between two Italian Colonies and its military was ill equipped.
  • Italy wins war in Ethiopia and creates an Italian east coast

    Italy wins war in Ethiopia and creates an Italian east coast

    The League of Nations took no real action to help Ethiopia.

  • Spanish Civil War begins

    Italy and Germany wanted an alliance with Spain. Political problems cause this war.
  • Neville Chamberlain appointed Prime Minister

    Neville Chamberlain appointed Prime Minister

    He was a British conservative politician who served as prime minister from May 1937 to May1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy.