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The Treaty of Versailles was signed, officially ending World War I.
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Warren G. Harding takes office during the “roaring 20’s”
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The unemployment rate reaches 2.5 million (post war high).
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The Russian Civil War finally ends.
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David Lloyd George resigns, in which political turmoil ensues.
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Mussolini is named Italian premier. He gradually erodes Democracy.
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Vladimir Lenin Dies. Stalin succeeds him.
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The U.S.A. decides to help germany pay back their loans gthrough the Dawes Plan.
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Stalin implements the first “Five-Year Plan”.
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Italy becomes a one party state.
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Poincare resigns, causing political turmoil to ensue.
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Black Tuesday stock market crash sends the US into the great depression.
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Stalin enacts the Great Purge from 1933 to 1934.
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Roosevelt’s “New Deals” get the USA going in the right economic direction again.
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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany.
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Roosevelt beings 1st term with US still suffering from the Great Depression.
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Hindeburg passes away, and so, Hitler becomes DerFuhrer.
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Italy Invades Ethipia.
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Italy wins the war in Ethiopia and creates Italian East Africa.
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The Spanish Civil War begins.
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Roosevelt is re-elected for a second term in a landslide victory.
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Neville Chamberlain gets appointed Prime Minister.