League of nations

  • The Paris Peace Conferencce

    Allied leaders meet and draw up Treaty of Versailles and other peace treaties
  • The League of Nations set up to sort out disputes betweem nations fairly

  • Washington Conference

    USA, Britain, France and Japan agreed to limit the size of their navies.
  • Rapallo Treaty

    The USSR and Germany re-established diplomatic relations
  • Crisis in Germany as France invaes the Ruhr and inflation makes money worthless

  • the Dawes Plan

    To avert a terrible econimic crisis in Germany, the USA lent money to Germany to help it pay its reperations
  • Locarno Treaties

    Germany accepted its western borders as set out in the Treaty of Versailles
  • The Locarno Treaties

    Germany appears to accept the Treaty of Versailles
  • Germany joils the League of Nations

  • Kellogg-Briand pact

    65 nations agreed not to use force to settle disputes. This is also known as the Pact of Paris
  • The Kellogg-Briand Pact:

    Most nations agree not to go tp war o settle international disputes
  • Young Plan

    It reduced Germany's reparations payment.
  • The Wall Street Crash

    Followed by worldwide econimic depression
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    The Manchurian crisis

    Japan begins builing a pacific Empire
  • Japan leaves the league

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    Germany rearms

  • Hitler becomes leader of Germany

  • Germany leaves the League

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    The Abyssinian crisis

    Italy invades Abyssinia
  • German troops enter Rhineland

  • Italy leaves the League

  • Chamerlain's policy of appeasement culminates in the Munich agreement

  • Hitler invaed Poland