League of nations 1919

League of Nations

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    League of Nations time line

  • Paris Peace Conference

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

    set up to sort out disputes between nations fairly
  • Crisis in Germany as France invades the Ruhr and inflation makes money worthless

  • The Locarno Treaties

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

  • The Kellogg

    Briand Pact: most nations agree not to go to war to settle international disputes
  • The Wall Street Crash

    followed by worldwide economic depression
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    The Manchurian crisis

    Japan begins building a pacific empire
  • Japan leaves the League

  • Hitler becomes leader of Germany

  • Germany leaves the League

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    German Realms

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    The Abyssinian crisis

    Italy invades Abyssinia
  • German troops enter the Rhineland

  • Italy leaves the League

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

  • Hitler invades Poland