MWH, Unit VI: Interwar Years & WWII

The Russian Revolution of 1917

Period: Mar 8, 1917 to Jun 16, 1923

The March (Provisional Government) and November (Bolsheviks) Revolutions

Treaty of Saint-Germain signed

Oct 10, 1917

Russian Civil War

Period: Nov 7, 1917 to Jun 16, 1923

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

Period: 1918 to 1920

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed

Mar 3, 1918

Treaty of Sevres signed

Aug 10, 1918

Weimar Republic

Period: Nov 8, 1918 to 1933

WWI Armistice signed

Nov 11, 1918

Signed by Germany and Entente

Treaty of Versailles - Rejection of the Racial Equality Proposal

Apr 11, 1919

Treaty of Versailles signed

Jun 28, 1919

League of Nations established

Jan 10, 1920

Mussolini Marches on Rome

1922

30,000 Fascists marched on Rome and demanded the King make Mussolini the leader of Italy

Ruhr Crisis

Period: Jan 11, 1923 to Aug 25, 1925

Beer Hall Putsch

Nov 8, 1923

Stalin rises to power in Russia

1924

Hitler begins writing Mein Kampf

1924

Asian Exclusion Act (Immigration Act of 1924)

May 26, 1924

First Five Year Plan

Period: 1928 to 1932

The Great Depression

Period: 1929 to 1939

Mukden Incident -> Est. Manchukuo

Sep 18, 1931

Nazi Education Laws

1933

Second Five Year Plan

Period: 1933 to 1937

Hitler becomes chancellor

Jan 30, 1933

Reichstag burns down

Feb 27, 1933

Japan withdraws from the League of Nations

Mar 27, 1933

Nuremberg Laws enacted

Sep 15, 1935

The Great Purge under Stalin's rule

Period: 1936 to 1938

Anti-Comintern Pact

Nov 25, 1936

Marco Polo Bridge Incident

1937

Hitler-Stalin Non Aggression Pact

Aug 24, 1937

Nanjing Massacre begins

Dec 13, 1937

Appeasement Policy & Munich Conference

Sep 30, 1938

Annexation of Austria & Czechoslovakia

Mar 15, 1939

German-Soviet Non Aggression Pact signed

Aug 23, 1939

Invasion of Poland

Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Oct 6, 1939

German invasion of North Africa

1940

Fall of France

Jun 22, 1940

Battle of Britain

Period: Jul 10, 1940 to Oct 31, 1940

Tripartite Pact

Sep 27, 1940

Operation Reinhard

Period: 1941 to 1943

Operation Barbarossa

Period: Jun 22, 1941 to Dec 5, 1941

Siege of Leningrad

Period: Sep 8, 1941 to Jan 27, 1944

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Wannsee Conference

Jan 20, 1942

Final Solution decided upon

Japanese Occupation of Singapore

Period: Feb 15, 1942 to Sep 12, 1945

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Period: Apr 19, 1943 to May 16, 1943

Liberation of Auschwitz

Jan 27, 1945

End of WWII in Europe

May 8, 1945

Use of atomic weapon on Hiroshima

Aug 6, 1945

Use of atomic weapons on Nagasaki

Aug 9, 1945

End of WWII in the Pacific

Sep 2, 1945