Peacemaking and Peacekeeping Timeline

  • Bolshevik Revolution

    Bolshevik Revolution was the aftermath of the February War.
  • Wilson's Fourteen Points

    The Fourteen Points outlined the fourteen elements Wilson felt were essential to a lasting peace, it was delivered to establish moral goals for America's participation in World War I.
  • Armistice

    The last day of World War One was November 11th 1918, known as Armistice Day. The Armistice means that casualties occurred even as the people of Paris, London and New York were celebrating the end of the fighting.
  • Paris Peace Conference

    The Paris Peace Conference was an international meeting convened in January 1919 at Versailles just outside Paris. The purpose of the meeting was to establish the terms of the peace after World War.
  • Treaty of Versailles

    The Treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement signed after World War One had ended in 1918 and in the shadow of the Russian Revolution and other events in Russia.
  • Treaty of St. Germain

    The Treaty of St. Germain, strictly the Treaty of St. Germain-en-Laye, was signed with Austria after World War One had ended.
  • Treaty of Neuilly

    The Treaty of Neuilly, strictly the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine, was signed with Bulgaria after World War One had ended.
  • United States congress Fail to ratify Treaty

    Personal enmity between Wilson and Lodge played a part. Wilson might have prudently invited a prominent Republican to accompany him to Paris to help ensure its later passage. Wilson's fading health eliminated the possibility of making a strong personal appeal on behalf of the treaty.
  • Treaty of Trianon

    The Treaty of Trianon was signed with Hungary after World War One had ended.
  • Treaty of Sevres

    The Treaty of Sèvres was signed with the Ottoman Empire after the end of World War One.
  • Franco-Polish Treaty

    The Franco-Polish Treaty was presented in order to coordinate their endeavours towards peace the two Governments undertake to consult each other on all questions of foreign policy which concern both States, so far as those questions affect the settlement of international relations in the spirit of the treaties and in accordance with the Covenant of the League of Nations.
  • Treaty of Riga

    The Treaty of Riga ended the Polish-Soviet War and set the eastern border of Poland that remained constant throughout the interwar period.
  • Washington Naval Conference

    was a military conference convened by the Congress and President Warren G. Harding in 1921. This conference was the first international conference held in the U.S. and was attended by nine nations which included; Japan, China, United States, France, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Britain and Netherlands.
  • Treaty of Rapallo

    The Treaty was an agreement signed by Germany and the USSR at Rapallo, Italy.
  • Mussolini Rise Election

    Mussolini's public posturing and boasts did not guarantee loyalty in Italy. He only gained what could be described as dictatorial powers after the Lateran Treaty whereby he could guarantee loyalty from those Catholics who may well have not been supporters of the fascist state in Italy.
  • Ruhr Crisis

    When Germany signed the Rapallo Treaty, France saw this as a way for Germany to avoid her obligations to France and Britain, and believed the only way to make them pay up was by force. When Germany missed a delivery of timber as part of her payments, France declared Germany in default and sent French and Belgian troops to invade Ruhr against the pleads and objections from Britain.
  • Franco-Czech Alliance

    The President of the French Republic and the President of Czech Republic, being earnestly desirous of upholding the principle of international agreements which was solemnly confirmed by the Covenant of the League of Nations.
  • Locarno Treaty

    The Locarno Treaty enabled Germany to be admitted to the League of Nations. However, Adolf Hitler tore up the treaty when he sent in the German Army into the Rhineland in 1936.
  • Germany Joins League

    The aggressor of that war, Germany, was notably not invited to participate; per the Treaty of Versailles they were disarmed and saddled with large reparations. But in striving for international recognition and a spot on the world stage, Germany applied to join the organization, showing they reformed.
  • Geneva Naval Conference

    The Geneva Naval Conference of 1927 was a gathering of the United States, Great Britain and Japan, to discuss making joint limitations to their naval capacities.
  • Pact of Paris

    agreement, signed Aug. 27, 1928, condemning "recourse to war for the solution of international controversies." It is more properly known as the Pact of Paris. The Kellogg-Briand Pact was given an unenthusiastic reception by many countries.
  • Sign of the Depression

    The Depression affected virtually every country of the world. Germany’s economy slipped into a downturn early in 1928 and then stabilized before turning down again in the third quarter of 1929. The decline in German industrial production was roughly equal to that in the United States.
  • London Naval Treaty

    The treaty was an agreement entered in to by the: US, UK, Japan, France, and Italy, which was in place to regulate naval shipbuilding and submarine warfare.
  • Manchuria Crisis

    The Japanese military immediately seized the opportunity to move soldiers from a base already established on the Liaodong Peninsula into other areas of South Manchuria.
  • Geneva Disarmament Conference

    The Geneva Disarmament Conference was an effort by member states of the League of Nations, together with the U.S. and the United Kingdom, to actualize the ideology of disarmament.
  • Chancellor Hitler

    Hitler's emergence as chancellor marked a crucial turning point for Germany and, ultimately, for the world. His plan, embraced by much of the German population, was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful, unified one-party state.
  • Japan Leaves League

    The Japanese delegation, defying world opinion, withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly today after the assembly had adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria.
  • Germany Leaves League

    Germany withdrew from the League because the Disarmament Conference was a failure and Hitler needed to rearm Germany -- Hitler used the meeting with the League of Nations about disarmament because he knew that France would refuse.
  • USSR Joins League

    The League of Nations adopted a resolution on the admission of the USSR into the League and the inclusion of its representative to its Board as a permanent member. The USSR joined because they had nothing to lose.
  • Rhineland occupied by Germany

    Under the terms of Versailles, the Rhineland had been made into a demilitarised zone. Germany had political control of this area, but she was not allowed to put any troops into it.
  • Rome Berlin Axis signed

    The Axis made the idea of WWII.
  • Italy Leaves League

    Italian troops were captured in the battle of Guadalajara, proving that four Italian divisions were fighting. In September 1937 the Mediterranean powers met to stop submarine warfare, and on the 16th Spanish prime minister Juan Negrin went to the League and asked them to protect Spanish ships and condemn Italy for the losses.