The first world war

  • The Paris Peace Conference

    The Paris Peace Conference - Allied leaders meet and draw up Treaty of Versailles and other peace treaties
  • The League of Nations

    The League of Nations set up to sort out disputes between 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

    Crisis in Germany as France invades the Ruhr and inflation makes money worthless
  • The Dawes Plan

    To avert a terrrble economic crisis in Germany, the USA lent money to Germnay to help it to pay its rearations bill (see page 242)
  • Locarno treaties

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

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

    Germany joins the League of Nations
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact

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

    The Kellogg Briand Pact most nations agree not to go to war to settle inter national disputes
  • Young Plan

    Reduced Germanys reparations paybacks
  • The wall street crash

    The wall street crash followed by worldwide economic depression
  • The Manchurian crisis

    The Manchurian crisis - Japan begins building a Pacific empire
  • Japan leaves the League

    Japan leaves the League
  • Germany leaves the league

    Germany leaves the league
  • Hitler becomes leader of Germany

    Hitler becomes leader of Germany
  • Germany reams

    Germany reams 1933 - 1935
  • The Abyssinian crisis

    The Abyssinian crisis - italy invades Abyssinian
  • German troops ebter the Rhineland

    German troops ebter the Rhineland
  • italy leaves the League

    italy leaves the League
  • Chamberlains Policy

    Chamberlains Policy of appeasements culminates in the Munich agreement
  • Hitler invades Poland

    Hitler invades Poland