The interwar period

  • Founding of NSDAP ( Germany ) ( Weimar republic )

    Founding of NSDAP ( Germany ) ( Weimar republic )
    The German National Socialist Workers Party, colloquially known as the Nazi Party, was an active political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945 whose ideology was based on Nazism. Its predecessor was the German Workers'; Party (DAP), which existed between 1919 and 1920.
  • Founding of National Fascist Party ( Italy ) ( Monarchy of victor emmanuel III )

    Founding of National Fascist Party ( Italy ) ( Monarchy of victor emmanuel III )
    The National Fascist Party was an Italian political party, the highest expression of fascism and the only legal political formation during the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini, between 1925 and 1943. The PNF was founded in Rome on November 7, 1921 on the initiative of Mussolini when it became the party los Fasci italiani di combattimento.
  • March on Rome ( Italy ) ( Benito mussolini, il duce of italy )

    March on Rome ( Italy ) ( Benito mussolini, il duce of italy )
    The march on Rome (in Italian, Marcia su Roma) was a march to Rome organized by Benito Mussolini, then leader of the National Fascist Party, between October 27 and 29, 1922, which brought him to Italian power.
  • French occupation of the Ruhr ( Germany ) ( Weimar republic )

    French occupation of the Ruhr ( Germany ) ( Weimar republic )
    The occupation of the Ruhr between 11 January 1923 and 25 August 1925 by French and Belgian troops was the response to the failure of the Weimar Republic presided over by Friedrich Ebert in its obligation to assume economic compensation to the Allies after the defeat of the German Empire in the First World War.
  • The Dawes Plan ( Usa ) ( Roaring twenties )

    The Dawes Plan ( Usa ) ( Roaring twenties )
    The Dawes Plan is the program established on April 9, 1924, under the auspices of the United States to get the victorious allies of World War I (especially Britain, France, and the United States) to get their war reparations set forth in the Treaty of Versailles, while at the same time seeking to stabilize Germany's economy and prevent further damage as a result of such payments.
  • Death of Lenin ( Ussr ) ( Lenin )

    Death of Lenin ( Ussr ) ( Lenin )
    Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov (Lenin), communist leader and founder of the Soviet Union, died on January 21, 1924, in Moscow, at the age of 53. His funeral, held in January 1924, was followed by a funeral procession that toured Moscow and in which millions of people participated. His body is preserved embalmed.
  • Forced collectivisation. Gulags ( Ussr ) ( Stalin's dictatorship )

    Forced collectivisation. Gulags ( Ussr ) ( Stalin's dictatorship )
    In the Soviet Union, collectivization was a policy initiated by Yósif Stalin between 1928 and 1933, to consolidate land into popular domain and labor into collective farms or kolkhoz and state farms or sovkhoz.
    The Gulag was the branch of the NKVD that ran the penal system of forced-labor camps and many other police functions in the Soviet Union.
  • Black Thursday ( Usa ) ( Great depression )

    Black Thursday ( Usa ) ( Great depression )
    Black Thursday took place on October 24, 1929, the day on which the fall in the New York Stock Exchange and with it the Crack of the 29th and the Great Depression began. The collapse of the New York Stock Exchange on Black Thursday produced a situation of real panic that provoked the subsequent banking crisis in the United States.
  • Reichstag fire ( Germany ) ( Nazi dictatorship )

    Reichstag fire ( Germany ) ( Nazi dictatorship )
    The Reichstag fire was a fire committed against the Reichstag building in Berlin on 27 February 1933. The fire started in the session hall of the Reichstag building, where the German parliament was located.
  • President Roosevelt ( Usa ) ( New deal )

    President Roosevelt ( Usa ) ( New deal )
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American politician and lawyer who served as the thirty-second president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945 and has been the only one to win four presidential elections in that nation: the first in 1932, the second in 1936, the third in 1940 and the fourth in 1944. 1 He was one of the great architects of the allied victory in World War II.
  • Hitler, Führer and Chancellor of the Third Reich ( Germany ) ( Nazi dictatorship )

    Hitler, Führer and Chancellor of the Third Reich ( Germany ) ( Nazi dictatorship )
    Adolf Hitler was a German politician, soldier, painter and writer of Austro-Hungarian origin; imperial chancellor since 1933 and Führer (leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. He brought the German National Socialist Workers Party or Nazi Party to power and led a totalitarian regime during the period known as the Third Reich or Nazi Germany. In addition, he led Germany during World War II, which began with the main purpose of fulfilling its expansionist plans in Europe.
  • Invasion of Ethiopia ( Italy ) ( Benito mussolini, il duce of italy )

    Invasion of Ethiopia ( Italy ) ( Benito mussolini, il duce of italy )
    The Italian Invasion of Ethiopia, also called the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, was an armed conflict lasting seven months, between October 1935 and May 1936. It is seen as a sample of the expansionist policy that characterized the Axis Powers and the inefficiency of the League of Nations before the outbreak of World War II.