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The Interwar Years: Important Events

  • The creation of the League of Nations

    The creation of the League of Nations
    Description: The league was a collabrative group that was dedicated to preventing future wars. Unfortunately the groups mission was a failure as war had begun. Significance: The league was created as a national interest for all nations because it was meant to keep peace and fight the interest of all human beings.
  • The Japanese Invasion of Manchuria

    The Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
    Description: This conflict was where the Japanese Army invaded Manchuria China for it's natural resources. Significance: The Japanese did it for national interests at the cost of China. Japan wanted to use their resources to trade it for food for their nation's starving people.
  • Hitlers Program of Rearmament

    Hitlers Program of Rearmament
    Description: This was a program created by Hitler to expand Germany into a larger military force and give them weapons. Significance: Hitler wanted to give Germany dignity and power that was once taken and get revenge.
  • The invasion of Abyssinia

    The invasion of Abyssinia
    Description: The invasion of Abyssinia was fought by the Italian army,defeating the Abyssinia army and taking over their army. Significance: It was for the expansion of the Italian nation to help reunite other italian speaking populations on lands that Italy believed was entitled to belong to them.
  • The Reoccupation of the Rhineland

    The Reoccupation of the Rhineland
    Description: Hitler's forces reoccupy the Rhineland and start gaining more weapons, soldiers, and means of transport like submarines. Significance: Germany set out to gain their dignity back after they were stripped of things a nation has.
  • The Spanish Civil War

    The Spanish Civil War
    Description: This was a war that involved many Spainyards who were killed because of what religion and politics they believed in.
    Significance: Spainyards fought for the interests of all Spanish nations that didn't deserve to be prejudised for the freedoms they qualify for.
  • Anchuluss With Austria

    Anchuluss With Austria
    Description: Ancschluss is a German word for unification.The union occured when Hitler threatened the leader of Austria with an ultimatum. Significance: it was thought by Hitler that uniting with Austria was for the national interest of German ethnicity to make a perfect German speaking only country.
  • The Munich Conference

    The Munich Conference
    Description: Was a meeting that gave Germany power over Czechoslovakia for appeasement. Significance:Czechoslovakia was given by British leader Neville Chamberlain in the hopes that Hitler wouldn't make any other demands. It was for the British nations interest to prevent a war.
  • The Invasion of the rest of czechoslovakia by Germany

    The Invasion of the rest of czechoslovakia by Germany
    Description: Czechoslovakia was another country given to Germans because of a threat. Significance: It was handed over in an interest to prevent nations from war started by Hitler. Hitler wanted to expand germany and unite the German ethnicity.
  • The Nazi-Soviet Pact

    The Nazi-Soviet Pact
    Description: Germany promised the Soviets not to invade their land if the Soviets wouldn't fight them. Significance: The pact was for both nations interests because it would prevent any arguments resulting in paying war damages or losing the population.
  • The invasion of Poland

    The invasion of Poland
    Description: German and Soviet forces took over Poland's land together. Significance: Germany was expanding for the sake of German ethnicity and Soviets were doing what Hitler asked to spare their nation.