The League of Nations

  • The Paris Peace conference

    Allied leafers meet and draw up Treaty of Versailles and other peace treaties
  • 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 as France invades the Ruhr and inflation makes money worthless

  • The Dawes Plan

    to avert a terrible economic crisis in Germany, the USA lent money to Germany to help it pay its reperations bill.
  • The Locarno Treaties

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

  • The Kellogg-Briand Pact

    Briand Pact: most nations agree not to go to war to settle international disputes
  • Young Plan

    reduced Germany's reperations payments.
  • The Wall Street Crash

    followed by worldwide economic depression
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    The Manchurian crisis

    Japan begins building a Pacific empire
  • Japan leaves the League

  • Hitler becomes the leader of Germany

  • Germany leaves the league

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    Germant Rearms

  • German Troops enter the Rhineland

  • Italy leaves the League

  • Chamberlain's policy of appeasement culminates in the Munich agrrement

  • Hitler invades poland