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World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919
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When the stock market collapsed on Wall Street on. It sent financial markets worldwide into a tailspin with disastrous effects.
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President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany.
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The Italian invasion and annexation of Abyssinia had strained relations between Italy and its allies Britain and France, and Benito Mussolini finally repudiated Italy's alliance with them.
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The Spanish Civil War begins as a revolt by right-wing Spanish military officers in Spanish Morocco and spreads to mainland Spain.
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The Versailles Treaty forbids the union of Germany and Austria in one state. However, this was one of the main demands expressed in Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf.
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British and French prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
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Hitler’s forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakia–a nation sacrificed on the altar of the Munich Pact, which was a vain attempt to prevent Germany’s imperial aims.
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This pact guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. (Germany and URSS)
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At 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory
