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The Road to World War II
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The Treaty of Versailles signed
It was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. The treaty forced Germany to disarm, make territorial concessions, and pay reparations. -
The Global Depression begins
It began when the stock market collapsed on Wall Street, it sent financial markets worldwide into a tailspin with disastrous effects, including German market. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
This day marked the beginning of the end of the Weimar Republic, as Hitler is named chancellor of Germany. -
The Spanish Civil War
It begins as a revolt by right-wing Spanish military officers, leaded by Franco, against the Republicans. -
Rome Berlin Axis: Hitler-Mussolini Alliance
After supporting General Franco in the Spanish civil war, Germany and Italy signed this formal alliance to follow a common foreign policy. Thereafter, Germany and her partners would be known as the Axis powers. -
Anschluss with Austria
On this day, Adolf Hitler announces an “Anschluss” (union) between Germany and Austria, in fact annexing the smaller nation into a greater Germany. -
The Munich Agreement
Reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia. -
Nazis invade Czechoslovakia
German troops marched into Czechoslovakia. They took over Bohemia, and established a protectorate over Slovakia. It was the end of appeasement. -
The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
This pact guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. Germany had protected itself from having to fight a two-front war and the Soviet Union was awarded land. -
Nazis invade Poland
On this day took place the massive invasion of Poland all along its border with German territory.
