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One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
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The longest, deepest, and most widespread economic depression of the 20th century caused after a fall in stock prices.
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In the election of late 1932 the Nazis won 37 per cent of the vote. Anxious to regain power, von Papen struck a deal to make Hitler Chancellor
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The Spanish Civil War broke out as a result of the revolutionary process begun under the democratic Second Republic of Spain, which had been inaugurated in 1931.
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German troops get into Austria. Hitler announced his Anschluss and 99.7% of the people who voted wanted the union.
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Military and political alliance between fascist Germany and Italy.
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A settlement that let Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined.
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As soon as he had signed the Munich agreement, Hitler set about conquering the rest of Czechoslovakia. He ordered his army to be ready to invade.
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Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union surprised the world by signing the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler claimed the massive invasion was a defensive action, but Britain and France were not convinced. On September 3, they declared war on Germany, initiating World War II.
