IK-timeline 1919-1939

By Inkyung Song (Helen)

  • Weimar Republic

    1. The Weimar republican created to replace the imperial form of German government.
    2. Political 3.Because they were playgued by serious economic problems.

  • Paris Peace Conference

    1. In Paris, Great Britain, United States, France, and Italy made peace and created a world organization, the League of Nations, to prevent future wars.
    2. Political
    3. Bacause it was the meeting of the Allied victors to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers following the armistices of 1918.

  • New Economic Policy

    1. was an economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who called it "state capitalism".
    2. Policy
    3. Because Lenin abandoned war communism in favor of his New Economic Policy (NEP). It was a modified version of the old capitalist system.

  • Reparation

    1. the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.
    2. Social
    3. Because, in Paris Peace conference, other countries required reparations to cover the costs of the war. In Treaty of Versailles, Germany finall accepted the treaty.

  • Nazi Party

    1. the political party founded in Germany in 1919 and brought to power by Hitler in 1933
    2. Political
    3. It advocated right-wing authoritarian nationalist government and developed a racist ideology.
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    Joseph Stalin

    1. In 1924, Stalin held the bureaucratic job of party general secretary.
    2. Political
    3. He used his post as general secretary to gain complete control of the communist Party. The Stalin Era marked the beginning of an economic, social, and political revolution. He promote rights for women.
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    Benito Mussolini

    1. He was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister.
    2. Political
    3. He set up the first European fascist movement in Italy. He created League of Combat.

  • Ruhr Valley

    1. Valley of the Ruhr River, in west-central Germany; Germany's principal industrial region.
    2. Military
    3. France sent troops to occupy the Ruhr Valley, Germany's chief industrial and mining center. France wanted to collect reparations by using the Ruhr mines and factories.

  • Soviet Union

    1. Lenin and the Communists create the USSR.
    2. Political
    3. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that was a socialist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991, governed as a single-party state by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital.
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    V.I. Lenin

    1. Lenin was a party dedicated to violent revolution could destroy the capitalist . Political
    2. He wanted to form a small party of well-disciplined, professional revolutionaries to accomplish the task.
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    Nuremberg Party Rallies

    1. It was the annual rally of the Nazi Party in Germany
    2. Political
    3. It was held every september to evok mass enthusiasm and excitement. They were large propaganda.

  • Dawes Plan

    1. the Reparations Commission of the Allied nations.
    2. Economic
    3. It is first reduced reparations. It coordinated Germany's annual payments with its ability to pay and granted an initial $200 million loan for German ecovery.

  • Schutzstaffeln (SS)

    1. It was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP).
    2. Military
    3. Hitler used it to form an order of men claimed to be superior in racial purity and ability

  • Treaty of Locarno

    1. Series of agreements whereby Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy mutually guaranteed peace in western Europe.
    2. Social
    3. The foreign ministers of Germany and France signed it, which guaranteed Germany's new western borders with France and Belgium

  • Facism

    1. An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization
    2. Social
    3. Benito Mussolini consolidated control over the Fascist movement in 1919 with the founding of the Fasci italiani di combattimento, whose opposition to socialism he declared: Mussolini establisheds a Facist dictaorship in Italy

  • The First Five-Year Plan

    1. It was a list of economic goals, created by Josef Stalin and based off his policy of Socialism in One Country, that was designed to strengthen the country's economy between 1928 and 1932.
    2. Economy
    3. It set economic goals for five-year periodsto transform Russia virtually overnight from an agricultural into an induatrial country.

  • Collectivization

    1. the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism.
    2. Economy
    3. It was a system in which private farms were eliminated. The government owned all of the land, and the peasants worked it.

  • Kellogg-Brian Pact

    1. It was an agreement to outlaw war signed on August 27, 1928
    2. Social
    3. Renounces aggresive war but offended no one or had any machinery of enforcementIllusion of peace and security.

  • Himmler Heinrich

    1. He was the Reich Leader (Reichsführer) of the dreaded SS of the Nazi party from 1929 until 1945
    2. Millitary
    3. He was a military commander. He controled SS which is not only the secret police forces that Himmler had set up, but also the regular police forces. His goal was to further the Aryan master race.

  • Inflation

    1. a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money
    2. Economy
    3. the US stock market crashed, and Stock prices plunged. During the great depression, cash disappeared. Nobody had any and you could buy things for "pennies on the dollar" if you had cash. Money in banks evaporated when banks went bankrupt. Now there is FDIC which prevents depositors from loosing everything.
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    The Great Depression

    1. Low economic activity and rising unemplyment.
    2. Economy
    3. Major cause were US stock market crashses in 1919, and overproduction of farm products caused prices fall. Many governments had no idea of what to do.

  • Japan invades Manchuria

    1. The Japanese invasion of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan, beginning on September 19, 1931, immediately followed the Mukden Incident.
    2. Military
    3. The Japanese occupation of Manchuria lasted until the end of World War II.

  • New Deal

    1. U.S. domestic program of Pres. Franklin Roosevelt to bring economic relief
    2. Political
    3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt pursued a policy of active governmenttal ecnomic intervention. It included an increased program of public works (WPA) for unemployment and old-age
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    The Nazi State

    1. A state of emergency and end many individual freedoms.
    2. Political
    3. Hitler had a larger goal which is the deveolpment of an Aryan(Perfect race) racial state that would dominate Europe and possibly the world for generations to come.
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    Adolf Hitler

    1. He is German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party.
    2. Military
    3. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He links extreme German nationalism, strong anti-Semitism, and anti-communism together by a Social Darwinian theory of struggle which emphasizes the rights of superior nations to lebensraum. He believed that their nations are Aryan (perfect) race.

  • Concentration Camps

    1. It is prison camps for people who opposed the government. It used to hold and torture political opponents and union organizers.
    2. Military
    3. Sometimes, to provide forced labor or to await mass execution

  • Enabling Act

    1. a piece of legislation by which a legislative body grants an entity which depends on it for authorization or legitimacy the power to take certain actions.
    2. Political
    3. This law gace the government the power to ignore the constitution for four years while it issued laws to deal with the country's problems. It also gave Hilter's actions a legal basis.

  • Nuremberg Laws

    1. two laws which excluded the Jews from German life, as well as took away some of their natural rights.
    2. Political
    3. defined who was considered a Jew excluded from German citizenship stripped Jews of their civil rights, and forbade marriages between Jews and German citizens

  • Francisco Franco

    1. He was the dictator of Spain. Coming from a military background, he became the youngest general in Europe in the 1920s.
    2. Military
    3. When chaos swept Spain, the Spanish militar forces under Franco's leadership revolted against the democratic government in 1936.

  • Kristallnacht

    1. Or the night of sharttered glass. It is a more violent phase of anti-Jewish activity. The Jews were forced to clean up all the debris and damage.
    2. Social
    3. Almost 200 synagogues were destroyed, over 8,000 Jewish shops were sacked and looted, and tens of thousands of Jews were removed to concentration camps.