Treaty of Versailles

By Mdawg1127

  • The signing of Treaty of Versailles

    The signing of Treaty of Versailles
    The treaty was a peace settlement between Germany and the Allied Powers right after World War I. The three most important politicians there were David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson.
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    Treaty of Versailles

  • 18th Amendment introduces prohibition of intoxicating liquors.

    United States

  • Earle Dickson invented Band-Aid

  • William Potts invented the traffic light.

  • Germany has to pay 269 billion Goldmarks and, for 42 years,12% of the value of German exports (another some 1-2 Billions a year).

  • German war expenses from 1914-18 amount to some 150 Billions. This money was collected mainly via war bonds and has to be repaid by the state to the population.

  • John Larson invented the lie detector

  • The German reparations are newly fixed to 132 Billion Goldmarks, payable in 37 years.

  • The US, not having signed the treaty of Versailles, makes its own peace treaty with Germany and Austria.

  • In the German-Soviet treaty of Rapallo both sides take up diplomatic relations and agree that any open questions resulting from the war are settled.

  • In Italy the nationalist movement under Mussolini, disappointed with the results of the war for Italy, takes power.

  • Mussolini takes control in Italy.

  • The US withdraws their troops from the still occupied areas of Germany.

  • German cancellor Cuno declares "passive resistance". The costs for this are mainly financed by printing bills in Germany.

  • The German Reich has reached it's economic and financial breaking point.The German Reich has reached it's economic and financial breaking point.

  • The Beerhall Putch of Hitler.

  • Germany becomes de jure a military government, but von Seeckt does not misuse his power.

  • Hitler is arrested and sentenced to fortress prison (which means without loss of honour).

  • Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.

  • The IBM corporation was founded.

  • The Wrigley Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States is completed.

  • Ellis Island closes as an immigration entry point to the US.

  • The Indian Citizenship Act passed on which confers citizenship on all Native Americans born within the United States.

  • After operating the Sears catalog for nearly 40 years Sears Robuck opens its first retail store in Chicago, Illinois.

  • Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney.

  • The First Motel (Motorists Hotel) opens in San Luis Obispo, California.

  • Pontiac cars begin to be made.

  • U.S. Route 66 is created and runs from Chicago to Los Angeles.

  • Nobel Peace Prize is shared by Gustav Stresemann of Germany and Aristide Briand of France.

  • Hirohito is crowned emperor of Japan.

  • First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London.

  • Edwin Perkins invented Kool-Aid

  • The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 affects 700,000 people in the greatest national disaster in US history.

  • Charles Lindbergh flies The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic nonstop and solo, direct from New York City to Paris, as the first solo transatlantic flight.

  • Earthquake measuring 8.6 on Richter scale strikes Xining, China killing 200,000

  • Work begins on Mount Rushmore.

  • The Holland Tunnel under the Hudson River opens on connecting New York City with Jersey.

  • Litinow-protocol. A non-aggression pact between the Soviet-Union, Rumania, Poland Lithuania and Estonia.

  • Black Friday on the stock exchance of New York starts the world economic crisis.

  • Japan invades Manchuria in China

  • Italy Prime Minister Benito Mussolini

  • War between Japan and China begins.

  • Japan occupies Mukden and other places in Manchuko.

  • Japan creates the "independent" state of Mandchuko (under Japanese protection).

  • Leo Gerstenzang invented Q-tips

  • Japanese special interests are acknowledged and it proposes to make Manchuko a autonomous part of China under Japanese control.

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of the German Reich.

  • Japan leaves the League of Nation as a reaction on the Lytton-report (resolution from Febr. 25).

  • Germany withdraws from the Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments

  • Germany leaves the Leage of Nations

  • Germany gives notice of withdrawal from the League of Nations

  • The Soviet-Union enters the League of Nations.

  • The Council decides that the Saar Territory should be united with Germany (rather than with France)

  • Germany takes over the Government of the Saar Territory

  • German-British Fleet agreement.

  • Italy invades Abessinia.

  • German-Italian treaty between Rome and Berlin (the Axis)

  • Roosevelt renounces the neutrality policy towards Japan.

  • Italy leaves the League of Nations.

  • German troops enter Austria which is annexed one day later.

  • Italy wins the World Cup in France defeating Hungary

  • United States begins serious preparations for war.

  • The Soviet Union offers a Soviet-British-French alliance which would guarantee the integrity of Poland.

  • Japanese attack on disputed border areas is renewed between Japanese and Soviets. Japanese are eventually heavily defeated.

  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland
    1.5 million German troops invaded Poland all along its 1,750-mile border. The Polish army was able to mobolize one million men but was hopelessly outmatched in every respect. Germany invaded poland because they had already annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia and no one had stopped them. So Germany sent their troops in thinking no one would step in and stop them. They had a non aggression pact with Russia to carve up Poland between them.

  • Soviets and Japanese sign another armistice on Manchurian border. This frees the Soviets to move troops to the west.

  • Soviet troops enter Poland and advance to the demarcation-line.