WWII By Cristina Caldentey Period: 1918 to 1924 FIRST STAGE Nov 11, 1918 End of WWI Jun 28, 1919 Treaty of Versailles Oct 1, 1920 League of Nations comes into force Oct 28, 1922 March on Rome Mussolini rises power in Italy. Dec 30, 1922 Sovietic Union is stablihed. USSR Period: Jan 1, 1924 to Dec 31, 1933 SECOND STAGE Jan 21, 1924 Dead Lenin rise power Stalin Lenin dies and Stalin assumes leadership of the USSR Sep 8, 1926 Join of Germany to the League of Nations Oct 1, 1928 Stalin's First Five-Year Plan in the USSR Industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. Oct 28, 1929 Wall Street Crash of 1919 The Great Depression begins. Sep 18, 1931 Japan invades Manchuria Period: 1933 to 1939 THIRD STAGE Jan 30, 1933 Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany Mar 4, 1933 Roosevelt rolls out the New Deal in response to the U.S. economic crisis Nov 12, 1933 Germany withdraws from the League of Nations Sep 15, 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws in Germany Jul 17, 1936 Spanish Civil War begins Dec 13, 1937 Italy withdraws from the League of Nations Mar 12, 1938 Anschluss: Germany annexes Austria Mar 15, 1939 Germany occupies Czechoslovakia Apr 1, 1939 Spainsh Civil War ends: Franco's dictatorship begin Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland: WWII begins