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Treaty of Versailles signed
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League of Nations
Was established to prevent another war (after WWI) I think this event is important because it stops another war -
Treaty of Rapallo
Agreement between Germany and Russia to cancel any pre-war debts -
French occupation of Ruhr
Germany defaulted its reparations to France, so the French moved in to occupy the Ruhr. This is important becasue it details the French advancment -
Dawes Plan
Financial aid offered to Germany by the US for assisting in restructuring of reparation payments after WWI in loans. -
Locarno Treaties
Agreement defining Germany's western borders with France and Belgium with Britain and Italy as guarantors. This is important because it sets limits for all powerful Germany -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Renounces aggresive war but offended no one or had any machinery of enforcement.
Important because it shows an illusion of peace and security -
Japan invades Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan, beginning on September 19, 1931, immediately followed the Mukden Incident. The Japanese occupation of Manchuria lasted until the end of World War II. -
Hitler rises to dictatorship
On March 23, the newly elected Reichstag met in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin to consider passing Hitler's Enabling Act. It was officially called the "Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich."
Hitler needed 31 non-Nazi votes to pass it. He got those votes from the Catholic Center Party after making a false promise to restore some basic rights already taken by decree. Important because Hitler was the cause of millions of deaths -
Ethiopia invaded by Italy
Ethiopia (Abyssinia), which Italy had unsuccessfully tried to conquer in the 1890s, was in 1934 one of the few independent states in a European-dominated Africa. A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Benito Mussolini an excuse to intervene. Rejecting all arbitration offers, the Italians invaded Ethiopia on Oct. 3, 1935. -
Rhineland reoccupied by Hitler
On March 7, 1936 a small contingent of German troops, increased considerably in number in the following days, marched into the Rhineland demilitarized zone bordering France. Important because it showed the power regained by hitler and how they could go up against the French -
German Invasion of Poland
