Years of Crisis

  • Treaty of Versailles

    starting point
  • Rise of totalitarianism

    Control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution.
  • Mussolini takes over

  • Beer Hall Putsch Mein Kampf

    Failed attempt by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler.
  • Stalin gains power

  • Hilter becomes chanellor

    Adolf Hitler was not elected to power in Germany by an overwhelming upsurge of popular demand. The Nazi Party certainly achieved substantial support, winning 37 per cent of the total vote.
  • Reichstag fire

    Young Dutch council communist, was caught at the scene of the fire and arrested for the crime.
  • Nuremburg Laws

    Excluded the Jews from German life, as well as took away some of their natural rights.
  • Munich Confernce

    Result of a long series of negotiations.
  • Kristallnacht

  • Nazi-soviet Non- aggression

  • Germen Invasion of Poland

    end point