years of crisis

  • The Paris Peace Conference comes to an end with the inaugural General Assembly of the League of Nations

  • The Treaty of Berlin is signed by Germany and the Soviet Union, which declares neutrality if either country is attacked within the next five years.

  • Stock market on wall street crashes down.

    Stock market on wall street crashes down.
    Due to the stock market crash, it starts a world-wide Depression.The stock that is left is raised to higher prices since there is not many of the same stock. Many people go unemployed or even homeless due to this mistake. Due to many people going homeless, they are force to live in makeshift houses in towns called "Hoovervilles", since everyone is in debt. This is soon called the Great Depression and it last for 10 years. From 1929 to 1939.
  • Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
    Hitler's plan was to embrace by much of Germany's population, was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful, unified one-party state.He gained 37 percent of the vote, making it the largest single party in Germany. Also the party was the most powerful party in Germany as well.
  • Civil war erupts in Spain

    Civil war erupts in Spain
    The Spanish Civil war broke out when the Spanish Army in Morocco when a few of the most influent generals of the Spanish Army, led by General Francisco Franco, rose up against the democratically elected Republican government, presided over by Manuel Azana.
  • Soviet leader Josef Stalin begins a purge of Red Army generals

    Soviet leader Josef Stalin begins a purge of Red Army generals
    Stalin's purge, also called The Great Purge or the Great Terror, was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938. The Great Purge instituted a new type of terror in which the boundaries of those oppressed were practically nonexistent. Any stain on the record, including mere association with a perceived enemy, brought one under , the Soviet secret police. So called enemies of the people were charged with treason, wrecking, espionage and more.
  • German military mobilizies

  • German troops occupy the Sudetenland

  • Pact of steel

    Pact of steel
    The Pact of Steel was an agreement between Italy and Germany. The agreement publicity entered into an alliance, pledging mutual support in war and war production, while requiring that, in case of war, one country could not negotiate for peace without agreement of the other.
  • Germany's plan to invade poland

    Germany's plan to invade poland
    Germany, under Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, and the Soviet Union, under Communist Joseph Stalin, sign the Non aggression Pact, which accepts Germany's plan to invade Poland.