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Treaty of Versailles Signed
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League of Nations is Formed
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Nazi Party Founded
The Nazi Party was a mass movement that came to rule through totalitarian means. German pride was encouraged and dissatisfaction was shown toward the Treaty of Versailles. The significance is when this group rose to power, their anti- Jewish push started to multiply in mass and fierceness. They invaded or occupied Poland, the Soviet Union, and other countries in Europe. Jews were shot, put in ghettos until they starved, or sent to death camps and forced to do hard slave labor. -
Stalin Launches the First Five Year Plan
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Stock Market of the United States Crashes
Weaknesses in the American economy started to cause serious problems. People bought stocks on credit and investors begin selling stocks, which lowers prices. The stock market collapsed as prices fell very low. The significance is that the crash is one of the major causes of the Great Depression, which was a long business slump marked by failures, loss of savings, and unemployment. American economic problems created problems in other countries as well, making world trade fall sharply. -
Start of the Salt March
Gandhi created the walk as an act of nonviolent protest against the British government’s salt monopoly, which put taxes on the mineral and didn’t allow Indians to make it. The significance was that the march got attention from the rest of the world and showed the strength of massive nonviolent resistance towards the rule of the British. -
First Concentration Camp Established by Nazi Government
Dachau was the first concentration camp established by the Nazi government. In the beginning, it housed political prisoners, but it eventually became a death camp where thousands of people died from malnutrition, disease, overwork, or execution. The significance is that this was the first of many brutal concentration camps that would be set up by Adolf Hitler. -
Emergency Banking Act
The Emergency Banking Act was legislation that attempted to restore the public’s confidence in America’s financial system. The significance is that many banks were able to reopen, the president was given more control, which let him use his executive power to make decisions to save the economy, and the Federal Reserve started to emerge which would eventually back citizen’s money so that they can always obtain it. -
German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact
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Adolf Hitler Becomes Fuhrer
After the death of the German President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Adolf Hitler took the title of Fuhrer, or "Leader", and became the absolute dictator of Germany. The significance of this event is that Hitler was given total military and government control, leading to the invasion of Poland, which started World War II, and he was responsible for the death of around 6 million people in concentration camps. -
Munich Agreement
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German Invasion of Poland
