Interwar Period: 1919-1939 Timeline

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First World War Armistice

November 11, 1918

Treaty of Versailles signed

June 28, 1919

Treaty of Saint-Germain

September, 1919

Aaland Dispute

1920 - 1921

First League of Nations meeting

November 1920

Little Entente formed

February 10, 1921

Washington Conference held

November 1921

Genoa Conference

April 10, 1922 - May 19, 1922

Treaty of Rapallo

April 16, 1922

Mussolini Italian Premier

October 30, 1922

French occupation of Ruhr

January, 1923 - 1925

Acerbo Law

July 1923

Gustav Stresemann German Chancellor

August 1923 - November 1923

Corfu Incident

August 29, 1923

Hyperinflation in Germany

September 1923

Primo de Rivera Spanish dictator

September 15, 1923 - January 28, 1930

Beer Hall Putsch

November 9, 1923

French-Czechoslovakian Alliance

January 25, 1924

Germany accepts Dawes Plan

August 27, 1924

Locarno Pacts

December 1, 1925

Treaty of Berlin

April 1926

Germany admitted into League of Nations

September 8, 1926

Kellogg-Briand Pact

August 27, 1928

Young Plan

1929

Wall Street Crash

October, 1929

Spanish Monarchy overthrown/Republic established

April 14, 1931

Hoover Moratorium

June 20, 1931

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

September 19, 1931 - February 27, 1932

Geneva Disarmament Conference

February 1932 - July 1932

Lausanne Conference

June 16, 1932 - July 9, 1932

HItler German Chancellor

January 30, 1933

Enabling Act

March 23, 1933

Japan leaves League of Nations

March 27, 1933

Four Power Pact

July 1933

German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact

January 26, 1934

USSR joins League of Nations

September 18, 1934

Saar returned to Germany

January 13, 1935

Germany introduces conscription

March 16, 1935

Stresa Front

April 14, 1935

Italian invasion of Abyssinia

October 3, 1935 - May, 1936

Japanese government under military dominance

February 1936

Germany remilitarises Rhineland

March 7, 1936

Spanish Civil War

July 17, 1936 - April 1, 1939

Rome-Berlin Axis

October 25, 1936

Anti-Comintern Pact

November 25, 1936

Start of Second Sino-Japanese War

July 7, 1937

Italy joins Anti-Comintern Pact

November 7, 1937

Italy leaves League of Nations

December 11, 1937

German anschluss of Austria

March 12, 1938

Munich Pact

September 18, 1938

Pact of Steel

May 22, 1939

Interwar period: 1919-1939