Preceden

Interwar years

General

Mussolini comes to power

10/22/1922

Hitler to power

1/1933

USA recognises the USSR

1933

Political treaties, agreements

Italian membership

1919 - 1937

Treaty of Versailles

6/28/1919

Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

9/10/1919

Treaty splitting Austria-Hungary

Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine

11/27/1919

League of Nations

1/1920

Treaty of Trianon

6/4/1920

Treaty of Sèvres

8/10/1920

Washington Disarmament Conference

11/1921

Naval disarmaments. Failed.

Rapallo Treaty

4/16/1922

Army training - Germany sends people to Russia.

Locarno Treaties

12/3/1925

Signatories agreed to normalise their relations to Germany, and secure post-war territorial settlement.

Kellogg-Briand Pact

8/27/1928

Signatories agreed to not use means of war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them."

Hoover Moratorium

6/1931

US President issues a moratorium on war debts.

World Disarmament Conference

1932 - 10/1933

Ended in a failure.

German-Polish non-agression agreement

1934

Anglo-German Naval Agreement

1935

Germany could expand the navy beyond the limitations of the Versailles Treaty.

Stresa Front

1935

Italy, France, UK.
Reinforced Locarno Treaties.

German remilitarises Rhineland

1936

Spanish Civil War

7/1936

German-Japanese Alliance

1938

Anschluss

3/12/1938

Munich

10/1938

UK and Germany signs a pact where Sudetenland became German. Germany promised not to make any more demands.

Czechoslovakia becomes German

3/1939

UK becomes guarantee for Poland

3/1939

Pact of Steel

5/1939

Non-Agression Pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact)

8/1939

Economy

Genoa Conference

4/10/1922 - 5/19/1922

Dawes Plan

8/1924 - 8/31/1929

Young Plan

8/31/1929 - 1933

Crash of Wall Street

10/24/1929

Conflicts

Occupation of Ruhr Valley

1/11/1923 - 8/1925

Corfu Incident

8/29/1923 - 9/27/1923

Boundary disputes between Albania and Greece. Italian officials killed. Mussolini then invades the Greek isle of Corfu.

Invasion of Manchuria

9/19/1931 - 2/27/1932

Abyssinian Crisis

10/3/1935 - 12/18/1936

Second Sino-Japanese War

7/1937 - 1945

Italy attacks Albania

4/7/1939 - 4/12/1939

German invasion of Poland

9/1/1939

World War 2

9/1/1939 - 9/2/1945

UK, France declares war

9/3/1939

Soviet Union invades Poland

9/17/1939

League of Nations

British membership

1919 - 1939

French membership

1919 - 1939

Italian membership

1919 - 1937

Japanese membership

1919 - 3/1933

German membership

1926 - 10/1933

Soviet membership

1934 - 1939