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| 1918 – Nov – Armistice signed ending WWI |
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| 1919 – The Paris Peace Conference begins |
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| 1920 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed by German leaders. The League of Nations is established |
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| 1920 – US Congress refuses to join the League of Nations |
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| 1920 – Vilna, League fails to prevent Poland occupying Vilna |
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| 1921 – Details of reparations set |
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| 1921 – Upper Silesia, a League organised plebiscite leads to a successful splitting of Upper Silesia between Germany and Poland |
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| 1921 – Aaland Islands, League decides the Islands should be given to Finland, Sweden accepts this decision |
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| 1923 – French and Belgian troops invade the Ruhr to claim unpaid reparations, a hyperinflation crisis follows |
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| 1923 – Corfu, Mussolini occupies Corfu in retaliation for the alleged murder of an Italian official on Greek-Albanian border. League fails to act against Italian aggression |
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| 1924 – Britain and France attempt to draw up a Geneva Protocol to strengthen the League saying that all members involved in a dispute would accept the League Council’s decisions. Britain failed to sign the Protocol after a change of government |
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| 1925 – The Locarno Treaties are signed, Germany accepts the details of the Treaty of Versailles |
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| 1925 – Greek invasion of Bulgaria condemned by the League and Greeks are forced to withdraw. They claim there is one rule for the bigger powers and one for the smaller ones. |
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| 1926 – Germany joins the League of Nations |
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| 1928 – The Kellogg-Briand Pact, nations agree not to go to war to settle international disputes |
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| 1929 – Oct – The Wall Street Crash plunges the world into an economic depression |
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| 1931-1933 – The Manchurian Crisis – Japan begins to build a Pacific Empire |
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| 1933 – Japan leaves the League of Nations |
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| 1933-35 – Hitler begins rearming Germany |
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| 1935-36 – The Abyssinian Crisis – Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
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| 1935 – People of the Saar vote to return to Germany after a plebiscite (vote) |
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| 1935 – Anglo-German Naval Treaty Britain helps Germany break the Treaty of Versailles by signing an agreement to allow Germany a navy one-third of the size of Britain's. |
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| 1936 – German troops re-occupy the Rhineland |
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| 1936 - Hitler tests his armed forces when German bombers, which are helping the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War, bomb the Spanish town of Guernica. Civilians in Britain and France are frightened. |
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| 1937 – Italy leaves the League of Nations |
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| 1938 – Hitler unifies Austria and Germany (Anschluss) |
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| 1938 – Hitler occupies the Sudetenland. Chamberlain signs Munich Agreement and declares ‘Peace in Our Time’ |
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| 1939 – Hitler invades Czechoslovakia |
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| 1939 – Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed by Foreign Ministers of Germany and Russia |
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| 1939 – Hitler invades Poland |
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