Key dates

Cards (23)

November 11th 1918 
The armistice is signed, ending the First World War
June 1919 
The treaty of Versailles is signed
1921 
Poland invades Vilna; the Aaland Islands crisis
August 1923 
The Corfu Crisis
October 1925 
The Greek-Bulgarian dispute
October-December 1925 
The Locarno Treaties
October 1929 
The Wall Street Crash leads to global depression
September 1931 
The Mukden Incident; Japan invades Manchuria
January 1933  
Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
October 1933 
Hitler leaves the disarmament conference
July 1934 
The Nazi Party in Austria assassinated the Austrian chancellor, Dollfuss
January 1935  
The Saar Plebiscite
March 1935  
Hitler announces that he has built up the Luftwaffe and that conscription will be introduced to build up the German Army
June 1935 
The Anglo-German Naval Treaty
October 1935 
Mussolini invades Abyssinia
March 1936 
The Rhineland is remilitarised
October 1936 
The Rome-Berlin axis is agreed
November 1936 
The anti-Comintern Pact is agreed between Germany and Japan
March 1938 
Hitler invades Austria to achieve Anschluss
September 1938 
Chamberlain meets Hitler to discuss the Sudeten crisis
October 1938 
German troops invade and occupy the Sudetenland
August 1939 
The Nazi-Soviet pact is signed
September 1939 
Hitler invades Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany