Conflict & Tension: The Inter-War Years

• 11 November 1918: Armistice signed, ending the First World War
• January 1919 


  Paris Peace Conference
• June 1919 


  Treaty of Versailles signed
• June 1921 


  Poland invades Vilna; the Aaland Islands crisis
• August 1923 


  Corfu Crisis
• October 1925 


  Greek-Bulgarian dispute
• October-December 1925 


  Locarno Treaties
• October 1929 


  Wall Street Crash; leads to global depression
• September 1931: The Mukden Incident; the Japanese army invades Manchuria
• October 1933 


  Hitler leaves the Disarmament Conference
• July 1934: Nazi party in Austria assassinate Austrian chancellor Dollfuss
• January 1935 


  Saar Plebiscite
• June 1935 


  Anglo-German Naval Treaty
• October 1936 


  Rome-Berlin Axis is agreed
• November 1936: Italy joins Anti-Comintern Pact which had originally been agreed between Germany and Japan
• September 1938: Chamberlain meets Hitler to discuss the Sudeten Crisis; the Munich Conference
• October 1938 


  German troops invade and occupy the Sudetenland
• August 1939 


  Nazi-Soviet Pact is signed
• September 1939: Hitler invades Poland; Britain and France declare war on Germany
• January 1920 


  First meeting of the League of Nations
• August 1920 


  Treaty of Sevres signed with Turkey
• March 1921: The League divides Upper Silesia between Germany and Poland
• August 1922 


  Washington Naval Agreement
• October 1922: Benito Mussolini becomes dictator in Italy after his march on Rome
• 1922 - 1923 


  Economic collapse in Austria and Hungary
• July 1923: Treaty of Lausanne overturns the Treaty of Sevres
• 1926 


  Germany joins League of Nations
• August 1928 


  Kellogg-Briand Pact
• September 1934 


  The USSR joins the League of Nations
• December 1935: The Hoare Laval Pact is leaked to the press
• July 1936 


  Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War
• July 1937 


  Japan launch a full-scale invasion on China
• May 1939: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel