Conflict & Tension: The Inter-War Years

Cards (33)

  • 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