CHRONOLOGY CHRONOLOGY
IMPORTANT DATES IMPORTANT EVENTS |
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November 11, 1918 |
*** WORLD WAR I ENDS *** |
1918 |
Woodrow Wilson proclaims his famous "Fouteen Points Speech". |
January, 1919 |
The Paris Peace Conference: Wilson of the United States, Lloyd George of Britain, Clemenceau of France, and Orlando of Italy create the Treaty of Versailles, and established a peace settlement to the war. |
1920 |
The creation of new states of Austria, Poland, Czecholslovakia, and Yougoslavia adopt Paliamentary systems while Romania and Bulgaira create new parlimanetalry constitutions. |
1921 |
Germany makes its first war reparations payment to France in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles. |
1922 |
Germany is faced with a rising inflation, lack of revenues to lower taxes, and domestic problems and declares that it is unable to pay. |
1923 |
Mussolini and the Fascists come to power in Italy. |
October, 1923 |
Adolf Hitlr, along with his fellow NAZI's attempted to seize power in Munich. |
1924 |
Britain, France, Italy, and Germany established full diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia. |
August, 1924 |
The Dawes Plan is introduced by an international commission, in which it reduces reparations and stablizes German payments on the basis of it s abilityto pay. |
1926 |
Poland establishes an authoritarian regimae after a military dictatorship is created. |
March, 1926 |
Germany joins the League of Nations. |
1928 |
Kellog-Briand Pact was signed by sixtry-three nations which pledged to "renounce war as an instrument of national policy". |
October, 1929 |
International financial crisis results after the collapse of the American stock market and panic leades American investors to pull their funds from Germany and other European markets which weakens their banks. |
1931 |
Stalin gains control of Russia and begins a five-year plan to shift Russia industrially. |
January 30, 1933 |
Hitler forms a new government and names himslf chancellor because the president of the Weimar Republic instructed him to do so -- at the same time he pulls Germany out of the League of Nations. |
1935 |
In an attempt to violate the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler begins to rebuild the German army. |
1938 |
Hitler constructed the Anschluss, which was the forced union of Germany and Austria, which once again violates the Treaty of Versailles. |
