BETWEEN THE WARS: THE HEADLINES

ARMISTICE ENDS THE GREAT WAR November 1918

VERSAILLES TREATY BLAMES GERMANY AND ITS ALLIES FOR THE WAR June 1919

LEAGUE OF NATIONS CONVENES FOR THE FIRST TIME1920

U.S. REFUSES TO RATIFY WWI TREATIES; WILL NOT JOIN LEAGUE 1920

U.S. SETS EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION QUOTAS FOR THE FIRST TIME1921

BOLSHEVIKS WIN CIVIL WAR IN RUSSIA 1921

LENIN INTRODUCES N.E.P. TO HELP ECONOMY IN RUSSIA1921

FASCISTS MARCH ON ROME; MUSSOLINI NAMED PRIME MINISTER OF ITALY1922

WASHINGTON CONFERENCE ISSUES TREATIES LIMITING NAVAL ARMAMENTS, GUARANTEEING SOVEREIGNTY

FRANCE OCCUPIES THE RUHR FOLLOWING GERMAN ECONOMIC COLLAPSE 1923

HITLER, NAZIS FAIL IN “BEER HALL PUTSCH” October 1923

LENIN DIES IN USSR: POWER STRUGGLE INEVITABLE 1924

DAWES PLAN ESTABLISHES PLAN TO AID GERMAN ECONOMY1924

LOCARNO PACT EASES TENSIONS IN WESTERN EUROPE1925

NAZI LEADER HITLER RELEASED FROM PRISON, PUBLISHES MEIN KAMPF1925

GERMANY ADMITTED TO LEAGUE OF NATIONS 1926

TROTSKY EXPELLED FROM COMMUNIST PARTY BY STALIN; FLEES U.S.S.R. 1926

JOSEF STALIN BECOMES DICTATOR OF THE SOVIET UNION 1927

NATIONS “OUTLAW WAR” IN KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT1928

STALIN ANNOUNCES FIRST FIVE YEAR PLAN FOR SOVIET UNION 1928

MILLION$ LO$T AS NEW YORK $TOCK MARKET CRA$HE$1929

MILITARISTS TAKE CONTROL OF JAPANESE GOVERNMENT1930

SPAIN ENDS MONARCHY; ESTABLISHES REPUBLIC1931

JAPAN SEIZES CHINESE PROVINCE OF MANCHURIA1931

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT ELECTED PRESIDENT 1932

HITLER NAMED GERMAN CHANCELLOR 1933

REICHSTAG BURNS IN BERLIN; COMMUNISTS BLAMED1933

HITLER MADE DICTATOR OF GERMANY BY ENABLING ACT 1933

HINDENBURG DIES IN GERMANY REMOVING LAST BLOCK TO HITLER’S DICTATORSHIP 1934

NUREMBERG LAWS BEGIN GERMAN DISCRIMINATION AGAINST JEWS1935

ITALY INVADES ETHIOPIA; HAILE SELASSIE APPEALS FOR LEAGUE HELP1935

GERMANY REMILITARIZES RHINELAND 1936

ITALY ANNEXES ETHIOPIA; MUSSOLINI LOOKS TO NEW ITALIAN EMPIRE IN AFRICA 1936

CIVIL WAR IN SPAIN: FRANCO LEADS FASCISTS AGAINST THE REPUBLIC 1936

GERMANY, ITALY, AND JAPAN SIGN ANTI-COMMINTERN AGREEMENT October 1936

JAPAN LAUNCHES ALL-OUT WAR ON CHINA1937

GERMANY DECLARES ANSCHLUSS WITH AUSTRIA March 1938

MUNICH ACCORDS GIVE CZECH SUDETENLAND TO GERMANY September 1938

GERMANY BREAKS MUNICH ACCORDS: ANNEXES CZECHOSLOVAKIA March 1939

BRITAIN AND FRANCE SIGN TREATY TO PROTECT POLAND April 1939

FASCISTS WIN SPANISH CIVIL WAR; FRANCO BECOMES DICTATOR July 1939

GERMANY AND SOVIET UNION SIGN NON- AGGRESSION PACT August 1939

GERMANY INVADES POLAND: WAR IN EUROPE! September 1, 1939

WORLD WAR II September August 1945

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