Conflict Tension Bunting

1918 11th November

The Armistice is signed, ending the First World

war

1919 January

Paris Peace Conference to set

after war terms for the defeated central

powers

1919 June

Treaty of Versailles signed: Germany huge penalties

1919

The Polish- Soviet War

begins

1920 January

First meeting of the newly

formed League of Nations.

1920 August

The Treaty of Sevres signed with Turkey

(Liquidates the Ottoman Empire)

pire)

1921

Poland invades

Vilna

1921

The LON helps to solve the

Aaland Island Crisis

1921 March

The LON divides Upper Silesia between

Germany and Poland

1922 August

The Washington Naval Agreement

(Limited countries abilities in creating an arms race.)

1922 October

Benito Mussolini becomes dictator in Italy after his March on Rome

1922-1923

Economic Collapse in Austria- Hungary

1923 July

The Treaty of Lausanne overturns Treaty of

Sevres

1923 August

The Corfu Crisis (Between Greece and

Italy)

1925 October

The Greek- Bulgarian Dispute

1925 October-December

The Locarno Treaties

(Outlined territory in Europe)

1926

Germany joins the League of

Nations

1928 August

The Kellogg- Briand Pact

(promise to resolve disputes without war)

1929 October

The Wall Street Crash leads to

Global Depression

1931 September

The Mukden Incident-

(Japan invades Manchuria)

1933 January

Hitler becomes Chancellor of

Germany

1933 October

Hitler LEAVES The Disarmament

Conference

1934 July

The Nazi party in Austria assassinate

the Austrian Chancellor, Dollfuss

1934 September

The USSR joins the League of

Nations

1935 January

The Saar Plebiscite (Saar

re-joins Germany)

1935 March

Hitler displays his ‘Luftwaffe’ and

announces Conscription in

order to build the German Army

1935 June

The Anglo- German Naval Treaty

1935 October

Mussolini Invades

Abyssinia

1935 December

The Hoare Laval Pact is leaked to the press

(aimed to end Italo-Ethiopian War.)

1936 March

Remilitarisation of the Rhineland

(Germany)

1936 July

Outbreak of the Spanish

Civil War

1936 October

The Rome-Berlin Axis is Agreed

1936 November

Italy join the ‘Anti-Comintern Pact’ with Germany and Japan

1937 July

Japan launch full scale invasion on

China

1938 March

Hitler invades Austria to achieve ‘Anschluss’

(Unification)

1938 September

The Munich Conference (Chamberlin meets

Hitler to discuss the Sudeten Crisis)

1938 October

German troops invade and occupy

Sudetenland

1939 May

The Pact of Steel (Germany & Italy military alliance)

1939 August

The Nazi Soviet Pact

1939 September

Hitler invades Poland- Britain and France

declare war on Germany