Conflict and tension, 1918-1939
Year
Month
What happened?
1918
11 November
Armistice is signed, ending WW1
1919
June
Treaty of Versailles is signed
1921
Poland invades Vilna; the Aaland Islands crisis
1923
August
Corfu crisis
1925
October
Greek-Bulgarian dispute
Oct-Dec
Locarno Treaties
1929
October
Wall Street Crash leads to global recession
1931
September
Mukden Incident; the Japanese army invades Manchuria
1933
January
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
October
Hitler leaves the League of Nations’ Disarmament
Conference
1934
July
The Nazi Party in Austria assassinates the Austrian
Chancellor Dollfuss
1935
January
The Saar Plebiscite
March
Hitler announces that he has built the Luftwaffe and that
conscription will be introduced to build up the German
army
June
Anglo-German Naval Treaty
October
Mussolini invades Abyssinia
March
Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
October
Rome-Berlin Axis is agreed
November
Anti-Comintern Pact between Germany and Japan is
agreed
March
Hitler invades Austria to achieve Anschluss
September
Chamberlain meets Hitler to discuss the Sudeten crisis
October
German troops invade and occupy the Sudetenland
August
Nazi-Soviet Pact is signed
September
Hitler invades Poland; Britain and France declare war on
Germany
1936
1938
1939