World Post WWI

By Dev026

  • Creation of the League of Nations

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    - Woodrow Wilson delivered his 14 Points to Congress. The last point was the creation of "a general assembly of nations" to maintain peace throughout the world while fostering international relations.
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  • Armistice of 11 November 1918

    Armistice of 11 November 1918
    Armistice
    -Ended the fighting on the Western Front of WWI. Went into effect on the "eleventh of hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month"

  • Treaty of Versailles Signed

    Treaty of Versailles Signed
    Treaty of Versailles Signed
    - Officially ended WWI
    - Created between January and June 1919 in Paris, France
    - Writted by Allied powers, but included little German participation
    - Largely punished Germany for the war -- Germany accepted the Treaty under protest
    - U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Treaty and the U.S. government took no responsibility for most of its provisions

  • Weimar Republic estalished

    Weimar Republic
    - The government set up in Germany after WWI which was an attempt at a Republic Government.

  • Mussolini Becomes Prime Minister

    Mussolini Rises to Power- Mussolini founded the Fascist movement in 1919, yet he bacme Prime Minister in 1922
    - He would then seize dictoral power in 1925
    - Wanted to rule Italy as a modern Cesear and recreate Roman Empire

  • Dawes Plan signed

    The Dawes Plan
    - economic plan to help Weimar Germany out of hyperinflation, created by an American banker, Dawes, America would lend Germany a large loan to help their economy

  • Mussolini seizes dictoral power

    Mussolini gains power

  • "Black Tuesday"

    Black Tuesday- panicked sellers traded nearly 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange, which led to it crashing

  • Hitler named Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler named ChancellorHitler named as Chancellor of Germany, marked turning point for the German people and the world.
    - He began immediately, ordering a rapid expansion of the state police, the Gestapo, and putting Hermann Goering in charge of a new security force, composed entirely of Nazis and dedicated to stamping out whatever opposition to his party might arise. From that moment on, Nazi Germany was off and running

  • The Munich Conference

    The Munich Conference
    - Hitler's meeting with Prime Minister Chamberlain and other European powers. Because of the policy of appeasement, the Sudetenland was annexed to Germany.