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Treaty of Versailles signed
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Years of Crisis
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first meeting of the League of Nations takes place
-first put out to try and enforce the Treaty of Versailles along with other different peace agreements that helped to end World War 1
-wanted to try and replace secret deals and even war itself
*many different countries were involved
-the United States denied joined this league
-in the end, this plan ultimately fails because there is more war that happened in the world -
Hitler became the National Socialist Party's leader
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Vladimir Lenin died
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German Chamber of Deputies Accepts the Dawes Plan
-this plan got its name from Charles Dawes
*changes or alters German reparation payments to try and actually reduce the amount of annual payments, this also allowed Germany to take a larger loan
-used to try and help Germany settle out some money problems which then pulled other countries into it -
Wall Street stock market crashed
-New York's sidewalks had been lined with Banks and investors
-the companies had people buying stocks from them, which they used to pay off their loans
*September 1929, people thought the prices were too high and started to sell their stocks thinking prices would go down
-within a month the prices started to slop downward and a panic arose because everyone wanted to sell but nobody wanted to buy
-around 16 million stocks had been sold to people, this is what made the stock market crash -
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The Great Depression
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Spanish Monarchy is overthrown and a Republic put into place
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Chancellor of Germany is set on Hitler
-this event was Hitler's first huge step in his very well known dictatorship over Germany
-at this point he did not have complete and total power over Germany, that would come at a later time in history
*not everyone was happy about the election results of Hitler becoming chancellor and some decided to write him letters expressing their thoughts towards the scenario -
start of the Spanish Civil war
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Guernica bombed by Spanish Nationalist
-as the people of Guernica tried to get away from the attack, they were being gunned down
-in the attack about 1,500 people died and around 800 had been wounded by the bombing
*the military targets for the town however stayed
-this town was a communications center -
The Munich Pact gets signed
-this pact is what had given Germany the ability to extend their land into Czechoslovakia
-Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier signed were the people to sign the pact
-Adolf Hitler was the negotiator for Germany's part of this agreement idea
*this was signed in an attempt to avoid war as much as they could so they would not have to worry about war between them -
German invasion of Poland
