History Key Dates

Question 1

28th June 1919

Answer 1

Treat of Versailles is signed

Question 2

1920

Answer 2

The USA votes to stay out of the league. This was significant as it meant the country with the strongest economy and military was not part of the league.

The league fails in vilna.

Question 3

1921

Answer 3

Reparations figure for Germany set at 6.6 billion pounds.

The league succeeds in upper Silesia and the Aaland island.

Question 4

1923

Answer 4

League failure in corfu, between Italy and Greece. This was significant as it showed powerful countries like Italy could get around the league.

Question 5

1925

Answer 5

League succeeds in Bulgaria.

Locarno treaties are signed, securing the French-German border.

Question 6

1926

Answer 6

Germany joins the league of nation’s.

Question 7

1928

Answer 7

The Kellogg Briand pact. Over 60 countries met and agreed never to use war as a solution to disputes.

Question 8

October 1929

Answer 8

Wall Street crash in America.

Question 9

1930-1932

Answer 9

As a result of the Wall Street crash the Great Depression starts.

Question 10

September 1931

Answer 10

Start of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria

Question 11

February 1932

Answer 11

Beginning of the disarmament conference.

Question 12

October 1932

Answer 12

The league produces the Lytton report, over a year after the invasion, condemning Japan for its actions.

Question 13

January 1933

Answer 13

Hitler is appointed chancellor and starts rearming Germany in secret.

Question 14

February 1933

Answer 14

Japan ignores the Lytton report and continues it’s invasion, when further condemned, Japan promptly wales out of the league, again showing the league can be undermined by larger powers.

Question 15

October 1933

Answer 15

Hitler walks out of the disarmament conference and also has Germany leave the League of Nations.

Question 16

December 1934

Answer 16

Skirmish at Wal Wal oasis in Abyssinia, Mussolini declares intentions to invade.

Question 17

January 1935

Answer 17

The Saar plebiscite, the Saar is returned to Germany, the first sign of appeasement shown by the larger powers for hitler.

Question 18

1935

Answer 18

Stresa pact signed between Britain and Italy, both countries agreeing to stand against hitler, though no mention of Abyssinia ever came up.

Freedom to rearm rally, the rearmament of Germany is made public.

Britain signs Anglo German naval agreement with Germany allowing Germany to increase its navy to 35% the size of the British navy.

Question 19

October 1935

Answer 19

Mussolini begins invasion of Abyssinia.

Question 20

December 1935

Answer 20

Hoare larval pact is signed, negotiated by the British foreign minister Hoare and the French prime minister Laval, which promised Italy two thirds of Abyssinia.

This was significant as it was done without consultation of the league. It also meant the international community lost faith in the league, as its two most powerful nations had done nothing about Italy’s aggression.

Question 21

7th march 1936

Answer 21

Germanys remilitarisation of the Rhineland.

Question 22

May 1936

Answer 22

Italy invasion of Abyssinia is completed as Italy takes the capital city Addis Abba.

Question 23

October 1936

Answer 23

Rome Berlin axis is agreed. The agreement involves a political and military alliance between the two fascist countries, and to oppose Stalin and the communist regime. Japan would later join to form the axis powers.

Question 24

12th march

Answer 24

Anschluss with Austria, the union if Germany and Austria was voted on and agreed upon by an overwhelming majority of 97.5%. This union was forbidden under the treat of Versailles.

Question 25

29th to 30th September 1938

Answer 25

Munich agreement between chamberlain and hitler, the two countries promise not to go to war. Chamberlain called the agreement peace in out time. Some, including Churchill opposed this agreement.

Question 26

1st October 1938

Answer 26

Hitler and his army are able to walk into the Sudetenland, and under the Munich agreement, suffered no casualties. This would promptly lead to a further invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Question 27

15th march 1939

Answer 27

Germany invades Czechoslovakia. Britain sends Germany an ultimatum, ordering them to retreat. Germany is not phased and continues the invasion.

Question 28

23rd august 1939

Answer 28

The nazi soviet pact is signed between Germany and Russia, agreeing not to go to war and to split Poland between the two countries.

Question 29

1st September 1939

Answer 29

Germany invasion of Poland begins, start of World War Two.

Question 30

1934

Answer 30

Nazis became part of the Austria cabinet after Dolfuss is killed. Schusnigg, the new chancellor, gave them important seats in return fir their support.

Question 31

9th march 1938

Answer 31

Schuschnigg announces referendum for the union between Austria and Germany.

Question 32

10th march 1938

Answer 32

Hitler prepares his troops to invade Austria.

Question 33

11th march 1938

Answer 33

Schuschnigg announces his resignation. The following day Germany walks into Austria.

Question 34

The anti Comintern pact 1936-1937

Answer 34

An agreement signed in 1936 between Germany and Japan, agreeing to limit communist influence. In 1937 Italy also signed. This pact went directly against the newly formed Soviet Union. This was part of the formation of the axis powers.

Question 35

May 1938

Answer 35

Hitler makes it clear that if he is not given the Sudetenland then he will fight Czechoslovakia is necessary. This out Europe on full war alert as britain France and the USSR all agreed to support the Czechs, and the leader Benes was certainly prepared to fight Germany. The Czechs had a modern army, and would be no walkover for hitler.

Question 36

15th September 1938

Answer 36

The situation if the Sudetenland was reaching crisis point. Chamberlain meets with hitler, who reduces his demands, only asking for a plebesite for the people in the Sudetenland to see what they desired. Chamberlain thought this was reasonable.

Question 37

19th September 1938

Answer 37

Britain and France tell the Czechs their plan to give parts of the Sudetenland to Germany, however a few days later hitler increases his demands, demanding the whole of the Sudetenland. He claimed the Germans were mistreated, and he intended to rescue them by the 1st of October.