C2 - Interwar period - Dates

Rise of totalitarianism and fragilisation of democracies during the inter war period

1931

Japanese invasion of Manchuria - Start of WW2 from non-Eurocentric perspective

1933

Hitler becomes chancellor, appointed by president Hindenburg

1934

Hitler becomes Fuhrer

1936

German re-occupation of the Rhineland

1938

Invasion of Sudetenland following Treaty of Munich

1924

Joseph Stalin as leader of Russia

1922

Benito Mussolini as leader of Italy following March on Rome

1923

Hyperinflation in Germany

September 1935

Nuremberg laws

1939

Invasion of Poland

1938

German annexation of Austria

9-10 November 1938

Kristallnacht

1923

Failed Munich coup led by Hitler