conflict and tension key dates

1919: January - paris peace conference

June - Treaty of Versaille signed

1920: January - First league of nations meeting

1922: October - Mussolini becomes dictator in Italy

1923: August - Corfu crisis

1926: Germany joins league of nations

1928: August - Kellogg - Briand pact

1929: October- Wallstreet crash leads to global depression

1930: economic crash in Austria and Hungary

1931: September - Mukden incident, Japan invades Manchuria

1933: January - Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

October - Hitler leaves disarmament conference

1934: July - Nazi Party in Austria assassinate Dollfuss

September - USSR joins the league of nations

1935: January - Saar Plebiscite

March - introduces conscription and remilitarisation of Rhineland

June - Anglo - German naval agreement

October - Mussolini invades Abyssinia (Abyssinian crisis)

December - Hoare Laval Pact leaked to press

1936: July - Spanish civil war

October - Rome-Berlin axis

November - Italy joins anti - comitern pact

1937: July - Japanese invasion of China

1938: March - Anshluss

September - Munich conference

October - German troops invade Sudetenland

1939: May - German and Italy sign pact

August - Nazi-Soviet Pact

September - Hitler invades Poland. Britain and france declare war.