Events
1919
Treaty of Versailles
is signed1920s
Roaring Twenties
The Jazz Age1921
Bolshevicks
(communists)
win Russian civil war1923
Munich Putsch1922
Mousolini (fascists)
take power in Italy1928
Great Depression begins1930
The dole is introduced in
Australia1931
Japan invades Manchuria1932
Unemployment peaks1933
Hitler gains power.
Japan withdraws from the League of Nations1934
President Hindenburg dies.
Hitler declares himself Fuhrer1935
Rearmament & conscription
in Germany.
Italy invades Abyssinia.
Nuremberg Laws remove
basic rights from Jews1936
Germany re-enters the Rhineland.
Germany & Italy support Franco
(Spanish Civil War) and become allies
Japan and Germany become allies.
Stalin purges enemies in Communist Party (USSR)1937
Japan invades ChinaMarch 1938
Germany annexes Austria.
At the Munich Conference
Germany gains
Sudetenland and CzechoslovakiaMarch 1939
Germany invades and
takes Czechoslovakia1 Sep 1939
Germany invades Poland3 Sep 1939
Britain declares war
on Germany. Australia
forms 2nd AIFApril-May 1940
Germany overruns
Western EuropeJuly 1940
Battle of Britain
prevents German invasionNovember 1940
British and Australian forces
inflict defeats in North AfricaJune 1941
Germany invades
Yugoslavia, Greece
and the USSR. AIF
victory of Vichy French7 December 1941
Japan enters the war.
Attacks Pearl Harbor.
US enters the war20 Jan 1942
"Final Solution to
the European Jewish
Question" (Holocaust)15 Feb 1942
Singapore falls
to Japanese19 Feb 1942
Darwin bombedApril 1942
Japanese conquer most of South-East
AsiaMay-June 1942
Battles of the
Coral Sea
and Midway
set back Japan1 June 1942 Japanese
submarines raid Sydney HarbourOctober 1942
German forces defeated by
British, Aust. & Commonwealth forces
at AlameinJuly 1943
Germans defeated
at Stalingrad and battle
of Kursk. Mussolini overthrownMarch 1944
British and Indian forces drive Japanese
back in Burma. US defeats Japanese
on Pacific islands6 June 1944
D Day landings in France8 May 1945
Germany surrenders6 & 9 August 1945
Atomic bombs
dropped on
Hiroshima
and Nagasaki8 August 1945
USSR enters war
against Japan15 Sep 1945
Japan formally surrendersApril - June 1945
The United
Nations
is formedPeriods
Australians defeat forces in New Guinea
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