International Relations 1919-2001 (OCR GCSE History)
Updated 20 Mar 2019
Timeline covering key dates for OCR GCSE paper 1 section A
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Treaty of St Germain (Austria)
September 1919Treaty of Neuilly (Bulgaria)
November 1919Treaty of Trianon (Hungary)
June 1920Treaty of Sèvres (Turkey)
August 1920US Congress refuses to let USA join the League of Nations
March 1920Aarland Islands dispute (Finland and Sweden)
1921Upper Silesian settlement (Germany and Poland)
March 1921Reparations payment set at £6.6 billion
1921Rapallo Treaty (USSR and Germany)
April 1922Treaty of Versailles
28th June 1919Corfu crisis
August - September 1923Dawes Plan
August 1924Locarno treaties
December 1925Prevention of war between Greece and Bulgaria
October 1925Germany joins League of Nations
September 1926League of Nations established
January 1920Kellogg-Briand Pact
August 1928Young Plan
June 1929Wall Street Crash and the start of the depression
October 1929Japan invades Manchuria
September 1931Finatial restructuring of Austria
1922Finantial reconstruction of Hungary
1923Rights of German settlers in Poland protected
1923Bernito Musolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy
October 1922Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
January 1933Disarmament Conference
February 1932Lytton Report completed
September 1932Japan announces that they plan to invade more
of China.
February 1933Lytton report approved in League of Nations by
42 votes 1 (only Japan votes against it).
24th February 1933Japan leaves league of Nations
March 1933Hitler withdraws Germany from the League of Nations
October 1933USSR joins the League of Nations
September 1934Hitler publicly announces his rearmament program
March 1935Italy invades Abyssinia
October 1935British and French prime ministers meet with
Mussolini and agree Stresa Pact
April 1935Mussolini takes advantage of dispute over
ownership of land around Wal-Wal oasis to
prepare to invade Abyssinia
December 1934Hoare-Laval Pact
December 1935Hitler marches troops into Rhineland
7th March 1936Italy takes control of all of Abyssinia
May 1936Mussolini and Hitler sign the Rome-Berlin Axis
November 1936Anti-Comintern pact
November 1936Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance
May 1935Spanish Civil War Begins
1936Axis alliance
November 1937Saar Plebicite: 90% of voters choose to join Germany
January 1935German planes bomb Spanish town of Guernica
26th April 1937Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister
May 1937Hitler Marches troops into Austria. 99.75% of
voters agree to Anschluss in plebiscite.
March 1938Hitler expresses support for Sudeten Germans
and threatens to invade is Czechoslovakia did not
hand over the region to Germany.
May 1938Chamberlain meets with Hitler. Hitler says he
only wanted part of the Sudetenland and only if a
vote showed the population agreed with this.
15th September 1938Hitler increases his demands and wants all of
Sudetenland. Chamberlain tells Hitler he is being
unreasonable.
22nd September 1938Decision is made to give Hitler the Sudetenland,
becoming known as the Munich Agreement.
29th September 1938Hitler moves forces into Sudetenland
October 1938German troops invade rest of Czechoslovakia
March 1939Nazi-Soviet Pact
August 1939Hitler invades Poland
1st September 1939Britain and France declare war on Germany
2nd September 1939Periods
World War 1 (1914-1918)Paris Peace conference (1919-1920)Vilna Dispute (Poland and Lithuania) 1920-1929World War Two (1939-1945)
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