Is a complete timeline of the developments in international relations in the 1930s. Analyses the successes and failures of the League of Nations in the 1930s. Made for the CIE/CAIE A level History (9489) syllabus (international option) but can be used for other exam boards. Covers the following top...
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League of Nations and International Relations in the 1930s
1885: Spain is governed under the constitutional monarchy of King Alfonso XIII
Jan 1918: Fourteen Points Speech
1921: Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party
1923: Munich Putsch
1923: Hitler writes ‘Mein Kampf’ whilst in prison
1923: Army officers, under the leadership of Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, carried out a bloodless
coup which led to Rivera establishing himself as dictator
1925: Locarno Conference – established the borders of European countries and stated that these
could only be altered by military action which should be avoided at all costs
1926: Germany becomes member of the LoN
Oct 1929: Wall Street Crash/ Start of the Great Depression
Aug 1931: King Alfonso abdicates, and the New Republic of Spain is created
Sept 1931: Against the government’s wishes, the Japanese Army mobilises itself and takes over
Manchuria in China.
1932: abandonment of Bulgarian reparations
1932: Establishment of the British Union of Fascists
1932: Britain abandons the ‘Ten Year Rule’ and starts rearming. British spending was only £102
million on defence in 1932, compared to £760 million in 1919 – 1920.
1932: Japan fully invade Manchuria and rename it Manchukuo
1932: The Nazis have 37% of votes and seats at the Reichstag
Feb 1932: Opening of the Disarmament conference. British proposal to place strict limits on the
production of tanks, bomber aircraft, submarines, poison gas and chemical weapons was rejected.
Germany wanted to be treated equally, however France still feared her and were not prepared to
reduce forces without guarantees of safety
Oct 2nd, 1932: Publishing of the Lytton Report which detailed the Manchurian crisis and analysed the
validity of Japanese claims (took over 6 weeks)
Jan 30th, 1933: Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
March 1933: Japan leaves the League and cancels the limitations made at the Washington Naval
Conference
May 1933: Secret formation of the Luftwaffe
Oct 1933: Germany leaves the Disarmament Conference and the LoN
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