This timeline of events preceding World War II covers the events of the interwar period (1918–1939) after World War I that affected or led to World War II. 1910s: 191019181919 1920s: 192019211922 1923192419251926 192719281929 1930s: 193019311932 1933193419351936 193719381939 Leaders of major participating countries 1910 August 22–29 Japan annexes Korea, paving the way for the invasion of Manchuria in 1931. 1918 October 28–31 The Aster Revolution occurs establishing the First Hungarian Republic. October 29 Start of the German Revolution. November 11 The Armistice with Germany marks the end of World War I. German troops evacuate occupied territories and Allied troops subsequently move in and occupy the German Rhineland. November 13 The Hungarian–Romanian War begins. December 27 Start of the Greater Poland Uprising against German rule. 1919 January 4–15 The Spartacist uprising takes place and is crushed by the German government. January 18 Opening of the Paris Peace Conference to negotiate peace treaties between the belligerents of World War I. January 31 Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, the British Army is called in by the city authorities to quell a riot during a strike for a 40 hour work week. February The Polish–Soviet War begins with border clashes between the two states. March 2 Foundation of the Third International, or Comintern in Moscow. Comintern's stated aim is to create a global Soviet republic. March 12 The Austrian Constituent National Assembly demands Austria's integration to Germany. March 21 Proclamation of the communist Hungarian Soviet Republic. May 15 The Turkish War of Independence begins as Greek troops land in Smyrna. June 21 A majority of the German fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow in Scotland. The ships had been interned there under the terms of the 1918 Armistice while negotiations were occurring over ship's fates. The Germans feared that either the British would seize the ships or Germany would reject the Versailles Treaty and resume the war effort altogether with the ships likely being used against Germany in this case. June 28 Germany and the Allied powers sign the Treaty of Versailles after six months of negotiations. The German armed forces are limited in size to 100,000 personnel and Germany is ordered to pay large reparations for war damages. The United States signed the treaty but did not ratify it, later making a separate peace treaty with Germany. July An unknown corporal named Adolf Hitler infiltrates the German Workers' Party (the