20th Century

By lupepito

  • Italy became a country

  • Franco-Prussian War

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    20 th Century

  • Germany became a country

  • Dual Alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary

  • Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy

  • France and Russia became allies

  • Tha National Union of Women's sufrage was set up in Britain (suffragists)

  • Entente Cordiale between France and Britain

  • War between Russia and Japan

  • Argentina: End of Julio Argentino Roca's presidency

  • Argentina: Manuel Quintana's presidency

  • First Duma in Russia with free elections (soon dissmised by the Tsar)

  • Beggining of Liberal Reforms in Britain

  • Argentina: Jose Figueroa Alcorta's presidency

  • Triple Entente between France, Britain and Russia

  • The Women's Social and Political Union was set up in Britain (suffragettes)

  • Austria-Hungary took over Bosnia

  • Argentina: Roque Saenz Peña's presidency

  • The Ottomans were drove out of the Balkans

  • Argentina: Saenz Peña Law

  • Serbia was enlarged

  • Germany invaded Belgium

  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo

  • Austria declared war on Serbia

  • Russia, supporting Serbia, began to movilise

  • Germany declared war on Russia

  • Germany declared war on France

  • Britain declared war on the Central Powers

  • Battle of Marne (both sides took up trench positions)

  • The Luisitania was sunk by a German U-boat

  • Italy declare war on Austria-Hungary

  • Battle of Jutland (naval battle between Britain and Germany)

  • Rasputin was murdered in Russia

  • Argentina: Irigoyen was elected president

  • Russian Revolution

  • The Tsar abdicated and the Duma formed a provisional government lead by Kerensky

  • The Bolsheviks seized power in the October Revolution

  • USA entered the war on the Allied side

  • Russia made peace with Germany

  • In Britain a restrictive number of women gained the right to vote for the first time

  • Civil war in Russia

  • The Germans asked for an armistice and the First World War came to an end

  • Argentina: a student movement started at the University of Cordoba, whixh eventually lead to the university Reform

  • The Treaty of Versailles

  • The USA "Prohibition" (alcohol was forbidden)

  • Argentina: The Tragic Week

  • War between Greece and Turkey

  • Hitler launched the NAZI Party

  • Elections USA: Warren Harding became president

  • End of the Russian Civil war and Russian famine

  • Lenin's death. A struggle for power between Stalin and Trotsky began

  • Argentina: Marcelo T. de Alvear was elected president

  • The French sent troops into Germany's industrial area

  • Hitler announced he was taking over the government and was arrested

  • USA: president Harding died suddenly and Calvin Coolidge became president

  • Corfu Incident ( an Italian General was shot in Greece-Mussolini attacked the Greek island)

  • The Locarno pact was signed

  • Germany joined the League of Nations

  • General strike from all the major industries in Britain

  • Kellogg Pact (between 65 countries)

  • In Britain, women gained the right to vote on the same basis as men

  • In Russia, Stalin had gained complete control of the country and launched the Five Years Plan

  • USA: Herverd Hoovert became president

  • Argentina: Irigoyen was re-elected

  • The Wall Street Crash

  • The NAZIs gained a lot of votes

  • Argentina: A military coup led by Uriburu overthrew Irigoyen's government and began a period known as The Infamous Decade

  • Japanese army invaded Manchuria (China)

  • USA: Franklin D. Roosvelt won the elections

  • New Deal Plan was started

  • USA: The "Prohibition" was ended

  • Argentina: Agustin P. Justo won the elections, which are said to have been heavily fraudulent

  • Hitler became dictator of Germany

  • Japan left the league

  • Hitler withdrew Germany from the league

  • The NAZI party became the only political legal party

  • Russia became a member of the League of Nations

  • Italy invaded Ethiopia

  • Hitler invaded Austria

  • Unemployment was reduced by expanding the German army, navy and air force

  • Hitler passed the Nuremberg Laws

  • Naval agreement between Germany and Britain

  • USA: Roosvelt was re-elected

  • Rome-Berlin Axis

  • Re-occupation of the Rhine Land

  • The Spanish Civil War broke out

  • Argentina: Roberto Ortiz was elected president

  • Italy left the league

  • Mussolini joined the Anti-Comintern Pact

  • The NAZIs ordered an attack on Jews and their property

  • Hitler ordered the anexation of Austria

  • The Gestapo began to round up Jews and sent them to concentration camp

  • Hitler's army marched into Czechoslovakia

  • The Nazi-Soviet Pact

  • Hitler invaded Poland- Outbreak of the Second Worls War

  • Fall of Western Europe

  • Winston Churchill became the British Prime Minister

  • Germans launched a Blitzkrieg attack against the Low Countries and France

  • Mossolini declared war on Britain

  • German bombing to British cities started

  • Rationing was introduced in Britain

  • Jews were killed in thousands in specially-built gas chambers

  • USA: Roosvelt led the USA into Second World War

  • Hitler invaded Russia (Operation Barbarossa)

  • The Japanese attacked the American base al Pearl Harbor - Roosevelt declared war on Germany and Japan

  • Roosevelt organised the 'Lend-Lease' scheme (Britain could borrow military equipment)

  • Argentina: Ramon Castillo took power

  • Allied bombing of Germany started

  • Operation Torch (Churchill and Roosevelt attacked North Africa)

  • Battle of the Coral Sea

  • Battle of Midway

  • Argentina: Arturo Rawson and Pedro Pablo Ramirez took power by force

  • The Teheran Conference (Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchil)

  • Argentina: Argentia made a late declaration of war on Germany

  • General de Gaulle became the new President of France

  • Bomb Plot (attempt to assassinate Hitler)

  • The Allies entered Rome and Florence

  • The Japanese invade India

  • Battle of Leyte Gulfe

  • The United Nations Organisation was set up

  • President Roosevelt died

  • The Yalta Conference (Allied leaders)

  • Atomic bomb testing at Los Alamos in the Nevada desert

  • Stalin, Churchill and Truman gathered at the Potsdam Conference to decide how to administer the defeated Nazi Germany

  • The bomber 'Enola Gay' drops an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima

  • The USSR declares war on Japan

  • Second atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki

  • The war in Europe ended

  • Argentina: General Juan Peron became president

  • Truman sets up the National Security Council (NSC)

  • Truman introduces The Truman Doctrine

  • Beginning of the Cold War

  • Truman's Secretary of State, General George Marshall puts forward Marshall Aid

  • Argentina: Women gained the right to vote

  • Weastern European countries form the "North Atlantic Treaty Organizarion" (NATO)

  • US president Harry S. Truman proposes The Fair Deal

  • Beginning of the Korean War

  • US alliance with Japan

  • Argentina: Peron was re-elected as president

  • End of the Korean War

  • Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in tbe US

  • Argentina: "Revolucion Libertadora" military coup. Aramburu was named president.

  • Montgomery bus boycott led by Martin Luther King

  • Beginning of the Vietnam War

  • Launch of the Russian satellite 'sputnik' into orbit around the earth

  • Argentina: Frondizi won the elections

  • Building of the Berlin Wall to stop people from escaping from East Germany to West Germany

  • JFK establishes the Peace Corps

  • Cuban crisis

  • Argentina: Arturo Illia won the elctions

  • Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy

  • Argentina: military coup

  • Argentina: Ongania's de facto presidency

  • Argentina: The Night of the Long Batons (La Noche de los Bastones Largos)

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King

  • Argentina: "Cordobazo"

  • Watergate scandal

  • Argentina: Campora's presidency

  • Argentina: Peron was elected president again

  • Argentina: Peron died and his wife, Isabel, took control

  • End of the Vietnam War

  • Helsinki Accords

  • Argentina: Military coup called the National Organization Process

  • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

  • Falklands (Malvinas) War

  • Argentina: Alfonsin was elected president

  • Gorbachev assumes as the Soviet Union's head of state

  • Argentina: Menem was elected president

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • End of the Cold War