20th century history

By kassh26

  • Opium Wars

  • Treaty of Nanjing

    ended opium wars

  • Matthew Perry to Japan

  • Taiping Rebellion

  • Meiji Restoration

    zaibatsu

  • Samuri Rebellion

  • Triple Alliance forms

  • Berlin conference

    divided up african counteries

  • Kaiser Wilhelm II takes place of Otto von Bismark

  • Triple Intervention

    france, russia, and germany pressured japan to give laidong peninsula back to china so they had more power in china and didnt want japan to become super powerful

  • Boxer Rebellion starts

  • Empress Cixi takes power

  • Trans-Siberian Railway

  • Russo-Japanese War

    japan attacks/defeats russia
    made tsar look bad
    japan starts becoming world power

  • Bloody Sunday

    workers marches shut down cities- workers wanted war to end
    tsar tells imperial troops to shoot them down
    makes tsar look bad
    soviets take power in st petersburg

  • Duma created

  • Triple Entente forms

    russia, france, britain

  • Bosnian Crisis

    austria annexes bosnia, bosnia is upset
    russia sees themselves as protectors of bosnia, is mad at austria
    germany backs austria
    germany and austria are close,

  • Guomindang created

  • Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand assassination

  • blank check

    germany agrees to back austria no matter what

  • Central Powers forms

    germany, austria, ottoman empire, bulgaria

  • Allies

    Britain, france, russia, japan, italy

  • Yuan Shikai is first president of the republic of china

  • Armenian Genocide

    ottoman empire kills armenians

  • Warlord Era begins

    Yuan Shikai dies

  • Petrograd Soviet

    part of dual power,
    not in real power
    modeled after soviet
    turn into bolsheviks

  • Tsar Nicholas II abdicates

    sergeit witte industrialized russia under tsar

  • Zimmerman Telegram

    brought US into the war

  • Provisional Government founded

    after fall of tsar
    part of dual government

  • October Revolution

    bolsheviks seize power
    led by lenin
    ends provisional government

  • start of russian civil war

    red army vs. white army
    red army wins

  • 14 Points

  • May Fourth Protests

  • Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles

  • Sergei Einstein makes film "Battleship Potemkin"

    supported communism

  • March on Rome/ Mussolini rises to power

  • Beer Hall Putsch

  • Locarno Treaties

  • Great Northern Expedition

  • Shanghai Massacre

  • Stalin comes to power

  • Lateran Treaties

  • Stock Market Crash

  • Manchuria Incident

  • FDR is president

  • Nazi Party Wins Election

  • Engleburt Dollfuss assassination

  • Long March

  • Abyssinian Crises

  • Hoare-Laval Pact

  • Anti Comintern Pact

  • Rome-Berlin Axis

  • Remilitarization of the Rhineland

  • Spanish Civil War starts

  • Evian Conference

  • Anschluss

  • Munich Conference

  • Kristallnacht

  • ABCD Encirclement

  • Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

  • US de Facto Embago of Oil

  • Pearl Harbor