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Woodrow Wilson in office
President Wilson gets into office after being elected in1912 -
World War I starts
tensions in europe explode into war after Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated -
End of WWI
Germany goes under cease fire but technically WWI does not end for another 7 months -
Treaty of Versailles
Germany signs the Treaty of Versailles official ending WWI -
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy
Mussolini becoming Prime Minister started the fascist trend -
President Harding dies
Warren G. Harding died while in office and was succeded by Coolidge -
Fascists win elections
Fascists win elections with 2/3 of the majority -
Mussolini becomes Dictator
Benito Mussolini declares dictatorail power over Italy -
Assassination attempt failed
Assassination attempt against Mussolini fails -
Failed bomb attack
A bomb attack against Benito Mussolini failed to kill Mussolini but successful in killing 17 bystanders -
Black Tuesday
The world wide stock market crash -
Adolf Hitler comes into power
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of germany -
Hitler becomes Furher of Germany
Adolf Hitler becomes Furher of Germany as well as Chancellor -
German Rearmament
Adolf Hitler declares German rearmament which violated the Versailles Treaty -
Treaty of Versailles is violated again
Nazi Germany reoccupies Rhineland against the Treaty of Versailles -
Negotiations over Sutenland
Neville Chamberlain goes to Berchtesgaden to negotiate with Hitler over Sutenland -
World War II began
Germany invaded Poland which went against the Versailles Treaty -
Axis Powers begin to Form
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Brenner Pass to agree to an alliance against France and the United Kingdom -
pearl harbor is bombed
Japanese forces bomb Pearl Harbor in hawaii -
US enters WWII
After Pearl Harobor was bombed by the Japanese, the US official declares war -
Wannsee Conference
Nazis at Wannsee Conference in Berlin discuss the solution to the "Jewish Problem" is relocation and later extermination -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Begins
The Warsaw ghetto, where jews were being held, begins an uprising -
Holocaust
Hungarian Jews are deported to Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps -
Mussolini Executed
After being captured Benito Mussolini is executed in Giulino, Itlay -
Hitler dies
Adolf Hitler commited suicide after realizing the war was against him and did not want to share Mussolini's fate -
World War II ends
All axis powers had surrendered -
First United Nations meeting
The United Nations meet for the first time in London -
Communism in Poland
Communist take power in Poland -
Start of the Cold war
Britain could no longer help Greece financially or military wise to over throw the Communist powers which were becoming stronger -
Republic of Korea
The Republic of Korea is established -
US troops withfraw from South Korea
The last of the US troops finally withdraw form South Korea -
Klaus Fuchs confesses about being a soviet spy
Klaus Fuchs , German emigre and physicist confesses to being a Soviet Spy for 7 years in which he had passed US and British nuclear information to the Soviet Union -
Refugees in Germany
West Germany has 8 million refugees within its borders -
Joseph Stalin dies
Soviet Union leader dies of what they thought was a stroke but later evidence suggests poison -
Ngo Dinh Diem becomes President
Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam to be a republic with himself as its president -
Communist party of Germany banned
West Germany bans the Communist party of Germany -
Little Rock Crisis
Governer Orville Faubus of Arkansas has the National Guard prevent Black students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock -
Antartic Treaty
12 countries including the US and Soviet Union which sets aside Antartica as Scientific preserve and disallows military activity -
Civil Rights Act of 1960
President Eisenhower signs civil rights act of 1960 into law -
Winston Churchill's death
Churchill suffered a stroke which killed him in the end -
Death of Malcom X
Malcom X, the Black Muslim advocate is assassinated -
Sirhan Sirhan admits to killing RFK
In a LA court Sirhan Sirhan admits to assassinating the presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy -
Paris Peace Accords
US involvement in Vietnam war ends with the signing of Paris Peace Accords -
Soviet pilot requests political asylum
Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter in Japan to request political asylum from the US -
US and Soviet Union negotiate nuclear weapons reductions
Representatives from US and the Soviet Union met in Geneva to negotiate reducing intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe ( negotiations were inconclusive) -
Reagan and Gorbachev meet for the first time
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev -
Emperor Hirohito dies
The leader of Japan during WWII dies -
End of Cold War
The end of the cold war came along with the collapse of the Soviet Union
