WIP IB History Timeline 1800s - 1990s : Asia, Europe and the USA

Meiji Restoration begins

Jan 3, 1868

Russo-Japanese War

Feb 8, 1904

Japan attacks Russia, beggining the Russo-Japanese War

End of Qing Dynasty

Feb 12, 1912

Japan Declares War on Germany

Aug 23, 1914

Japan issues 21 Demansa to China

Jan 18, 1915

encourages growth of nationalism and anti-Japanese sentiment in China

Sinking of RMS Lusitania

May 7, 1915

Exclusion Act

May 26, 1924

Results in growth of Japanese resentment against Western cupcakes

Zhang Zuolin Assasinated

Jun 4, 1928

The Great Depression

Period: Oct 29, 1929 to Dec 31, 1939

Manchurian Incident

Sep 18, 1931

Jiangxi Soviet

Period: Nov 7, 1931 to Oct 16, 1934

Manchukuo puppet state established

Mar 1, 1932

Reichstag elections

Jul 31, 1932

Nazis emerge as largest party

Adol Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

Reichstag Fire

Feb 27, 1933

Communists blamed

Night of the Long Knives

Jun 30, 1934

Hindenburg dies

Aug 2, 1934

Hitler combines the positions of president and chancellor

Nuremberg Laws introduced

Sep 15, 1935

Anti-Comintern Pact

Nov 25, 1936

Anti-Comintern pact signed between Japan and Germany

Nanjing Massacre begins

Dec 13, 1937

Also the Rape of Nanjing.

Munich Agreement

Sep 30, 1938

Munich meeting between Hitler, Chamberlain (Britain), Galadier (France) and Mussolini (Italy). Germany was allowed to acquire Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia as part of the general policy of 'appeasement' taken on Germany until WWII

Kristallnacht

Nov 9, 1938

November 9-10. Anti-Jewish pogrom

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Aug 23, 1939

Also the German-Soviet Non-Agression Pact. Guaranteed that each nations would not take hostile action towards each other, as well as interfere with local conflicts and either's enemies (e.g the Sino-Japanese War)

Germany invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

Great Britain and France declare war on Germany

Sep 3, 1939

Lend-Lease Act begins

Mar 11, 1941

1941-1945. USA economic programme supplying materials to nations in WWII

Germany invades Societ Union

Mar 21, 1941

Japan-Soviet Neutrality Pact

Apr 13, 1941

Pearl Harbour Attacks

Dec 7, 1941

Japan bombs Pearl Harbour, triggering the USA's participatoino in WWII

Wannsee Conference

Jan 20, 1942

Final Solution

Battle of Midway

Jun 3, 1942

June 3-5

Tehran Conference

Nov 28, 1943

D-Day

Jun 6, 1944

Allies launch an attack on German forces in Normandy.

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

Feb 4-11

Adolf Hitler commits suicide

Apr 30, 1945

Germany signs instrument of surrender

May 28, 1945

Germany signs instrument of surrender, officially ending WWII in Europe; Pacific War continues in Asia

Potsdam Declaration

Jul 26, 1945

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

Aug 6, 1945

Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Period: Aug 6, 1945 to Aug 9, 1945

USA drops atomic bombs on the cities Hiroshima (August 6th) and Nagasaki (August 9) at the lack of Japanese surrender

Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki

Aug 9, 1945

Japan surrenders and accepts terms of Postdam Declaration

Aug 14, 1945

Allied Occupation of Japan begins

Aug 28, 1945

North Korea invades South Korea

Jun 25, 1950

US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty signed

Sep 8, 1951

Occupation of Japan ends

Apr 28, 1952

US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty goes into effect

Cuban Revolution

Jan 21, 1959

John F. Kennedy becomes US president

Jan 20, 1961

Bay of Pigs invasion

Apr 13, 1961

Cuban Missle Crisis begins

Oct 16, 1962

SALT I signed

May 26, 1972

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

Berlin Wall falls

Nov 9, 1989