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BEGINNING OF THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR
The Russian Civil War (7 November 1917 — 16 June 1923) was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. -
END OF THE WW1
On November 11, 1918, the armistice of Compiègne ended what had so far been the most devastating war in the history of mankind. The Great War was a conflict that would be the prelude to another that, years later, would have even more terrible consequences, the Second World War. -
TREAT OF VERSALLES
It called for a negotiated end to the war, international disarmament, the withdrawal of the Central Powers from occupied territories, the creation of a Polish state, the redrawing of Europe's borders along ethnic lines, and the formation of a League of Nations to guarantee the political independence -
MUSSOLINI SEIZED THE POWER
On 30 October 1922, the King appointed Mussolini as Prime Minister, thereby transferring political power to the fascists without armed conflict. On 31 October the fascist Blackshirts paraded in Rome, while Mussolini formed his coalition government. -
THE TREATY OF LOCARNO
The treaty of Locarno, also known as the Locarno Pact, the treaty guaranteed Germany's western frontier, which the bordering states of France, Germany, and Belgium pledged to treat as inviolable. As signatories of the agreement, Britain and Italy committed themselves to help to repel any armed aggression across the frontier. -
CRACK OF NY STOCK MARKET
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash or the Crash of '29, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It began in September, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) collapsed, and ended in mid-November. -
THE LONDON CONFERENCE (1930)
London Naval Conference, (Jan. 21–April 22, 1930), conference held in London to discuss naval disarmament and to review the treaties of the Washington Conference of 1921–22. Hosted by Great Britain, it included representatives of the United States, France, Italy, and Japan. -
II REPUBLIC
The Second Spanish Republic, whose official name was the Spanish Republic, was the democratic regime that existed in Spain between April 14, 1931, the date of its proclamation, replacing the monarchy of Alfonso XIII, and April 1, 1939, the date of the end of the Civil War, which gave way to the dictatorship. -
HITLER CANCELLIER
Hitler was appointed Imperial Chancellor (Reichskanzler) in January 1933 and, a year later, upon the death of President Paul von Hindenburg, he proclaimed himself Imperial Leader and Chancellor (Führer und Reichskanzler), thus assuming supreme command of the German state. -
RECOGNITION OF THE SOVIET UNION
On November 16, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt ended almost 16 years of American non-recognition of the Soviet Union following a series of negotiations in Washington, D.C. with the Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Maxim Litvinov. -
SPANISH CIVIL WAR
The Spanish Civil War began on July 17, 1936, when Generals Emilio Mola and Francisco Franco launched an uprising to overthrow the democratically elected Republic. -
BEGINNING OF WW2
World War II began in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany on September 3. The war between the U.S.S.R. and Germany began on June 22, 1941, with Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union. -
ITALY ENTERS IN THE WAR
Italy enters the war: June 1940. Italy and its colonies in 1940, before the start of the Western Desert Campaign. On 10 June 1940, as the French government fled to Bordeaux during the German invasion, declaring Paris an open city, Mussolini felt the conflict would soon end and declared war on Britain and France. -
WAR DECLARATION
The United States declared the war to Japan entering in the II World War. Japanese troops arrived in Philippines, in French Indochina and in British Singapore. These would led to the conflict with Germany and the Axis too. -
OCCUPATION OF HUNGARY
The Germans fearing Hungary’s intention to desert the Axis partnership, they occupy Hungary and compel the regent with admiral Miklos Horthy as a pro-German minister president -
END OF WW2
August 9, 1945 The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. September 2, 1945 Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders and World War II ends.