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Maderos Arrival to Power
After helping with the revolts to derrocate Porfirio Díaz, Madero becomes president. -
Madero´s Assasination
Madero and Pino Suarez were being moved to a penitentiary. That was when they were killed. -
Beginning of WW1
The assasination of Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria-Hungary, by the serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. -
Socialist Russian Revolution
The overthrow of the provisional government in Russia after the Tsar´s autocratic government was removed. This borught Lenin to power. -
14 points of Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson created a document of 14 articles that proposed World Peace. These articles were used at the end of the war for negociations. -
End of WW1
The allies pushed towards Germany. The Central Powers collapsed and some empires like the Ottoman Empire started signing armistices. Other powers followed. -
Obregon start of Government
Because of Carranza´s policies and attempts to have "puppets" in a leading role in the country. Obregón then took over in 1920. -
Mussolini start of government
He formed the Fascist Party. They had the support of many war veterans. Black Shirts wre the party´s army and they terrorised the political oponents. He reached power in 1921 when his party was invited to the power coalition. -
Stalin´s Arrival to power
Stalin as the secretary of the party expelled Leon Trotsky and then rose to power. -
Start Of Maximato
Plutarco Elías Calles controled the presidents because of his desire for power. -
Start of Cristero movement
The catholics in México were upset because of the anti-catholic government of Plutarco Elías Calles. He wanted to take the power away from the church and repress catholic communities. -
Start of the Great depression
Horrific worldwide economic repression that affected most countries. Ended in the late 1930´s. -
Hitler arrives to power
As great chancellor of Germany, as leader of the NAZI Germany, he started in 1934 -
Cardenas start of government
Cárdens formed the Partido Nacional Revolucionario and outran Calles politically and forced him into exile. He then became president. -
Beginning of WW2
Started when Japan and China entered into a big, long war. When Germany invaded Poland which led to France and Great Britain to declare war to them. -
Trumans arrival to power
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–53), an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served as a United States Senator from Missouri (1935–45) and briefly as Vice President (1945) before he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was president during the final months of World War II, making the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman was elected in h -
First Bombing in Japan
The United States, with the consent of the United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of World War II. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. -
Occupation of Hungary
Operation Margarethe was the occupation of Hungary by Nazi German forces during World War II,as it was ordered by Hitler. A plan for the occupation of Romania was devised under the name Operation Margarethe II but was never carried out, so the Romanian Government switched sides the first chance it had. -
Creation of Israel state
On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day. -
Berlin´s Blockade initial date
This was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
Start of the Korean War
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. -
Start of USA participation in Vietnam War
In 1961, South Vietnam signed a military and economic aid treaty with the United States leading to the arrival of U.S. support troops and the formation of the U.S. Military Assistance Command -
Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. It played out on television worldwide and was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
Beginning of Mao Zedong Revolution
The Revolution marked the return of Mao Zedong to a position of power after the Great Leap Forward. The movement paralyzed China politically and significantly affected the country economically -
Beginning of Prague Spring
The Prague Spring was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. It began, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia , and continued until 21 August when the Soviet Union and other members of the Warsaw Pact invaded the country to halt the reforms. -
Tlatelolco´s Massacre
Was the killing of an estimated 30 to 300 students and civilians by military and police, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City. The events are considered part of the Mexican Dirty War, when the government used its forces to suppress political opposition. The massacre occurred 10 days before the opening of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. More than 1,300 people were arrested by security police. -
Latin american debt crisis
The Latin American debt crisis was a financial crisis that originated in the early 1980s, often known as the "lost decade", when Latin American countries reached a point where their foreign debt exceeded their earning power and they were not able to repay it. -
Ronald Reagan arrival
He was an American politician and actor, who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Prior to his presidency, he served as the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975, following a career as an actor and union leader in Hollywood. -
Start of the Fall of Berlin´s Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall: people used various tools to chip off souvenirs, demolishing lengthy parts in the process, and creating several unofficial border crossings.
