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Sandino is murdered
murdered in Nicaragua: Augusto Nicolás de Sandino y Calderón (May 18, 1895–February 21, 1934), also known as Augusto César Sandino. He was a Nicaraguan revolutionary and leader of a rebellion between 1927 and 1933 against the U.S. military occupation of Nicaragua. -
Transfer of British Hong Kong to China:
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories and other ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. -
Revolution in Iran
Occurred during 1905 through 1911. The Islamic Revolution (also known as the National Revolution of Iran or the 1979 Revolution refers to events involving the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under Mohammad Rez Shah Pahlavi. -
Assasination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
sparked the outbreak of World war I -
May Fourth Movement in China
The term "May Fourth Movement" in a broader sense often refers to the period during 1915-1921 more often called the New Culture Movement. Many political and social leaders of the next decades emerged at this time. -
Bolshevik Revolution
the October uprising and was a stop of state power -
Civil war in Russia
Rissians fought against the Bolshevik reds and the Bolshevik whites. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers. The treaty was signed at Brest-Litovsk after two months of negotiations. -
Paris Peace Conference
The Paris Peace Conference was the meeting of the Allied victors, following the end of World War 1. It took place in Paris during 1919 and involved diplomats from more than 32 countries and nationalities. -
Mussolini launches fascist movement in Italy
The ideology is associated with the National Fascist Party, which under Benito Mussolini ruled the Kingdom of Italy from 1922 until 1943. Italy declared war on Austria in alliance with Prussia in 1866: despite an unsuccessful campaign. -
Partition of India
The Partition of India was the partition of the British -
Ataturk proclaims Republic of Turkey
Policy changes trying to change Turkey in a modernized state. -
US stock market crash
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries. -
US troops in Vietnam
The Vietnam War , also known as the Second Indochina War,and known by the Vietnamese as the Resistance War Against America. As the war wore on, the part of the Viet Cong in the fighting decreased as the role of the NVA grew. U.S. and South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations. -
Stalin's "Great Purge" in USSR
The Great Purge was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1934 to 1940. It involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials, repression of peasants and the Red Army leadership, and widespread police surveillance, suspicion of "saboteurs", imprisonment, and arbitrary executions. -
Cardenas nationalizes oil industry in Mexico
decided to expropriate the oil industry and create a national oil company -
Soviet victory at Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany. Marked by constant close quarters combat and disregard for military and civilian casualties, it is among the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare. -
Capture of Berlin by Soviet forces
soviet attacked Berlin, and then the soviets entered Austria -
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaski
The final stages of World War II. -
Civil disobedience movement in India
this is the refusal to obey certain laws. -
Indian Empire that led to the creation
and 15 August 1947, respectively, of the sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan. -
Apartheid in South Africa
System of racial segregation. -
Arab-Israeli War
Started because of 5 states invaded the Palestinian territory. -
Creation of Israel
David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel -
Establishment of People's Republic of China
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Establishment of NATO
established by 12 Western nations: The United STates, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Portugal. The military alliance, which provided for a collective self-defense against Soviet aggression, greatly increased American influence in Europe. -
Algerian war of liberation
War between France and Algerian about independence. -
Uprising in Hungary:
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 or Hungarian Uprising of 1956 was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People’s Republic. It was the first major threat to Soviet control since the USSR's forces drove out the Nazis at the end of World War II and occupied Eastern Europe. Despite the failure of the uprising. -
Suez crisis
The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez Canal Crisis, Suez War, or Second Arab-Israeli War. The attack followed the President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser’s decision of 26 July 1956 to nationalize the Suez Canal after the withdrawal of an offer by Britain and the United States to fund the building of the Aswan Dam. -
Castro comes to power in Cuba
Brought own assumption of military and political power -
Sino-Soviet rift
The Sino-Soviet split (1960–1989) was the worsening of political and ideological relations between the People’s REpublic of China and theUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics during the cold war. -
Division of Berlin and Germany
was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 -
Construction of Berlin Wall
to divide East and West Berlin. Construction of the wall caused a short-term crisis in U.S.-Soviet bloc relations, and the wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War. -
Creation of PLO
The Arab League initiated the creation of an organization representing the Palestinian people -
Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
The withdrawal of Soviet combatant forces from the Afghanistan began on 15 May 1988 and successfully executed on 15 February 1989 under the leadership of Colonel-General Boris Gromov. Under the Gemeva Accords on 15 April 1988, the Afghanistan and Pakistan signed three instruments-on principles of mutual relations. -
Reunification of Germany
The East German regime started to falter in May 1989, when the removal of Hungary’s border fence opened a hole in the Iron Curtain. The German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany. -
Collapse of USSR
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D-Day, Allied invasion at Normandy