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Czar Nicholas 2nd Became the Leader of Russia
His official short title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias. -
Adolf Hitler Became the Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. -
Trans-Siberian Railway Built
The Trans-Siberian Railway is a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan. -
Kuomintang was created
The Kuomintang, officially the Kuomintang of China, or sometimes romanized as Guomindang by its Pinyin transliteration, is the ruling political party in Taiwan. -
Russian Marxists Split into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks claimed the name after getting their way in a wrangle over the editorial board of the Party newspaper Iskra. -
Russo-Japanese War Began
The Russo-Japanese War was "the first great war of the 20th century." -
Bloody Sunday in Russia
Bloody Sunday was the name that came to be given to the events of 22 January 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, where unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard, approaching the city center and the Winter Palace from several gathering points. -
Albert Einstein Developed the Theory of Relativity
The theory of relativity, or simply relativity in physics, usually encompasses two theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity. -
March Revolution in Russia
The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917. -
March revolution in Russia
The February Revolution (March 1917) was a revolution focused around Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg). In the chaos, members of the Imperial parliament or Duma assumed control of the country, forming the Russian Provisional Government. -
Czar Nicholas 2nd was Abdicated
Nicholas II ruled from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 2 March 1917. -
The Bolshevik Revolution
The Bolshevik Revolution, was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. -
Russian Civil war Began
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army, the loosely allied anti-Bolshevik forces. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ended Russia's participation in world war 1. -
Weimar Republic Established in Germany
The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the federal republic and semipresidential representative democracy established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government. -
May Fourth Movement Began
The May Fourth Movement was an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4, 1919, protesting the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, especially allowing Japan to receive territories in Shandong which had been surrendered by Germany after the Siege of Tsingtao. -
New Econimic Policy Enforced in Russia
The New Econimic Policy enforced in Russia was in the year 1921. -
Adolf HItler Became the Leader of the Nazi Party
This article is about the German Nazi Party that existed from 1920–1945. -
Russia became the USSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics abbreviated to USSR or the Soviet Union, was a socialist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991, governed as a single-party state by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital. -
Benito Mussolini became the leader of Italy
Mussolini became the leader of Italt on October 29 1922. -
Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf is an autobiographical manifesto by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, in which he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. -
Vladimir Lenin became the leader of Russia
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. -
Dawes Plan Started
The Dawes plan started on August 16th 1924. -
Jiang Jieshi became the leader of the Kuomintang
Jiang Jieshi became the leader of Kuomintang after Sum Yat-sen died. -
Sun Yixian Became President of China
Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925)was a Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China. -
Hirohito Became the Emperor of Japan
The name Hirohito means "abundant benevolence". -
Civil War in China Began
The Chinese Civil War was a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China led by the Kuomintang and forces of the Communist Party of China. -
Charles Lindbergh's Solo Flight Across the Atlantic
As a result of this flight, Lindbergh was the first person in history to be in New York one day and Paris the next. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact Signed
The Kellogg–Briand Pact (or Pact of Paris, officially General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy[1]) was a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them". -
The Great Depression Began
The Great Depression lasted from 1929- the early 1940's. -
U.S. Congress Passed the Neutrality Acts
The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. -
Japan Invaded Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 19, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt became President of the U.S.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 32nd President of the United States. -
The Holocaust Began
The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and ended in 1945 when the Nazis were defeated by the Allied powers. -
New Deal Started
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938. -
The League of Nations was Created
It was the first international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. -
The Long March
The Long March (October 1933-October 1935) was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) army. -
Great Purge Began
The Great Purge was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1934 to 1939. -
Italy Invaded Ethiopia
The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia. -
Germany Reoccupied the Rhineland
The remilitarization of the Rhineland by the German Army took place on 7 March 1936 when German military forces entered the Rhineland. -
Francisco Franco Led a Fascist Revolt in Spain
The Spanish Civil War was fought from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939 between the Republicans, who were loyal to the democratically elected Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists, a rebel group led by General Francisco Franco. -
Rome-Berlin Axis
An agreement formulated by Italy’s foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano informally linking the two fascist countries was reached on October 25, 1936. -
Japan Invaded china
The Second Sino-Japanese War, called so after the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95, was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1941. -
Rape of Nanking
The Nanking Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
Anschluss
The Anschluss also known as the Anschluss Österreichs was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938. -
Adolf Hitler took the Sudentenland
The Sudetenland is the German name to refer to those northern, southwest, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited mostly by German speakers, specifically the border districts of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts of Silesia located within Czechoslovakia. -
Hitler Hosted Munich Conference
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined. -
Kristallnacht Began
This night is also known as the Night of Broken Glass. -
Hitler enacted the FInal Solution
The Final Solution was Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to systematically exterminate the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe, which resulted in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact Signed
On August 23, 1939, representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. -
Germany Invaded Poland (Blitzkrieg)
The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, while the Soviet invasion commenced on 17 September 1939 following the Molotov-Tōgō agreement which terminated the Russian and Japanese hostilities (Nomonhan incident) in the east on 16 September 1939. -
Adolf Hitler Defied the Treaty of Versailles
On September 1st 1939 Adolf Hitler broke the treaty by invading Poland thus starting WW2 in Europe. -
Sitzkrieg Began
Contemporaneously, the period had also been referred to as the Twilight War, der Sitzkrieg, the Bore War, Dziwna Wojna, and drôle de guerre. -
Allies Evacuate Dunkirk
The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940. -
Auschwitz Death Camp Opened
Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. -
Tripartite Pact Signed
The Tripartite Pact, also the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact or Tripartite Treaty was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany. -
Land-Lease Act
It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of World War II in Europe in September 1939. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa, beginning 22 June 1941, was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. -
Atlantic Charter
It was drafted by the leaders of Britain and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies. -
Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor
The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
The U.S. Declared War on Japan
The U.S. declared war on Japan on December the 8th 1941. -
Nisei were Interned in Relocation Centers in the U.S.
Japanese American internment was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States. -
Bataan Death March
All told, approximately 2,500–10,000 Filipino and 100–650 American prisoners of war died before they could reach their destination at Camp O'Donnell.The reported death tolls vary, especially amongst Filipino POWs, because historians cannot determine how many prisoners blended in with the civilian population and escaped. -
Doolittle raids Over Japan
The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, on 18 April 1942, was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II, the first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought during 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway in the Pacific Theater of Operations was one of the most important naval battles of World War II. -
Washington Conference
There were three confernces between Rosevelt and Churchill. -
Battle of El Alamein
.The Battles occurred in North Africa in Egypt in and around an area named after a railway stop called El Alamein. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
Battle of Guadalcanal begain on August 7th 1942. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the southwestern Soviet Union. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942. -
Casablanca Conference
The Casablanca Conference was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, then a French protectorate, from January 14 to 24, 1943, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. -
Manhattan Project Began
The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. -
Chelmno Concentration Camp Opened
It was built to exterminate Jews of the Łódź Ghetto and the local Polish inhabitants of Reichsgau Wartheland . -
Allies Landed in Sicily
The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis Powers . -
Tehran Conference
The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943. -
Island Hopping Campaign
Leapfrogging (also called "islandhopping") was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II. -
Operation Overlord (D Day)
Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. -
Vichy Government Established in France
Vichy France, officially the French State, was France during the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain, during World War II, from the German victory in the Battle of France to the Allied liberation in August 1944. -
Kamikaze Pilots Appear in the Pacific
During World War II, nearly 4,000 kamikaze pilots were killed. -
Gen. Macarthur Returned to the Philippines (Leyte Gulf)
The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the amphibious invasion of the Gulf of Leyte in the Philippines by American and Filipino guerrilla forces under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita from 20 October - 31 December 1944. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
Battle of two Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima, or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. -
Mussolini was Executed
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. -
Hitler committed Suicide
That afternoon, in accordance with Hitler's prior instructions, their remains were carried up the stairs through the bunker's emergency exit, doused in petrol, and set alight in the Reich Chancellery garden outside the bunker. -
Germany Surrendered
The German Instrument of Surrender ended World War II in Europe. -
V-E Day
It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
Battle of Okinawa
Four divisions of the U.S. 10th Army and two Marine Divisions (the 1st and 6th) fought on the island. Their invasion was supported by naval, amphibious, and tactical air forces. -
Postdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945. Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. -
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in August 1945. -
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki
On this day the scond bomb was dropped on Japan. -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered. -
Japan Surrendered
he surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, brought the hostilities of World War II to a close. -
Nurmemberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. -
Winston Churchill Became the Prime Minister of GB
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. -
Josheph Stalin became the Leader of the USSR
Joseph Stalin or Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. -
Stock Market Crashed in the U.S.
A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. -
Five-Year Plan Began
The Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union were a series of nation-wide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union.
