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Trans-seribian Railway
The Trans-Siberian Railway is one of the most famous architectural and engineering structures. -
Russo- Japanse War began
Japanese Navy attacked the Russian eastern fleet at Port Arthur, a naval base in the Liaotung province leased to Russia by China, which led to war. The Japanese defeated the Russians in a series of battles on land and at sea. -
Sun Yixian Became President of China
Sun played an instrumental role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty during the years leading up to the Double Ten Revolution. He was appointed to serve as Provisional President of the Republic of China, when it was founded in 1912. -
March revolution in Russia
World War I. In Russia, the February Revolution (known as such because of Russia's use of the Julian calendar) begins on this day in 1917, when riots and strikes over the scarcity of food erupt in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg). -
New Emconomic Policy Enforced In Ruissa
The Bolsheviks took contol of Petrograd and outstaed the provisonal government from the Winter Place. -
Treaty o Breast- Litovsk
between the new Bolshevik government of Russia (the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey), which ended Russia's participation in World War I. -
Benito Mussonlini Became the Leader of Italy
By the time he returnex from the Allied World War 1, there was a little left of Mussonlini the socialist. -
The League of Nations was created
The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. -
Kellogg- Briand Pact signed Ethiopia
is 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". -
Washington Confrence
The Washington Naval Conference, also called the Washington Arms Conference or the Washington Disarmament Conference, was a military conference called by President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington -
Dawes Plan Started
The Dawes plan was an attempt following World War 1 for the Triple Entente to comprimise and collet war reparations for Germeny. -
Adolf Hitler Wrote Mien Kampf
Mein Kampf is an autobiographical manifesto by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, in which he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany -
Charles Lindberugh's Solo flight arcoss the Atlantic
Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Lindbergh was just 25 years old when he completed the trip. -
The Great Depression Began
a severe worldwide econmic depression in the decade preceding World War 2 -
Hitler comited suicide
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. -
Japan invaded Manchuria
Describe Japan's invasion of Manchuria (1931–3) and what the League of Nations did about it. Summary. In the 1930s, the Japanese controlled the Manchurian railway. -
The New Deal Started
at the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt delivered his first inaugural address before 100,000 people on Washington's Capitol Plaza. -
The long march
There was not one Long March, but a series of marches, as various Communist armies in the south escaped to the north and west. -
Joseph Stalin Became leader of USSR
Stalin eventually outmaneuvered his rivals and won the power struggle for control of the Communist Party. -
Rome Berlin Axis
Coalition formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany. An agreement formulated by Italy’s foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano informally linking the two fascist countries was reached on October 25, 1936. It was formalized by the Pact of Steel in 1939. -
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
Hitler wanted all German-speaking nations in Europe to be a part of Germany. To this end, he had designs on re-uniting Germany with his native homeland, Austria. Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, however, Germany and Austria were forbidden to be unified. -
Kristallnacht Began
That night in Germany, thousands upon thousands of Jews were subject to terror and violence by the Nazis. Over 1,000 Jewish synagogues and over 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed, and approximately 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and taken to concentration camps. -
Battle of Britan
Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which will last three and a half months, begins. -
Lend- Lease Act
the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Operation Bararossa
Operation Barbarossa was named after Frederick Barbarossa, the medieval Holy Roman Emperor. The invasion was authorized by Hitler on 18 December 1940 (Directive No. 21) for a start date of 15 May 1941 -
The U.S. Declared War on Japan
The United States declared war on Japan upon the Empire of Japan, reponse to the suprise attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Chelmno Concentraction Camp Opened
A nazi German Extermination camp, located near Polish village -
Bataan Death March
U.S. General Edward P. King surrendered to Japanese General Masaharu Homma. At that point 75,000 soldiers became Prisoners of War: about 12,000 Americans and 63,000 Filipinos. -
battle of sea coral
The Battle of the Coral Sea, 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 United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theatre. -
Battle of Guadlcanal
Operation Watchtower by the allied forces -
Operation Toarch
Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast) was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War -
Casablanca Confrence
The Casablanca Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the city of Casablanca. -
Nuremburg trials
trials of accused Nazi war criminals, conducted by a U.S., French, and Soviet military tribunal based in Nuremberg, Germany, begins. Twenty-four former Nazi officials were tried, and when it was all over, one year later, half would be sentenced to death by hanging. -
Tehran Consfrence
The Tehran Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran. -
Operation Overload
picOperation 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 -
Batlle of Okinawa
The Final Great Battle of World War II. -
Mussolini was Dexecuted
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 -
Germany Surrendered
Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II. -
Manhatten Project Began
This once classified photograph features the first atomic bomb — a weapon that atomic scientists had nicknamed "Gadget.' -
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki
the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki. The New York Times article reported that the dropping of the bomb occurred at noon, Japanese time. -
V-J Day
General Douglas MacArthur accepted the Japanese surrender from General Yoshijiro Umezu aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. President Truman declared September 2 as the official VJ Day in 1945. -
Germeny Invaded Poland
The Invasion of Poland, aso known as The September Campagin or the Defense War. -
Great Purge Begins
The Great Purge of 1936-1938 in the Soviet Union can be roughly divided into four periods -
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.
