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Nicholas II, the last czar, is crowned ruler of Russia.
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Muuch violent argument, barracking and interminable hair-splitting as every tiny point was dissected and analysed between the group.
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Japan and Russia get into a war.
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The Trans-Siberian railway was built all through Russia.
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Imperial forces opened fire on the demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds. Strikes and riots broke out.
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He said that as moving objects neared the speed of light, space and time became relative.
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Sun Yixian became president of China after he returned from exile.
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Peasants and workers wanted an end to food shortages.
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ended centuries of imperial rule and setting in motion political and social changes that would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union
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He is forced to abdicate the throne on this day in 1917, after strikes and general revolts break out
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many groups had formed that opposed Lenin’s Bolsheviks. These groups included monarchists, militarists, and, foreign nations.
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Russia signs a treaty with the Central Powers ending its participation in World War I.
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A communist revolution in China.
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Government that wanted to replace the imperial form of government.
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The new program signified a return to a limited capitalist system.
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Nazi government soon assumed dictatorial powers under Hitler.
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Benito Mussolini became the Leader of Italy until 1943.
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Russia joined the USSR.
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Lenin beame the Leader of Russia after he and the Red Army destroyed all of the government.
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A group of nations that came together after the First World War to ensure that war never broke out again.
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An attempt following WWI to collect war reparation debt from Germany.
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Hitler wrote this book in prison after he commited treason during the Beer Hall Putsch.
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Jiang Jieshi became the leader of the Kumointang after Sun Yat-sen.
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He took over at a time of rising democratic sentiment, but his country soon turned toward ultra-nationalism and militarism.
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A difference in thinking between the Communist Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Kuomintang
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Charles Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris by himself.
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, Stalin seized assets, including farms and factories, and reorganized the economy.
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An agreement to outlaw war, in efforts to prevent another World War.
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The Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower.
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October 29, 1929 is when the stock market crashed and the Great depression began.
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Stock Market prices plunged after the New deal.
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Japan invaded the island of Manchuria as a strategic move.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt began a program that created jobs for millions and helepd businesses and farmers.
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He became the 32nd President of the United States.
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Hitler put Jews in ghettos and let them die of starvation and disease.
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Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, as chancellor of Germany.
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The Red Army retreated with only 87,000 soldiers.
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Hitler began rebuilding the military and stopping the payments.
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Providing for the prohibition of the export of arms, ammunition, and implements of war to belligerent countries
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Tens of thousands of Ethiopians were killed as the Italian army employed poison gas
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Arrest, exile, or killing of thousands of suspected enemies of the Communist Party.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by sending German military forces into the Rhineland.
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The fasists countries of Germany and Italy become an alliance.
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Franco was a dictator. His rule was law. Franco’s Spain displayed all the usual characteristics of a right wing dictatorship
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the Japanese launched a full-scale invasion of China using the conquered Manchuria as a launching base for their troops.
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The city of Nanking ws destroyed and citizens were killed during the Sino-Japanese War.
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Union between Germany and Austria.
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Hitler Granted the Sudentenland by Britain, France and Italy.
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The Munich Pact is signed, which seals the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace.
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Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews.
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guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other.
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Adolf Hitler gambles and sends his troops to Invade Poland.
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The Phony War.
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largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps.
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Churchill is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister.
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The operation became necessary when large numbers of British, French, and Belgian troops were cut off and surrounded by the German army
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The French government which succeeded the Third Republic
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The Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain
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the Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact
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The Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
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Over 3 million German troops invade Russia
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Leaders of the Allies meet up to talk about WWII.
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the United States and Great Britain issued a joint declaration in August 1941 that set out a vision for the postwar world.
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The Japanese launched a surprise air attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
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The U.S declared war on Japan after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
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SS and police authorities established the Chelmno killing center in order to annihilate the Jewish population.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt made 120,000 Americans of Japanese heritage to one of 10 internment camps.
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After the U.S. surrender of Bataan Peninsula 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps.
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air attack on Japan, launched from the aircraft carrier Hornet and led by Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle
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The first air-naval battle in history
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The United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. 6 months after the Pearl Harbor attack.
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The Nazis committed genocide of all non-Aryans in Germany.
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the successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad.
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The U.S. Marines launced aa suprise attack on Guadalcanal where Japaneese Troops were.
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British commander Bernard Law Montgomery launched an infantry attack at El Alamein.
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The British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War.
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A meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the city of Casablanca.
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the United States gained military bases and secured the many small islands in the Pacific.
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The Allies begin their invasion of Axis-controlled Europe with landings on the island of Sicily
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A conference to discuss strategies for winning World War II and potential terms for a peace settlement.
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American, British and Canadian forces landed along a 50-mile stretch of the coast of France’s Normandy region.
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Japanese suicise pilots crash into enemy navy vessals.
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Battles of Leyte Island proved among the bloodiest of the war in the Pacific and signaled the beginning of the end for the Japanese.
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Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust
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Nation Leaders made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world.
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the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting.
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The last and biggest of the Pacific island battles of World War II.
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After trying to escape from Italy, Benito Mussolini was hung.
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Hitler Knew he had lost the war so he committed suicide.
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Germany surrenders unconditionally to the Allies.
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VE Day officially announced the end of World War Two in Europe.
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The American effort to design and build an ATOMIC BOMB
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The leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations.
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Japan formally surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II.
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The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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The second atomic bomb dropped on Japan by the U.S.
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When Japan surrendered. It is known as VictoryOver Japan Day. And it ended World War II.
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Nazi Party officials and high-ranking military officers were indicted on such charges as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.
