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Czar Nicholas II Became the Chancellor of Germany
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Russo-Japanese War Began
Was "the first great war of the 20th century." It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. -
Trans- Siberian Railway Built
It is a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan. -
Bloody Sunday in Russia
Where unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were fired on by soldiers of the Imperial Guard, -
Sun Yixian Became President of China
Sun is referred to as the "Father of the Nation" in China. Sun played an important role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty. -
Albert Einstein Developed the Theory of Relativity
the current description of gravitation in modern physics. -
March Revolution in Russia
Series of revolutions which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR. -
The Bolshevik Revoulution
was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. -
New Economic Policy Enforced in Russia
The dramatic decrease in Bolshevik support inspired Lenin to retract his policy of War Communism and shaped how he crafted his New Economic Policy. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Was a peace treaty on March 3, 1918, 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. -
Vladimir Lenin became the Leader of Russia
Lenin had a significant influence on the international Communist movement and was one of the most influential and controversial people of the 20th century. -
May Fourth Movement Began
was an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing, protesting the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles. -
Weimar Republic Established in Germany
is the name given by historians to the federal republic and semipresidential representative democracy in Germany to replace the imperial form of government -
The League of Nations was Created
Was an intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. -
Adolf Hitler Became the Leader of the Nazi Party
was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg in 1933 -
Adolf Hitler Became the Leader of the Nazi Party
was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg in -
Washington Conference
The Four-Power act signed by Great Britain, France, Japan, and the United States. -
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 -
Benito Mussolini Became the leader of Italy
Following the March on Rome in October 1922 he became the youngest Prime Minister in Italian history until the appointment of Matteo Renzi on February 2014. -
Joseph Stalin became the leader of the USSR
After the death of Vladimir Lenin. His actual dictatorship began after he became the undisputed leader of Russia in 1929. He banned all private businesses, eliminated opposition, and started an over twenty year’s long campaign of killing fellow countrymen by the millions. -
Dawes Plan Started
The Dawes Plan was an attempt following World War I for the Triple Entente to compromise and collect war reparations debt from Germany. -
Jiang Jieshi Became the leader of the Kuomintang
He became the Commandant of the Kuomintang's Whampoa Military Academy and took Sun's place as leader of the KMT when Sun died in 1925. -
Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf
was an autobiographical manifesto which he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany -
Civil War In China Began
was a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China and forces of the Communist Party of China -
Charles Lindbergh's Solo Flight Across the Atlantic
Thirty-three and one half-hours and 3,500 miles later he landed in Paris, the first to fly the Atlantic alone. -
Five-Year Plan began
were a series of nation-wide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union. -
Italy invaded Ethiopia
Its effects were to undermine the credibility of the League of Nations and to encourage Fascist Italy to ally itself with Nazi Germany. The crisis brought an end to peace in Europe and it was clear by 1937 there were two defining sides in Europe. -
Kellogg- Briand Pact Signed
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." -
Stock Market Crashed in the U.S.
The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression. -
Great Depression Began
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. -
The New Deal Started
Was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938. They involved laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Japan Invaded Manchuria
When the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II. -
The Holocaust Began
The Jews who died were the victims of Germany's attempt to annihilate the entire Jewish population of Europe, a plan Hitler called the “Final Solution” -
The Long March
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 army. -
Adolf Hitler Defied the Treaty of Versailles
Hitler defies the League of Nations and Versailles Treaty by reintroducing a military draft. -
U.S. Congress Passed the Neutrality Acts
Were made to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts. -
Great Purge Began
Its goal was to sweep away all of Stalin's real and imaginary enemies and to infuse all levels of Soviet society -
Rome-Berlin Axis
A coalition formed between Italy and Germany, it formally linked the two fascist countries. -
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
Political union of Austria with Germany, achieved through annexation by Adolf Hitler in 1938. -
Adolf Hitler took Sudetenland
Leaders of Nazi Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy signed an agreement that allowed the Nazis to annex the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia that was home to many ethnic Germans. -
Kristallnacht Began
The name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues had their windows smashed. -
Nazi- Soviet Pact Signed
guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other -
Germany Invaded Poland (Blitzkreig)
The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. -
Vichy Government Established in France
formally French State, France under the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain from the Nazi German defeat of France to the Allied liberation in World War II. -
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. -
Lend-Lease Act
Was a program which the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and other Allied nations -
Operation Barbarossa
was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. -
The Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor
was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii -
The U.S. declared war on Japan
The United States Congress declared war upon the Empire of Japan in response to that country's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the prior day. -
Chelmno Concentration Camp Opened
Known to the Germans as the Kulmhof concentration camp, was a Nazi German extermination camp. -
Bataan Death March
Was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Philipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. -
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 decisively defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan -
Manhattan Project Began
The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the southwestern Soviet Union. -
Nisei were interned in Relocation Centers in the U.S.
in "War Relocation Camps" of over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States. -
Battle Of El Alamein
Axis and Allied forces chased each other over the hostile terrain of the North African desert. -
OperationTorch
was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of WWII -
Casablanca Conference
The Casablanca Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the city of Casablanca. -
Allies Landed in Sicily
The Allies took Sicily from the Axis Powers -
Tehran Conference
was a strategy meeting with Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill -
Operation Overload (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. -
Gen. Macarthur Returned o the Philippines (Leyte Gulf)
Launched the Philippines campaign of 1944–45 for the recapture of the entire Philippine Archipelago and to end almost three years of Japanese occupation. -
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
was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, it was to discuss Europe's post-war reorganization. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. -
Battle of Okinawa
Was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. -
Mussolini was executed
Mussolini tried to escape the Allied Army by hiding in a German convoy headed for the Alps. After he was found, the council of partisan leaders, lead by the Communists, secretly decided to execute Mussolini and 15 leading Fascists in retaliation. -
Hitler Committed Suicide
Germany's military situation was on the verge of total collapse and Poland was lost to Soviet forces, -
Germany Surrendered
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V-J Day
is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. -
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki
a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender. -
Potsdam Conference
The goals of the conference also included the establishment of post-war order, peace treaties issues, and countering the effects of the war. -
Nuremberg Trials
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.
