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His reign saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse.
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All attempts to mend it broke on Lenin’s intransigent hatred of the Mensheviks and he concentrated on creating an efficient machine for his obedient followers, with fateful consequences.
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Japan offered to recognize Russian dominance in Manchuria in exchange for recognition of Korea as a Japanese sphere of influence, but Russia refused this.
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Unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard when approaching the city.
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Einstein develops 2 ground-breaking theories that change the original thoughts of quantum physics forever.
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The first President of the Provisional Government.
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A Chinese political party that played a significant part in the first Chinese first National Assembly where is was the majority party.
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The longest railroad in the world, which connected Moscow with Eastern Russia, was completed.
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A series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR.
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In March 1917, the army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate.
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A seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917.
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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.
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He took a senior role in orchestrating the October Revolution, which led to the overthrow of the provisional government and the establishment of the RSFSR.
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Vladimir Lenin forces a new policy on the Soviet Union.
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a peace treaty on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers, which ended Russia's participation in World War I
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An anti-imperialist movement growing out of student demonstrations, protesting the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles.
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The federal republic and semipresidential representative democracy established in Germany to replace the imperial form of government.
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Adolf Hitler was introduced as Führer of the Nazi Party, marking the first time that title was publicly used to address him.
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A meeting with America, Japan, China, France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal, regarding interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia.
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Mussolini dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship.
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Vladimir Lenin rules Russia and becomes the first ruler of the USSR
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He replaced the New Economic Policy introduced by Lenin in the early 1920s with a highly centralised command economy.
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An attempt following World War I for the Triple Entente to compromise and collect war reparations debt from Germany.
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Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles that had been forced on Germany and promoted nationalism.
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This book was the first time Hitler spoke out against the Treaty of Versailles.
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During the postwar period, he became the symbol of the new state and Japan's recovery.
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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.
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Lindbergh made a non-stop flight, a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles.
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Joseph Stalin created this plan of economic goals based off of his socialist ideas.
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Signed by Germany, France, and the U.S.
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Stock Markets crashed and Americans fall into poverty.
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The most devastating stock market crash in U.S. History that singnaled the start of he Great Depression.
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Japan fought with China (Second Sino-Japanese War) before the conflict eventually merged into WWII.
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The Japanese established a puppet state, called Manchukuo, and their occupation lasted until the end of World War II.
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Nazi Germany started the Final Solution, and began murdering millions of jews.
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Upon taking office Hitler immediately began accumulating power and changing the nature of the Chancellor
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A central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, he lead the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.
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A series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938
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A military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China.
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Group made in the Allies to help fix conflictions in WWII
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The U.S. sought to ensure that it would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts.
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The war exposed the inherent weakness of the League of Nations.
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German military forces entered the Rhineland, which violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
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a Civil War was fought between the Republicans, who were loyal to the democratically elected Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists,
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A Coalation developed between Germany and Italy.
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A campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin.
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An episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War
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The occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany
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Hitler demanded autonomy for the Sudetenland and the freedom to profess Nazi ideology.
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Jlang Jieshi Established the Kuomintang in Guangzhou.
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A settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers.
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A pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria.
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Garanteed that the two countries would not attack each other.
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Germany raids Poland for one month and 5 days.
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A phase early in World War II that was marked by a lack of major military operations by the Western Allies against the German Reich.
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Hilter gave the order to build a new concentration camp, and this one had the most victims than any other Nazi camp in history.
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The evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France.
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France during the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain, from the German victory in the Battle of France to the Allied liberation
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The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces.
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A pact signed in Berlin, Germany which established the Axis Powers of World War II.
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He proved to be one of the highest-profile ministers during the so-called "Phoney War," when the only noticeable action was at sea.
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A program under which the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel.
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Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II
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A pivotal policy statement issued in August 14,1941 that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world.
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The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning.
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The Allies' plan was to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions and concentrate the limited Allied resources on important islands that were not well defended but capable of supporting the drive to the main islands of Japan.
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The U.S. declared war in response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Over 152,000 killed at this Nazi Extermination Camp.
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Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to systematically exterminate the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe.
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The World War II internment of over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States.
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The forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II
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In retaliation to the Pearl Harbor, it was the first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands.
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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.
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The U.S. intercepted an attack made by the Empire of Japan.
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The battle, although a stalemate, halted a second advance by the Axis forces into Egypt.
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It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.
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A research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II.
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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.
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The British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the World War II
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A meeting to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II.
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A major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis Powers.
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a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill.
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The invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces.
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Maccarthur was the only man ever to become a field marshal in the Philippine Army, and he defended the Philipinnes for most of his life.
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A major German offensive campaign launched through the Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II.
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The World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization.
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A major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire.
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After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa, a large island only 340 miles away from mainland Japan, as a base for air operations.
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In late April 1945, with total defeat looming, Mussolini attempted to escape north,[6] only to be quickly captured and summarily executed near Lake Como by Italian partisans.
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Hitler was informed of the execution of Mussolini, which presumably increased his determination to avoid capture.
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The German Instrument of Surrender ended World War II in Europe.
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The European version of America's V-J Day, it celebrates the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.
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Kamikaze (meaning spirit wind in Japanese) pilots suicidally divebomb themselves on U.S. military equipment.
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Stalin, Churchill, and Truman—as well as Attlee— gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany.
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One of the final stages of WWII, the second atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Japan.
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Hiroshima was the first place in Japan to recieve an Atomic bomb blast, and they took another one in Nagasaki before surrendering.
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The day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II
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Japanese foreign affairs minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on board USS Missouri.
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A series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II.
