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Trans-Siberian railway built
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Czar Nicholas II became the leader of Russia
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adolf hitler became the leader of the nazi party
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Russian Marxists split into Mensheviks & Bolsheviks
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Russo-Japanese War began
ollowing the Russian rejection of a Japanese plan to divide Manchuria and Korea into spheres of influence, Japan launches a surprise naval attack against Port Arthur, a Russian naval base in China -
Bloody sunday in russia
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Sun yixian became president of china
a Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China -
kuomintang was created
current ruling political party in Republic of China -
albert einstein developed the theory of relativity
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march revolution in russia
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Marchrevolution in russia
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czar nicholas II abdicated
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russian civil war began
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the bolshevik revolution
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The League of Nations was created
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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weimar republic established in germany
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may fourth movement
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New Economic Policy enforced in Russia
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Washington Conference
meeting between representatives of 9 nations with interests in the Pacific -
Joseph Stalin became the Leader of the Ussr
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Benito Mussolini became the leader of Italy
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russia became the ussr
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Dawes Plan started
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Jiang Jieshi became the leader of the Kuomintang
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Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf
Hitler never actually sat down and pecked at a typewriter or wrote longhand -
hirohito became the emperor of japan
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civil war in china began
fought between forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China led by the Kuomintang (KMT) and forces of the Communist Party of China -
charles lindbergh's solo fight across the atlantic
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five year plan began
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Kellogg-Briand Pact signed
international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve problems -
Great Depression began
tragedy that placed millions of Americans out of work -
stock Market crashed in the U.S.
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Japan invaded Manchuria
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japan invaded china
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the holocaust began
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Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of germany
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franklin d. roosevelt became president of the u.s.
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the new deal started
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The Long March
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italy invaded ethipoia
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Adolf Hitler Defied the Treaty of Versailles
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germany reoccupied the rhineland
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francisco franco led a fascist revolt in spain
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Great Purge began
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Rome-Berlin Axis
formed between italy and Germany -
rape of nankin
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Anschluss
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Hitler hosted Munich Conference
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Adolf Hitler took the sudetenland
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Kristallnacht Began
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Nazi-soviet pact signed
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Germany invaded Poland (Blitzkreig)
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Sitzkreig began
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auschwitz death camp opened
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winston churchill became the prime minister of GB
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allies evacuate dunkirk
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vichy government established in france
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Battle of Britain
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Tripartite pact signed
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Lend-Lease Act
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operation barbarossa
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hitler enacted the final solution
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Atlantic charter
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us congress passed the neutrality acts
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Chelmno concentration camp opened
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japanese attacked pearl harbor
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The U.S. declared war on Japan
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Chelmno Concentraction Camp Opened
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nisei were interned in relocation centers in the us
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doolittle raids over japan
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Battle of Coral Sea
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V-E day
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Manhattan Project began
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Battle of Midway
most important naval battles of World War II -
Battle of Guadalcanal
Series of World War II land and sea clashes between allied japanese forces on and around Guadalcanal -
battle of stalingrad
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 -
battle of el alamein
occurred in North Africa in Egypt in and around an area named after a railway stop called El Alamein -
operation torch
British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War -
Bataan Death March
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Casablanca Conference
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Battle of Okinawa
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Alles landed in sicily
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island hopping campaign
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tehran conference
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Operation Overload (D Day)
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gen. macarthur returned to the philippines
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Kamikaze pilots appear in the -pacific
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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
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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Mussolini was executed
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hitler commited suicide
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germany surrendered
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potsdam conference
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atomic bomb dropped in hiroshima
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atomic bomb dropped on nagasaki
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V-J Day
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japan surrendered
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Nuremberg trials
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vladimir lenin became the leader of russia
