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Kuomintang was Created
officially the Kuomintang of China,[5] or sometimes romanized as Guomindang by its Pinyin transliteration, is the ruling political party in Taiwan. -
Czar Nicholas ll Became the Leader of Russia
As the ruler of Russia, Nicholas resisted calls for reform and sought to maintain czarist absolutism; although he lacked the strength of will necessary for such a task. -
Russian Marxists Split into Mensheviks & Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks claimed the name after getting their way in a wrangle over the editorial board of the Party newspaper Iskra.and The Mensheviks accepted the appellation. -
Russo-Japanese War Began
It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. -
Trans-Siberian Railway Built
The trans-siberian railway is a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan. -
Bloody Sunday in Russia
Unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard, approaching the city center and the Winter Palace from several gathering points. -
Albert Einstein Developed the Theory of Relativity
The theory of relativity, or simply relativity in physics, usually encompasses two theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity. -
Sun Yixin Became President of China
Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China. -
March Revolution in Russia
The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR. -
March Revolution in Russia
The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR -
Czar Nicholas ll Abdicated
During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place. -
The Bolshevik Revolution
Commonly referred to as Red October, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The treaty was forced on the Soviet government by the threat of further advances by German and Austrian forces. -
Russian Civil War Began
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. -
May Fourth Movement Began
anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4, 1919, protesting the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, especially allowing Japan to receive territories in Shandong which had been surrendered by Germany after the Siege of Tsingtao. -
Weimar Republic Established in Germany
the name given by historians to the federal republic and semipresidential representative democracy established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government. -
Adolf Hitler Defied the Treaty of Versailles
On the 12th September, 1919, Adolf Hitler became a member of this party, and at the first public meeting held in Munich, on 24th February, 1920, he announced the party's programme. -
The League of Nations was created
The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. -
New Economic Policy Enforced in Russia
The New Economic was an economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who called it "state capitalism". -
Washington Conference
The Washington Naval Conference, also called the Washington Arms Conference or the Washington Disarmament Conference, was a military conference called by President Warren G. -
Joseph Stalin became the Leader of the USSR
Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower. -
Benito Mussolini Became the Leader of Italy
On October 29, 1922, fascist leader Benito Mussolini was offered the Italian premiership amid political and social upheaval. -
Vladimir Lenin became the leader of Russia
Vladimir Lenin founded the Russian Communist Party, led the Bolshevik Revolution and was the architect of the Soviet state. -
Russia became the USSR
The majority faction of the Social Democratic Labour Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, then led a second revolution which overthrew the provisional government and established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, beginning a civil war between pro-revolution Reds and counter-revolution Whites. -
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
The day Sun Yat-sen died is when Jiang Jieshi took over and became the leader. -
Adolf Hitler Wrote Mein Krampf
Mein Krampf is an autobiographical manifesto by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, in which he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. -
Rome-Berlin Axis
The Roman Berlin axis became a military alliance -
Hirohito Became the Emperor of Japan
the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death in 1989. -
Civil War in China Began
The Chinese Civil War was a civil war in 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 -
Charles Lindbergh's Solo Flight Across the Atlantic
On May 21, 1927, the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Five-Year Plan Began
A list of economic goals, created by General Secretary Joseph Stalin and based off his policy of Socialism in One Country. -
Great Depression Began
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. -
Stock Market Crashed in the U.S.
America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression (1929-39), the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world up to that time. -
Japan Invaded Manchuria
the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
Adolf Hitler Became the Chancellor of Germany
This appointment was made in an effort to keep Hitler and the Nazi Party “in check”; however, it would have disastrous results for Germany and the entire European continent. -
The New Deal Started
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) became President of the U.S.
American lawyer and statesman who served as the 32nd President of the United States, known to be the only president to serve more than 8 years. -
Adolf Hitler Became the Leader of the Nazi Party
To maintain the supposed purity and strength of a postulated "Aryan master race", the Nazis sought to exterminate or impose exclusionary segregation upon "degenerate" and "asocial" groups -
The Long March
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. -
U.S. Congress Passed the Neutrality Acts
The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. -
Italy invaded Ethiopia
The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire -
Germany Reoccupied the Rhineland
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. -
Francisco Franco Led a Fascist Revolt in Spain
The war was fought between the Republicans, who were loyal to the democratically elected Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists, a rebel group led by General Francisco Franco. -
Great Purge Began
The Great Purge was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1934 to 1939. -
Japan Invaded China
China fought Japan with some economic help from Germany , the Soviet Union and the United States. -
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
the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938. -
Adolf Hitler took the Sudentenland
The Sudetenland is the German name to refer to those northern, southwest, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited mostly by German speakers, specifically the border districts of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts of Silesia located within Czechoslovakia. -
Hitler Hosted Munich Conference
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined. -
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
By signing this pact, Germany had protected itself from having to fight a two-front war in the soon-to-begin World War II; the Soviet Union was awarded land, including parts of Poland and the Baltic States. -
Germany Invaded Poland (Blitzkrieg)
At 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. -
Sitzkrieg Began
The Phoney War was a phase early in World War II that was marked by a lack of major military operations by the Western Allies (the United Kingdom and France) against the German Reich. -
Winston Churchhill Became the Prime Minister of GB
Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. -
Auschwitz Death Camp Opened
a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. -
Allies Evacuate Dunkrik
The operation became necessary when large numbers of British, French, and Belgian troops were cut off and surrounded by the German army during the Battle of France in World War II. -
Battle of Britain
Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. -
Vichy Government Established in France
France under the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain from the Nazi German defeat of France to the Allied liberation in World War II. -
Tripartite Pact Signed
Tripartite was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany which established the Axis Powers of World War II. -
Lend-Lease Act
The lend-lease act was a program under which the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel -
Operation Barbarossa
the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. -
Atlantic Charter
The Charter stated the ideal goals of the war: no territorial aggrandizement; no territorial changes made against the wishes of the people; restoration of self-government to those deprived of it; reduction of trade restrictions; global cooperation to secure better economic and social conditions for all; freedom from fear and want; freedom of the seas; and abandonment of the use of force, as well as disarmament of aggressor nations. -
Chelmo Concentrationn Camp Opened
Consisted of two parts, barrecks and storage for plundered goods. -
Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor
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 in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. -
The U.S. Declared War on Japan
On December 8, 1941 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. -
The Holocaust Began
Of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust, approximately two-thirds were killed. -
Nisei were Interned in Relocation Centers in the U.S.
Allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones," from which "any or all persons may be excluded." -
Hitler enacted the Final Solution
Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to systematically exterminate the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe, which resulted in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe. -
Bataan Death March
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. -
Doolittle Raids Over Japan
an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II, the first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
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 Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war. -
Battle of El Alamein
The Battle of El Alamein, fought in the deserts of North Africa, is seen as one of the decisive victories of World War Two. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
The landing at Guadalcanal was unopposed - but it took the Americans six months to defeat the Japanese in what was to turn into a classic battle of attrition. -
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
major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union. -
Operation Torch
the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War. -
Casablanca Conference
The conference agenda addressed the specifics of tactical procedure, allocation of resources and the broader issues of diplomatic policy. -
Allies landed in Sicily
codenamed Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis Powers -
Mussolini was Executed
Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. -
Island Hopping Campaign
The idea was to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions and instead concentrate the limited Allied resources on strategically important islands that were not well defended but capable of supporting the drive to the main islands of Japan. -
Tehran Conference
strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. -
Operation Overlord (D Day)
A 12,000-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving almost 7,000 vessels. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel. -
Kamikaze Pilots Appear in the Pacific
suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy warships more effectively than was possible with conventional attacks. -
Gen. Macarthur Returned to the Philippines (Leyte Gulf)
A few hours after his troops landed, MacArthur waded ashore onto the Philippine island of Leyte. That day, he made a radio broadcast in which he declared, "People of the Philippines, I have returned!" -
Battle of the Bulge
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
The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
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
fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II. -
Hitler Committed Suicide
Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin -
Germany Surrendered
On this day in 1945, the German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France. -
V-E Day
formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Potsdam Conference
The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima
A second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender. -
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki
On this day in 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender -
V-J Day
Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. -
Japan Surrendered
USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan formally surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II. -
Nuremberg Trials
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.
