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Czar Nicholas became the leader of Russia
Nicholas II was the last Emperor of Russia, -
Marxists split into two Menssheviks & Bolshviks
Karl Marx's followers split into two different groups because of a difference in opinion. -
Russo-Japanese War began
This war grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russia and 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. It is the longest railway line in the world. -
Albert Einstein Developed the Therory of Reletivity
The theory of relativity usually encompasses two theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity. -
Bloody Sunday in Russia
Bloody Sunday was the name that came to be given to the events of 22 January 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, where 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. -
Sun Yixian becomes President of China
Sun Yat-sen was a Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China. -
Kuomintang was created
The Party was initially founded on August 25, 1912, by Sun Yat-sen but dissolved in November 1913. It reformed on October 10th 1919, again led by Sun Yat-sen, and became the ruling party in China. -
MArch Revolution in Russia
This was a revolution focused around Petrograd. Members of the Imperial parliament or Duma assumed control of the country, forming the Russian Provisional Government. -
March Revolution in Russia
This was a revolution focused around Petrograd. Members of the Imperial parliament or Duma assumed control of the country, forming the Russian Provisional Government. -
Czar Nicholas is 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. -
Vladimir Lenin becomes leader of Russia
Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as the leader of the Russian SFSR from 1917, and then concurrently as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1922, until his death. -
The Bolshevik Revolution
The Bolshevik Revolution, was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. -
Russian Cival War begins
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers which ended Russia's participation in World War I. -
May Fourth movement began
The May Fourth Movement was an 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. -
Weimar Republic established in Germany
The Weimar Republic was a weak, untrusted government set up in 1919 to replace the imperial form of government. It lasted only 14 years. -
Hitler became the leader of Nazi Party
The Nazi Party was a political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945. -
Russia came to the USSR
The USSR was a socialist state that existed between 1922 and 1991, governed as a single-party state by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital. -
New Economic Policy in Russia
The NEP represented a more capitalism-oriented economic policy, deemed necessary after the Russian Civil War of 1917 to 1922, to foster the economy of the country, which was almost ruined. -
Benito Mussolini became leader of Italy
Mussolini was the leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped democracy and set up dictatorship. -
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. -
Adolf HItler wrote Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf is an autobiographical manifesto by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, in which he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany -
Jiang Jieshi Became the leader of the kuomintang
He was an influential member in Kuomintang -
Hirohito became emprorer of Japan
Hirohito was the emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989. He was the longest-reigning monarch in Japan's history. -
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. -
Five year plan begins
The Five-Year Plan was a series of nation-wide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union. -
Kellogg-Briand pact signed
The countries who signed agreed not to use war to solve disputes or conflicts. Germany, France, And the United States were the countries who signed it. -
Great Depression began
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. -
Stock Market Crash in the US
Black Tuesday is the day that the stock market crashed, officially setting off the Great Depression. Unemployment skyrocketed--a quarter of the workforce was without jobs by 1933 and many people became homeless. -
Japan invaded China
The Japanese Kwantung Army occupied Manchuria, a Chinese province, using as a pretext a faked incident on the main railroad. -
Japan invaded Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began when the Kwantung Army of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
The New Deal started
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938. They were a reaction to the Great Depression. -
The Holocost began
The Holocaust refers to the period from January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe officially ended. During this time, Jews in Europe were subjected to progressively harsher persecution that ultimately led to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews and the destruction of 5,000 Jewish communities. -
Adlof Hitlker became Chancelor of Germany
President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, as chancellor of Germany. -
FDR becomes President
Roosevelt was an American statesman who served as the 32nd President of the United States. He was elected for four consecutive terms, and remains the only president ever to serve more than eight years. -
Great Purge began
The Great Purge was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1934 to 1939. -
The Legue 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. -
Hitler Defied Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty had said he could only have an army of 100,000 men. Hitler built up his army in secret. He broke the treaty in many other ways as well. -
US Congress passeed 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. They were put in place to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts -
Italy invaded Ethiopia
On October 3, 1935, Italy attacked Ethiopia without a declaration of war. Four days later, the League of Nations declared Italy an aggressor, but as usual, took no action against the country. -
Germany reoccupied Rhineland
Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland. -
Franscio Franco led a fascists revolt in Spain
n October 1936, Franco was appointed generalissimo of Nationalist Spain and head of state. In November 1936, Nazi Germany and Fascist Spain recognised Franco as the legitimate ruler of Spain. His government was recognised as legitimate by the French and the British in February 1939. In April 1939, America recognised Franco as head of Spain. -
Rome Berlin Axis
Germany and Italy announced a Rome-Berlin Axis one week after signing a treaty of friendship. -
Rape of Nanking
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 Anschluss was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938. -
Mussolini wa excecuted
Benito Mussolini was shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as attempted to flee to Switzerland. -
Hitler hosted the Munich Conference
Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sign the Munich Pact, which seals the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace. -
Kristallnacht Began
Kristallnacht was a pogrom against Jews in Germany and parts of Austria on November 9th and 10th. -
Manhatten Project begins
The Manhattan Project was a research project that produced the first atomic bombs in World War II. -
Joseph Stalin becomes leader of USSR
After Lenin died in 1924, Stalin eventually outmaneuvered his rivals and won the power struggle for control of the Communist Party. By the late 1920s, he had become dictator of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union Under Joseph Stalin -
Adolf Hitler took Sudetenland
Hitler's forces invaded and occupied Czechoslovakia. -
Nazi Soviet Pact signed
Representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. -
Germany Invaded Poland (Blitzkrieg)
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun. -
Sitzkrieg began
This period of eight months of relative inactivity on the Western Front between September 1939 and May 1940 was also variously known as “the Phony War”, “the Twilight War” and “the Bore War”. -
Winston Churchill became the Prime Minister of Russia
On the outbreak of the Second World War, he was again appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. Following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain on 10 May 1940, Churchill became Prime Minister. -
Auschwitz death camp opened
Auschwitz concentration camp was 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 Dunkirk
The Dunkirk evacuation was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the 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
Vichy France was France during the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain, during World War II, from the German victory in the Battle of France to the Allied liberation. -
Tripartite Signed
The Tripartite Pact was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II. -
Lend-Lease Act
Lend-Lease was a program under which the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR,China, France, and other Allied nations with material between 1941 and August 1945. -
Opporation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. -
Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. -
Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued early in World War II defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. -
US declared war on japan
After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7th 1941, the US decided to declare war on Japan. -
Chelmno Concentration Camp Opened
The Chelmno concentration camp was built to exterminate Jews of the Lodz Ghetto and the local Polish inhabitants of Warthegau. -
Hitler enacted the Final Solution
The Final Solution was 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. -
Nisei were entered in relocation centers
Japanese American internment was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States. -
Bataan death March
The Bataan Death March was 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. -
Doolittle Raids over Japan
The April 1942 air attack on Japan, led by Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle, was the most daring operation yet undertaken by the United States in the Pacific War. Though conceived as a diversion that would also boost American and allied morale, the raid generated strategic benefits that far outweighed its limited goals. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Japanese Navy, and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. -
Battle of El Alamein
There were two battles of El Alamein in World War II, both fought in 1942.The Battles occurred in North Africa in Egypt in and around an area named after a railway stop called El Alamein. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
Fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was 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. -
Opporation Torch
Operation Torch was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of WWII. -
Casablanca Conference
The Casablanca Conference was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, then a French protectorate, from January 14 to 24, 1943, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. -
Washington Conference
The Washington Conference was held in Washington, D.C. was a World War II strategic meeting from May 12 to May 27, 1943, between the heads of government of the United Kingdom and the United States. -
Allies landed in Sicily
The Allied invasion of Sicily was a major World War II campaign in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis Powers. -
Island Hopping Campaign
Island hopping was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II. 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
The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. It was held in the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran and was the first of the World War II conferences held between all of the "Big Three". -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was one of the most important naval battles of World War II. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Operation Overlord
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. -
Kamikaze Pilots Appear in the Pacific
Kamikazes were 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 Phillippines
After advancing island by island across the Pacific Ocean, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur wades ashore onto the Philippine island of Leyte, fulfilling his promise to return to the area he was forced to flee in 1942. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the Ardennes region of Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
The Long March
"The March" refers to a series of forced marches during the final stages of the Second World War in Europe. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was 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. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The 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
The 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. -
Hitler commited suicide
Hitler committed suicide by gunshot along with his wife who ingested cyanide in his Fuhrerbunker. -
Germany Surrendered
Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945. -
Attomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
A uranium gun-type atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. -
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. -
V-J day
Victory over Japan Day is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II. -
Japan Surrenderd
The surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, brought the hostilities of World War II to a close -
Nuremburg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials were 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. -
Charles Lindberghs Solo FLight across Atlantic
Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
