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Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, ascended to the throne following the death of his father in 1894.
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The party split into two different factions.
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It began with the Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur.
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It is a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan.
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Unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were fired upon by soldiers.
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Einstein discovered that the speed of light is constant. Secondly, Einstein determined that space and time are not absolutes.
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The KMT was founded by Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat-sen shortly after the Xinhai Revolution of 1911.
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He became provisional President of China after it was declared a republic.
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It was a peace treaty between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers.
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The Czarist government collapsed and a provisional government was established.
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Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents.
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A conflict fought in Russia (1918–21) after the Revolution, between the Bolshevik Red Army and the counter-revolutionary White Russians.
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Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin led his leftist revolutionaries in a revolt against the ineffective Provisional Government.
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It was an international organization created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.
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It was an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing.
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It was the German republic (1919–33), founded at Weimar.
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Hitler had been secretly rearming Germany.
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The NEP returned the economy to pre-1914 levels and gave the Communist Party the breathing space it needed to survive.
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Hitler joined the party the year it was founded and became its leader in 1921.
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It was a military conference.
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Lenin had complete political control over the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Benito Mussolini became the leader of Italyin 1922.
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Russia proper joined its far-flung republics in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Hitler wrote a book in prison explaining his future plans for Germany.
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This plan was to reduce Germany’s annual reparation payments.
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In 1925, Chiang became leader of the KMT; a Chinese nationalist party.
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Hirohito was emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989.
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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.
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He became the first person to successfully fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone.
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The first Five Year Plan (1928-1932) was declared completed a year early.
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The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an agreement to outlaw war sometimes called the Pact of Paris.
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Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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The stockmarket crashed, it's known as Black Tuesday.
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday or the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
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The Japanese Kwangtung Army attacked Chinese troops in Manchuria.
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Roosevelt declares to a new deal for the American people.
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This is when Adolf Hitler was appointed German chancellor, setting in motion what would become the Nazi genocide against the Jews.
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Adolf Hitler was appointed as the chancellor of Germany by President Paul Von Hindenburg.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States.
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The Long March saved Mao Zedong and the Communist Party from the attacks by the Guomingdang.
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Congress passed the first Neutrality Act prohibiting the export of arms, ammunition, and implements of war.
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Italian armed forces invaded Ethiopia.
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Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland.
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Franco led a military fascist revolt against the Spanish republic,
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Benito Mussolini announced from the Milan cathedral that Germany and Italy had formed a Rome-Berlin Axis.
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The Great Purge was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin.
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A clash occurred between Chinese and Japanese troops near Peiping in North China.
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It was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Nanking.
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Hitler wanted all German-speaking nations in Europe to be a part of Germany.
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An agreement was made between Britain and Germany in 1938, under which Germany was allowed to extend its territory into parts of Czechoslovakia.
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Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier and Benito Mussolini signed the Munich Agreement which transferred the Sudetenland to Germany.
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Also known as "Night of Broken Glass" where the Nazis coordinated an attack on Jewish people and their property.
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Representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact.
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Germany invaded Poland and the Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.
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Warfare marked by a lack of aggression or progress.
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The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the largest of its kind established by the Nazi regime.
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Winston Churchill is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister.
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The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk on the Belgian coast ends as German forces capture the beach port.
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The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air superiority over the RAF,
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The government of France after Germany defeated and occupied it at the beginning of World War II.
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Axis powers are formed as Germany, Italy, and Japan become allies with the signing of the Tripartite Pact in Berlin.
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An act authorizing the President to sell, lease, or lend military hardware to any country
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It was Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.
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Hitler begins the killing of mass amounts of people.
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The Atlantic Charter was drafted at the Atlantic Conference.
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It was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base.
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After Japan attacks the U.S., President Franklin D. Roosevelt requests to declare war on them.
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It was a nazi extermination camp.
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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.
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The day after the surrender of the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese, the 75,000 Filipino and American troops captured on the Bataan Peninsula begin a forced march to a prison camp near Cabanatuan.
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The April 1942 air attack on Japan, launched from the aircraft carrier Hornet and led by Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle.
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It 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.
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President Roosevelt signed an order creating a secret project to develop the nuclear weapon.
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It was in the Pacific Theater of Operations and was one of the most important naval battles of World War II.
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A pitched battle in World War II resulting in a decisive Allied victory by British troops under Montgomery over German troops under Rommel.
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Nazi Army bombs the Soviet city of Stalingrad, launching one of the bloodiest battles in history.
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Island hopping was a strategy used in the Pacific theater whereby selected islands were secured by allied forces.
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It was the British-American invasion of French North Africa.
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The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater.
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The Casablanca Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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The Allies begin their invasion of Axis-controlled Europe with landings on the island of Sicily.
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It was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.
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This is also known as D-day.
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Kamikaze were Japanese suicide pilots who attacked Allied warships in the Pacific Ocean during the Second World War.
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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.
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It was 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.
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Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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It was 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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The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa.
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He was killed by partisans along with his mistress and other associates.
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Germany officially surrendered to the Allies, bringing an end to the European conflict in World War II.
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VE Day officially announced the end of World War Two in Europe.
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The big three met to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
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The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki.
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This day marks victory over Japan.
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Japan surrendered to the U.S.
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They were trials of Nazi leaders conducted after World War II.
