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