-
Period: to
World History B Events
-
creation of hindu indian national congress
From its foundation on 28 December 1885, the Indian National Congress was the largest and most prominent Indian public organization, and central and defining influence of the Indian Independence Movement. -
Czar Nicholas II
Nicholas II ruled from 1894 until his abdication on 2 March 1917. His reign saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse -
Marxist Split
Bolsheviks were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction[3] at the Second Party Congress in 1903. -
Russo-Japanese war
From 1904 to 1905 the war was fought by Russia and Japan over their interests in China (particularly Manchuria) and Korea-areas of strategic importance to each country. Before fighting broke out Japan moved to settle the conflict, but the overture was rejected by Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918), and Japan soon severed all diplomatic relations (on February 6, 1904) with Russia. -
bloody sunday
On the Sunday, January 22, striking workers and their families gathered at six points in the city of St. Petersburg in Russia. They were organised and led by Father Gapon. Holding religious icons and singing hymns and patriotic songs (particularly "God Save the czar!"), a crowd of "more than 3,000"proceeded without police interference towards the Winter Palace, the Tsar's official residence -
creation of the duma
The Duma (or parliament) was created in 1905 after Bloody Sunday in order to appease the citizens of Russia. -
creation of the muslim league
was a political party which advocated the creation of a separate Muslim-majority nation, Pakistan. It emerged from the Aligarh Movement, formed originally to promote a modern education for Muslims. It was founded by the All India Muhammadan Educational Conference at Dhaka. -
meeting of the first duma
The First Duma was meant to have been a consultative body. Many interpreted the October Manifesto as being conciliatory and as if to emphasise the conciliatory nature of the government an amnesty was granted to all political figures except to those who had taken part in revolutionary activities. -
june 28th
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand -
WW1 begins
which began in central Europe in late July 1914, included intertwined factors, such as the conflicts and hostility of the four decades leading up to the war. Militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism played major roles in the conflict as well. The immediate origins of the war, however, lay in the decisions taken by statesmen and generals during the Crisis of 1914, casus belli for which was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife by Gavrilo Princip, an irre -
march revolution
March Revolution Against the background of a revolutionary situation existing since 1847 and increasingly worsened by the outbreak of a cyclic economic crisis, the German March revolution began in the wake of and as the immediate consequence of the Parisian February revolution. On account of the fragmentation of the country into states, the lack of a national center, the revolution had the character of isolated, yet reciprocally affecting uprisings in the individual German lands -
lenins return
After his exile ended in 1900, Lenin went to Western Europe, where he continued his revolutionary activity. It was during this time that he adopted the pseudonym Lenin. In 1902, he published a pamphlet entitled What Is to Be Done?, which argued that only a disciplined party of professional revolutionaries could bring socialism to Russia. In 1903, he met with other Russian Marxists in London and established the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party (RSDWP). However, from the start, there was a -
november revolution
The revolution of November 1918 was a
consequence of the military defeat
of the German Empire
in the First World War and was triggered by the naval mutiny at the
beginning of November 1918
.
Within only a few days this insu
rgency spread throughout the Empire with no appreciable resistance
from the old order. It developed into a mass move
ment against the monarchical system as the working
classes joined forces with the troops. -
russian civil war
was 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. Many foreign armies warred against the Red Army, notably the Allied Forces and the pro-German armies. The Red Army defeated the White Armed Forces of South Russia in Ukraine and the army led by Aleksandr Kolchak in Siberia in 1919. -
WW1 ends
he Versailles Treaty, signed on June 28, 1919, was the peace settlement between Germany and the Allied Powers that officially ended World War I. However, the conditions in the treaty were so punitive upon Germany that many believe the Versailles Treaty laid the groundwork for the eventual rise of Nazis in Germany and the eruption of World War II. -
rowlatt acts
legislation passed by the Imperial Legislative Council, the legislature of British India. The acts allowed certain political cases to be tried without juries and permitted internment of suspects without trial. -
amritsar massacre
In Amritsar, India's holy city of the Sikh religion, British and Gurkha troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators meeting at the Jallianwala Bagh, a city park. Most of those killed were Indian nationalists meeting to protest the British government's forced conscription of Indian soldiers and the heavy war tax imposed against the Indian people. -
civil disobedience
first target is the British monopoly on the manufacture and sale of salt, and he leads a 250-mile march to the sea, where he and thousands of protestors violate the law by making their own salt -
ghandi's salt march
leads a 250-mile march to the sea, where he and thousands of protestors violate the law by making their own salt -
kemal mustafa
he led the Turkish national movement in the Turkish War of Independence. Having established a provisional government in Ankara, he defeated the forces sent by the Allies -
reza shah pahlavi
Reza Shah deposed Ahmad Shah Qajar, the last Shah of the Qajar dynasty, and founded the Pahlavi dynasty. He established a constitutional monarchy that lasted until overthrown in 1979 during the Iranian Revolution. Reza Shah introduced many social, economic, and political reforms during his reign, ultimately laying the foundation of the modern Iranian state. -
Mussolini seizes power
Mussolini seized total power as dictator and ruled Italy as Il Duce ("the leader") from 1930 to 1943. Mussolini was one of the key figures in the creation of fascism. -
october 29th
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday[1] and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States -
Japan attacks Manchuria
ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1931 Japan launched an attack on Manchuria. Within a few days Japanese armed forces had occupied several strategic points in South Manchuria. -
Hitler
The Enabling Act (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz) was a 1933 constitutional amendment that played a critical role in the rise of Adolf Hitler to become the dictator and Führer of Nazi Germany by August, 1934. It passed in the Reichstag and signed by President Paul von Hindenburg on 23 March 1933 -
government of india act
Bengal was constituted an autonomous province in 1937. This remained the situation until the Indian subcontinent was partitioned into the two dominions of Pakistan and India after the British withdrawal in 1947 -
persia/turkey
Gandhi organized a demonstration to defy the hated Salt Acts. To show opposition, him and his followers walked about 240 miles to the seacoast to make their own salt. It was one of their many peacful protests. -
Italy invades Ethiopia
The aim of invading Ethiopia was to boost Italian national prestige. the League of Nations was faced with another crucial test. Benito Mussolini, the Fascist leader of Italy, had adopted Adolf Hitler's plans to expand German territories by acquiring all territories it considered German -
saudi arabia
Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud became leader and renamed the kingdom from Arabia, to Saudi Arabia, and carried on Arab and Islamic traditions and brought some modern technology -
german acts of agression
In violation of the Versailles Treaty, Germany occupies the Rhineland. -
invasion of china
The Japanese invaded China proper, launching the Second Sino-Japanese War. (July 1937). The Japanese Kwantung Army turned a small incident into a full-scale war. Chinese forces were unable to effectively resist the Japanese. -
broken glass
On the night of November 9, 1938, violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned, set off by Germans' anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager. -
german acts of agression
England and France agree to allow Hitler to annex the Sudentland, part of Czechoslovakia. The Czechs do not agree. Hitler takes it anyway. -
german acts of agression
1938-Germany enters Austria and "anschluss" (union) is announced. There were many Germans in Austria and for the most part, the German army had little or on resistance -
WW1 starts invasion of Poland
The morning after the Gleiwitz incident, German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west. As the Germans advanced, Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish–German border to more established lines of defence to the east. After the mid-September Polish defeat in the Battle of the Bzura, the Germans gained an undisputed advantage. -
rescue at Dunkirk
The Dunkirk evacuation, commonly known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, code-named Operation Dynamo by the British, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and the early hours of 4 June 1940, because the British, French, and Belgian troops were cut off by the German army during the Battle of Dunkirk in the Second World War -
france surrenders
In the Second World War, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the successful German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, defeating primarily French forces. -
germany attacks soviet union
The destruction of the Soviet Union by military force, the permanent elimination of the perceived Communist threat to Germany, and the seizure of prime land within Soviet borders for long-term German settlement had been a core policy of the Nazi movement since the 1920s. Adolf Hitler had always regarded the German-Soviet nonaggression pact -
december 7th
Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. -
battle of guadalcanal
took place in 1942 when the US Marines landed on August 7th. 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. -
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. Prior to this action, Japan possessed general naval superiority over the United States and could usually choose where and when to attack. -
invasion of sicily
germans used this as a stepping stool to take over italy. -
february 2, stalingrad
stalin told his troops to not surrender or give up on the Germans forces. the germans airforce basically came in and destroyed 90% of the city -
d-day
June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy -
ve day
Victory in Europe Day—known as V-E Day or VE Day—was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (in Commonwealth countries, 7 May 1945) to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe. -
vj day
Victory over Japan Day (also known as Victory in the Pacific Day, V-J Day, or V-P Day) is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, effectively ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event.
