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Russia and Japan at war
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The Triple Entente is signed.
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The Kaiser sends a gunboat to Morocco.
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The Balkans.
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WWI
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Austria declares war on Serbia.
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Assassination at Sarajevo.
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Germany declares war on Russia.
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Battle of the Marnes
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Gas first used.
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German and Austrian troops advance into Russia.
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Gallipoli Campaign
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Lusitania.
American passenger liner is sunk by German U-Boat. -
Italy declares war on Autrio-Hungary.
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German troops invade Belgium.
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British conscription.
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Turnip winter.
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German attack on French at Verdun.
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The battle of Jutland.
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Battle of Somme.
20.000 killed on one day. A few kilometeres gained. -
Rasputin is murdered.
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Russia drops out of the war.
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Lenin arrives at Russia and declares his opposition to Kerensky.
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The Bolsheviks trie to get control of Russia but fail.
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Lenin rules Russia.
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First Russian Revolution
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The Tsar abdicates
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Usa enters on side of Allies.
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October revolution
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Battle of Cambrai.
Tanks were used and the Allies made significant advance. -
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Russian civil war.
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Treary of Bret-Litovsk.
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The Tsar and all his family are shot.
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Cease fire.
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The Weimar Republic: The governent of Germany.
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The Treaty of Versailles is signed.
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Prohibition in USA
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The Nazi party was born.
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Famine in Russia.
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Russian sailor mutiny.
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NEP.
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Black Friday.
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French occupation of the Ruhr
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The stresemann years.
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Hitler tries to take power. He fails and goes to prison.
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USA agrees to send money to Germany.
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Britain returns to the "Gold standard"
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Red Friday.
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Germany joins the League of Nations
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The SS is formed.
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General strike in Britain.
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Stalin gains complete control of Russia.
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Stalin's attack on the kullaks.
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First Five-year Plan.
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The Wall Street Crash.
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Collectivisation in Russia.
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Rearmament of Germany.
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The Salt March
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Germany leaves the League of Nations.
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Reichstag fire.
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The night of the long knives.
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Goering builds up the Luftwaffe (airforce)
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New Government of India Act.
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Olympic Games in Germany.
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Edward VIII avdicates and his brother becomes King George VI
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Reoccupation of the Rhineland
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Spanish Civil war.
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Japan joins the Anti-comintern pact.
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Stalin's purges.
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Japan invades China
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Anexation of Austria.
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Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland had been taken into Germany.
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Appeasement.
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The night of glass.
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The Nazi-Soviet pact.
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WWII
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Blitzkrieg tactics.
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The Phoney war.
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Churchill becomes Prime Minister.
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Fall of western Europe
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The battle of Britain for the control of the air.
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The Blitz
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France is attacked by the Germans.
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Dunkirk: Operation Dynamo
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Hitler's Final Solution.
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Italy attacks Greece.
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Operation Barbarossa.
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Russia counterattacks and drives Germans back.
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USA and Lend-Lease
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Japan attacks India.
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Jappan attacks the Americans at Pearl Harbor
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The Battle of the Coral Sea.
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The bombing of Germany
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Operation Torch
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Battle of Midway
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The Allies invade Sicily
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The Teheron conference.
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The bomb plot against Hitler.
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MacArthur invades the Philippines.
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The Normandy landings.
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Postdam meeting.
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Yalta conference.
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The end of the War.
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Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima
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Atomic bomb is dropped in Nagasaki
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Japan surrenders
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American containment Policy
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Marshal aid.
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The Cold War.
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The USSR is in control of half Europe
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War in Israel.
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NATO is formed.
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China becomes Communist.
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North Korean war
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North Korean troops invade South Korea.
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Vietnam Revolution
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Warsaw Pact
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The Suez crisis.
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Vietman war.
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The bay of pigs.
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The Berlin Wall
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The missile crisis
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The six days war.
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Terrorism at the Olympic Games at Munich
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Yom Kippurluar
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Indira Gandhi rules as a dictator.
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Palestinians in refugee camps are massacred.
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Indira Gandhi is assassinated
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Fall of the USSR