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First avant-gardet artist (Europe and the world)
Henri Matisse was one of the most representative artists of this "movement ", became the fundamental reference point for most of the Fauves. He admired artists like Van Gogh, he loved Moorish fabrics, African art and Japanese art. A reflection of this interest in the Arab world and its sensual environments are the works that it performs during its trip to North Africa as Zorah on the terrace 1912: -
Battel of Tannenberg (Europe and the world)
The Battle of Tannenberg of 1914 confronted the Russian and German empires at the beginning of the First World War, near the town of Allenstein in eastern Prussia. This clash proved to be of considerable importance in the Great War, and took place from 26 to 30 August 1914. -
1st battle of the Marne (Europe and the world)
The Battle of the Marne (also known as the Miracle of the Marne) was a battle of the First World War that took place between 5 and 12 September 1914. The result was an Allied victory over the German army. 1 The battle was the maximum point of the German advance in France and of the persecution to which it subjected to the allied armies after the battles of the borders of August and which reached the outskirts of Paris. -
Murder in Sarajevo (Europe and the world)
The attack of Sarajevo is the term with which the assassination is known, on June 28, 1914, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and his wife, the Duchess Sofia Chotek, in Sarajevo, capital of the Imperial province of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The attack was perpetrated by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Bosnian youth group. Movement whose objective was the emancipation of Bosnia from Austria-Hungary, which was supported by the military and intelligence circles in the kingdom of Serbia. -
Battle of the Somme (Europe and the world)
The Battle of the Somme of 1916 was one of the longest and bloodiest of the First World War, with more than a million casualties between the two sides. British and French forces tried to break the German lines along a forty-kilometer front to the north and south of the Somme River in northern France. The main purpose of the battle was to distract the German troops from the Battle of Verdun; However, the casualties of the Battle of the Somme ended up being superior to those of the latter. -
Battle of Verdun (Europe and the world)
The Battle of Verdun, delivered from February 21 to December 18, 1916, was the largest and longest battle of the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies. The battle took place in the hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse, in northeastern France. The 5th German Army attacked the defenses of the fortified region of Verdun and those of the second French Army on the right bank of the Meuse. -
The right of women over the age of 30 to vote; United Kingdom (Europe and the world)
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February Revolution (Russia)
The Revolution of February 1917 in the Russian Empire marked the first stage of the Russian Revolution of 1917. It caused the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, ended the Russian monarchy and led to the formation of an interim government. This revolution was born as a reaction to the policy of the Tsar, his refusal to grant liberalizing political reforms and Russia's participation in World War I. -
USA joins the war (Europe and the world)
The United States finally entered the war as Britain's allies in April 1917, after Germany announced that all ships carrying supplies to their enemies would be sunk by German submarines, which had already sunk several Commercial ships. -
October Revolution (Russia)
The October Revolution It was the second phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, after the February revolution.The date 25 October 1917 corresponds to the Julian calendar in force in Tsarist Russia, then abolished by the new Bolshevik government. -
2nd battle of Marne (Europe and the world)
The Second Battle of the Marne or Battle of Reims 1918 was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during the First World War. The attack failed when an Allied counterattack led by the French and American forces, equipped with several hundred tanks, thwarted the German right flank, causing serious casualties. The German defeat marked the beginning of the unrelenting Allied advance, which ended in the armistice signed with the German Empire about a hundred days later. -
CPSU (Russia)
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the only legal political party in the Soviet Union, and one of the largest communist organizations in the world. It lost its dominance following the failed attempted coup d'etat of August 1991 commanded by a group of PAAO of the so-called hard line. -
Teatry of Brest-Litovsk (Russia)
It was a peace treaty signed in 1918 in the Belarusian city of Brest-Litovsk between the German Empire, Bulgaria, the Austro Empire, the Ottoman Empire and Soviet Russia. In the Treaty, Russia renounced Finland, Poland, Estonia, Livonia, Courland, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Bessarabia, which thereafter remained under the Dominion and economic exploitation of central empires. -
Execution of the tsar and his family (Europe and the world)
In Yekaterinburg, Nicholas and his family were really prisoners and were treated as such.
The chief of the Red military reported that the Czech armies had already reached the south of the city and that Yekaterinburg could fall in three days. Hearing this, and fearing that the Romanovs were liberated, the Soviet decided to shoot the whole family as soon as possible and destroy the evidence of the fact. -
Armistice (Europe and the world)
In the war, an armistice is the suspension of hostilities agreed between peoples or belligerent armies. According to the Hague Convention of 1899, it suspends the operations of war by a mutual agreement of the belligerent. Peace not the Armistice is considered the end of war; Therefore, this will only be terminated when the causes that had been casus belli were considered fixed. All armistice must be officially notified and in useful time to the competent authorities and to the tropos. -
Treaty of Versalles League of Nations (Europe and the worlds)
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed in the City of Versailles at the end of the First World War by more than fifty presen. This treaty officially ended with the state of war between the Germany of the second Reich and the allies of the First World War. It was signed on June 28, 1919 in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles. -
Creation of the USSR (Russia)
The Soviet Union, officially called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a Marxist-Leninist republic that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991. Although formally constituted a federation of 15 republics, its political and economic system was de facto strongly centralistic, with a single party political system dominated by the Communist Party up to 1990.
