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Bolshevik revolution
leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Duma's provisional government. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers , that ended Russia's participation in World War I. -
Paris Peace Conference
also known as the Versailles Peace Conference, was the meeting in 1919 and 1920 of the victorious Allies after the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers. -
Creation of the USSR
The Soviet Union had its roots in the 1917 October Revolution, when the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government which had replaced the autocratic regime of Tsar Nicholas II during World War I. -
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The Roaring Twenties
The decade of the 1920s, especially in America, when economic growth, technological change, and the loosening of social codes encouraged a lively and uninhibited youth culture centered around the automobile, jazz music, and bootleg liquor. from 1922-1929 -
Mussolini rises to power
As Italy slipped into political chaos, Mussolini declared that only he could restore order and was given the authority in 1922 as prime minister. He gradually dismantled all democratic institutions. By 1925, he had made himself dictator, taking the title "Il Duce" ("the Leader") -
black thursday
a then-record number of shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange by panicked investors, marking the onset of the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression. -
The Great Deppresion
The Great Depression, also known as the Crisis of 1929, was a major global financial crisis that lasted throughout the 1930s, in the years before World War II. -
Japan invaded Manchuria
when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. After the war, the Japanese established the puppet state of Manchukuo. Their occupation lasted until the Soviet Union and Mongolia launched the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation in 1945. -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
President Paul von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues -
New Deal
It is the name given by the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt to his interventionist policy launched to fight the effects of the Great Depression in the United States. -
Germany annexed the Czech región of Sudetenland
The Sudetenland was assigned to Germany between 1 October and 10 October 1938. The Czech part of Czechoslovakia was subsequently invaded by Germany in March 1939, with a portion being annexed and the remainder turned into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia -
Germany invaded Poland
German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun. The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war -
Italy annexed Albania
was a brief military campaign by the Kingdom of Italy against the Kingdom of Albania. The conflict was a result of the imperialist policies of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
