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Bolshevik revolution
The Russian Revolution or the Bolshevik revolution was a social, political and economic movement that took place in Russia against the regime that currently ruled that country (the Tsarist regime) during the First World War.
The revolutionaries abolished the monarchy and implanted a government regime based on socialist or communist ideas, the result of this process was the creation of the Soviet Union, which lasted until 1991. -
The Brest-Litovsk Treaty.
The Brest-Litovsk Treaty, also called the Brest-Litovsk Peace, was a treaty signed by Russia, Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire in the city of Brest-Litvosk, the current city of Belarus that at the beginning of the 20th century belonged to the Russian empire.
This treaty ended Russia's participation in the First World War, and it would also lose many territories, although thanks to it, it was able to consolidate its government. -
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Paris Peace Conference
The Paris Peace Conference was the meeting in 1919 of the Allies after the armistice to agree on peace conditions with the countries of the Central Powers. The defeated countries were not allowed to attend these meetings, so those who decided the future of the defeated were the winning countries, which had different positions. -
Creation of the USSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was formed after the October Revolution of 1917. Its creation brought with it a time of economic prosperity and a new model of society.
The USSR, also known as the Soviet Union, was made up of four socialist republics: Russia, Transcaucasia, Ukraine, and Belarus. These countries approved the Creation Treaty and the Declaration of Creation, -
Mussolini rises to power
Benito Mussolini, the Leader of the National Fascist Party, assumed the position of Prime Minister of Italy in 1922, a position in which he held for more than twenty years. He encouraged the fascist revolution, and publicly affirmed the right of fascism to rule the country.
In addition, he was the one who led Italy during World War II, as part of his imperialist plans in Europe and Africa. -
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The Roaring Twenties
The roaring twenties corresponds to the period of economic prosperity that the United States had, as part of the expansive period of a business cycle. This prosperity benefited all of society and kept the economy growing at a rate that had not been recorded before. However, this prosperity would last for a short period that would end on October 24, 1929, known as Black Thursday. -
Black Thursday
The Black Thursday, the Black Monday and the Black Tuesday are the three phases often used to describe "the crash of 1929" which was the most catastrophic stock market crash in the history of the US stock market. This led to the 1929 crisis also known as the Great depression, that precipitated the spread of panic and the onset of unprecedented consequences and in the long term for the United States. -
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The Great Deppresion
The Great Depression was a major global financial crisis that lasted throughout the 1930s, in the years before World War II.
It was originated in the United States, from the crash of the New York Stock Exchange ( Black Thursday), and quickly spread to almost every country in the world.
Depression had devastating effects in almost every country, rich and poor, where insecurity and misery spread like an epidemic. -
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Japan invaded Manchuria
The "Operation Storm of August" which resulted in the invasion of Manchuria in the summer of 1945 by Japan, was the final blow that ended the Pacific War*. Without a doubt, this devastating large-scale offensive, which had the honour of being the last of the conflict, represented, together with the United States launching of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the main reason that wrote the end of the Second World War. -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
President Paul von Hindenburg named Hitler chancellor after a series of parliamentary elections and the ensuing backstage intrigues. The full power-law gave Hitler the ability to constitutionally exercise dictatorial power from then on and without legal objection.
It was partly helped by his desire to use violence to advance his political goals and to recruit members who shared this desire. -
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New Deal
New Deal 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.
This program was developed between 1933 and 1938 with the aim of sustaining the poorest layers of the population, reforming financial markets and revitalizing a US economy wounded since the crash of 1929 by unemployment and bankruptcies. -
Germany annexed the Czech región of Sudetenland
The Sudetenland, which had a predominately German population, was first incorporated into Czechoslovakia when new nation’s frontiers were drawn in 1918–19. The German occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945), then began with the German annexation of Sudetenland as outlined by the Munich Agreement. Adolf Hitler justified the invasion by the purported suffering of the ethnic Germans living in these regions, -
Germany invaded Poland
The German invasion of Poland was a military action by the Germany Nazi aimed at annexing the Polish territory without prior declaration of war. The technical operation was known as the "White Case". The last units of the Polish army surrendered on October 6 of that year. It was the trigger for the Second World War in Europe and ended the Second Polish Republic. -
Italy annexed Albania
The Italian invasion of Albania was a brief military campaign carried out by the Kingdom of Italy against the Kingdom of Albania. The conflict was the result of the imperialist policy of the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Albania was quickly invaded, its ruler, King Zog I, forced into exile, and the country became part of the Italian Empire as a separate kingdom in personal union with the Italian crown.
