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Bolshevik revolution
It was organised by radical Bolsheviks,overthrew the provisional goverment and placed their leader Lenin in power,who was supported by the soviets.The Bolsheviks began to call themselves the Communist Party. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
It was a peace treaty signed in Brest-Litovsk, by the Central Powers with the Republic of Ukraine and with Soviet Russia, which concluded hostilities between these countries during World War I. In the treaty, Russia renounced Finland, Poland, Estonia, Livonia, Lithuania, Lithuania, Ukraine and Bessarabia, which thereafter came under the rule and economic exploitation of the Central Empires. With this treaty, Germany reinforced the Western Front with Eastern troops. -
Paris Peace Conference
The Paris Peace Conference convened in January 1919 at Versailles. The conference was called to establish the terms of the peace after World War I. Though nearly thirty nations participated, the representatives of the United Kingdom, France, the United States, and Italy became known as the “Big Four.” The “Big Four” dominated the proceedings that led to the formulation of the Treaty of Versailles, a treaty that ended World War I. -
The Roaring Twenties
It was a period of economic prosperity that the United States had from 1922 to 1929, as part of the expansive period of an economic cycle.
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Mussolini rises to power
He founded the National Fascist Party in 1921,using paramilitary groups(Italian Combat Squad)to quash the workers movement.In 1922,the successfull intervention of the Italian Combat against the trade unions allowed Mussolini to claim power. -
Creation of the USSR
Lenin held the politcal power.In 1922 he created a political organisation called the Union Soviet Socialist Republics(USSR),made up of Russia and other Asian republics.It was organised as a federal state and adopted a New Economic Policy,which combined communist and capitalist policies.Thancks to this policy,the Soviet economy made a recovery -
Black Thursday
On October 24, 1929, the day that the fall on the New York Stock Exchange began, the worst financial crisis of the 20th century. Evidence of weak economy and artificial rise in stocks were the main ingredients of the collapse. That Thursday panic broke out, thousands of sales orders caused the inflated value of millions of securities to go off. The episode marked the beginning of the Great Depression, capitalism's biggest economic crisis -
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The Grat Deppresion
It was one of the biggest economic crises in history.The crisis spred from the Us to the rest of the world,affecting Europe and countries in Asia and America,it became a global crisis. -
Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany
He won the support of large part of the middle class.In the elecction of 1932,the Nazi Party received 13.8 million votes so Hitler was named Chancellor.of Germany.
He founded the Third Reich,through which he established a fierce dictatorship,prohibited trade unions and eliminated fundamental rights -
Japan invaded Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on 19 September 1932, 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 -
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New Deal
The New Deal is the economic plan established in the United States to kick off the Great Depression that was caused by the Crack of 29 and its devastating effects. This economic policy was devised by Roosevelt, the president of the United States, which was carried out in 1933, although it would last until 1938 -
Germany annexed the Czech región of Sudetenland
The German occupation of Czechoslovakia began with the German annexation of Sudetenland. Adolf Hitler justified the invasion by the purported suffering of the ethnic Germans living in these regions. The Sudetenland annexation by Nazi Germany was detrimental to the future defense of crippled Czechslovakia as the extensive Czechoslovak border fortifications were also located in the same area.This was an immediate cause of the Second World War. -
Germany invaded Poland
The German invasion of Poland was a military action by Nazi Germany aimed at annexing Polish territory. The technical operation, known as the 'White Case', began on 1 September 1939 and the last units of the Polish army surrendered on 6 October 1939. It was the trigger for World War II in Europe and ended with the Second Polish Republic. -
Italy annexed Albania
The Italian invasion of 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. Albania was rapidly overrun, its ruler, King Zog I, forced into exile, and the country made part of the Italian Empire.
