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Russo Japanese war began
After discussions broke down in 1904, the Japanese Navy attacked the Russian eastern fleet at Port Arthur. -
Bloody sunday in Russia
Massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia, of peaceful demonstrators marking the beginning of the violent phase of the Russian Revolution of 1905. -
Albert Eistein developed the Theory of Relativity
He developed the theory of relativity. -
Trans Siberian Railroad built
The trans siberian railroad was built to transport things during the war. -
March Revolution in Russia
Government corruption was rampant, the Russian economy remained backward, and Nicholas repeatedly dissolved the Duma, the Russian parliament established after the 1905 revolution, when it opposed his will. -
The Bolshevik Revolution
By 1917, most Russians had lost faith in the leadership ability of Czar Nicholas II. -
Vladimir Lenin became the leader of Russia
After the revolution, Lenin headed the new Soviet government that formed in Russia. -
Treaty of Brest Litovisk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia (the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey), which ended Russia's participation in World War I. -
Weimar Repulic Established in Germany
The Weimar Republic, proclaimed on November 9, 1918, was born in the throes of military defeat and social revolution. -
May Fourth Movement Began
The May Fourth Movement was an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing. -
League of nations was created
The league of nations was founded. -
New economic policy enforced in Russia
Lenin introduced the Tax in Kind policy. -
Washington Conference
The Washington Naval Conference, also called the Washington Arms Conference or the Washington Disarmament Conference, was a military conference called by President Warren G. Harding. -
Benito Mussolini became the leader of Italy
Benito Mussolini was offered the Italian premiership. -
Sun Yixian Became President of China
1st July 1923: Sun Yat-Sen, the Chinese revolutionary born near Canton, became provisional President of China. -
Joseph Stalin leader of USSR
Joseph stalin took control of the soviet uniion. -
Dawes plan started
Made to evacuate the Ruhr area by Allied occupation groups. -
Jiang Jieshi became the leader of the KMT
Jiang Jieshi became the leader of the Kuomintang after the original leader, Sun Yat Sen, died. -
Hitler Wrote Mein Kompf
Hitler wrote mein kampf during the war. -
Civil war in China begins
The Chinese Civil War [nb 2] was a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China led by the Kuomintang (KMT) and forces of the Communist Party of China. -
Charles limdberg's solo flight across the Atlantic
On May 21, 1927, the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Five year plan began
The First Five-Year Plan, or 1st Five-Year Plan, of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a list of economic goals. -
Kellogg Briand Pact Signed
The Kellogg–Briand Pact (also called the Pact of Paris, formal name: General Treaty for the Renunciation of War) was signed on August 27, 1928 by the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Japan, and a number of other states. -
Stock Market Crash in the U.S.
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday or the Stock Market Crash of 1929. -
Great Depression Began
The Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Japan invaded Manchuria
In September 1931, they claimed that Chinese soldiers had sabotaged the railway, and attacked the Chinese army. -
Hitler Enacted the Final Solution
Hitler tries to exterminate the Jews. -
The Holocaust began
The Holocaust was the mass killing of many jews. -
The New Deal Started
On March 4, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt delivered his first inaugural address before 100,000 people on Washington's Capitol Plaza. -
The long march
The Long March (October 1933-October 1935) was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China. -
great prurge began
The Great Purge was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1934 to 1939. -
U.S. Congress passed the Neutrality Acts
In anticipation of another European war, and in pursuit of an isolationist foreign policy, Congress passed the Neutrality Act. -
Italy invaded Ethiopia
On October 3, 1935, shortly after the League exonerated both parties in the Walwal incident, Italian armed forces from Eritrea invaded Ethiopia without a declaration of war. -
Adolf hitler defies treaty of Versailles
In 1936, also, Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles by moving troops into the Rhineland demilitarised zone. -
Rape of Nanking
The Japanese invaded China and conquered parts of it. -
Anchluss
Calling the incorporation of Austria into Nazi Germany an "Anschluss," that is a unification or joinder. -
Hitler took the Sudetenland
Results In July 1938, Hitler promised Britain's Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, that he would not invade Czechoslovakia if he were given control of the Sudetenland. -
Kristallnacht Began
The night of broken glass. -
Nazi Soviet Pact signed
Before the beginning of World War II, Ribbentrop and Molotov signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. -
Germany invaded poland (Blitzkrieg)
1.5 million German troops invaded poland along it's borders. -
Rome-Berlin Axis
Italy joined the Pact in 1937. The "Rome–Berlin Axis" became a military alliance in 1939 under the Pact of Steel, with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 leading to the integration of the military aims of Germany and its two treaty-bound allies. -
Sitzkrieg began
The English and French did not want to go to war over Poland. -
Vichy Government Established in France.
Vichy France, officially the French State (l'État français), was France during the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain, during World War II. -
battle of britain
The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air superiority over the RAF from July to September 1940. -
Casablaca Conference
The Casablanca Conference (codenamed SYMBOL) was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, then a French protectorate, from January 14 to 24, 1943, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. -
Lend Lease Act
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Operation Barbarossa
The Beginning of the End for Hitler. -
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, Japan launches a surprise attack on American soil at Pearl Harbor. -
U.S declares war on japan
U.S declares war in response to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Chelmno concentration camp opened
It opened in December 1941 and closed in January 1945 and was operated to execute Jews, most of whom were Polish. -
Bataan death march
The Battle of Bataan ended on April 9, 1942, when U.S. General Edward P. King surrendered to Japanese General Masaharu Homma. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought during 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. -
Battle of Midway
The United States Navy (USN), under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy -
Battle of El Alamein
The First Battle of El Alamein (1–27 July 1942) was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. -
Battle of Stalingrad
In July 1942, the Nazi Army bombs the Soviet city of Stalingrad, launching one of the bloodiest battles in history. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
The Allies' first major offensive action of the Pacific War. -
Nisei were interned in relocation centers in the U.S.
Nesei's became interned. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch, the Algeria-Morocco military campaign, began on November 8, 1942, and ended on November 11, 1942. -
Russia became the USSR
On 28 December 1922, a conference of plenipotentiary delegations from the Russian SFSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR and the Byelorussian SSR approved the Treaty of Creation of the USSR and the Declaration of the Creation of the USSR, forming the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. -
Allies landed in Sicily
On July 10, 1943, the Allies begin their invasion of Axis-controlled Europe with landings on the island of Sicily, off mainland Italy. -
Tehran Conference
The Tehran Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. -
Operation Overlord
The invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
On February 19, 1945, American soldiers make their first strike on the Japanese Home Islands at Iwo Jima. -
Mussolini was executed
Mussolini was killed. -
Hitler Committed Suicide
Adolf Hitler took his own life. -
Germany Surrendered
On this day in 1945, the German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France. -
Battle of Okinawa
The 82-day-long battle lasted from early April until mid-June 1945. -
Manhattan project began
The nuclear age began on July 16, 1945, when it was detonated in the New Mexico desert. -
Potsdam Conference
The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Atomic bomb dropped in Nagaski
Three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki. -
V-J day
Japan has surrendered to the Allies after almost six years of war. -
Nurmenburg trials
On this day in 1945, a series of trials of accused Nazi war criminals, conducted by a U.S., French, and Soviet military tribunal based in Nuremberg, Germany, begins.
