Timeline for History

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  • World War 1 began

  • February Revolution in the Soviet Union

    Tsar abdicted in March Provisional Government set up

  • October Revolution in the Soviet Union

    Provisional Government overthrown, Bolsheviks established government

  • The USA entered WW1

  • World War 1 ended

  • Stalin became Commissar for Nationalities and a member of the Communist Party Central Committee

  • Russian Civil War Started

  • WW1 ended

  • The Weimar Republic formed

  • Paris Peace Conference

  • Treaty of Versailles Signed

  • League of Nations Founded

  • Washington Naval Conference held

  • Hitler became the leader of Nazi Party

  • End of Russian Civil War

  • Soviet Union formed through merger with Transcaucasian, Byelorussian and Ukranian Soviet republics

  • Stalin became Secretary - General of the Communist Party

  • Munich Putsch failed; Hitler arrested and sent to prison

  • Death of Lenin

  • Power struggle within the Communist Party

  • Locarno Treaties signed

  • Germany joined LON

  • First Five-Year Plan started

  • Hitler's Nazi Party won only 3% of votes in Reichstag

  • Kellogg-Briand Pact signed

  • Stalin gained control over the Soviet Union

  • Trotsky exiled

  • Stalin became supreme leader of the Soviet Union

  • Great Depression brought recession and economic woes to Germany

  • Wall Street Crash led to Great Depression

  • London Naval Conference

  • Nazis won more seats than any other party in Reichstag

  • Nazis lost 34 seats in the Reichstag; Hitler sought to gain power through other avenues rather than elections

  • World Disarmament Conference in Geneva

  • Second Five-Year Plan started

  • Hitler appointed as Chancellor

  • Reichstag Fire

  • Hindenburg issued Emergency Decree

  • The first concentration camp set up at Dachau

  • The Enabling Act allowed Hitler to pass decrees without the need for President's approval

  • Law against the formation of New Parties - Germany became a one-party state

  • Germany withdrew from LON; Hitler stepped up Germany's secret rearmament programme

  • Russia joined LON

  • Kirov Affair Start of the Great Terror purges

  • President Hindenburg died and Hitler became Fuehrer, merging powers of Chancellor and President

  • Night of the Long Knives

  • Italy invaded Abyssinia

  • Hitler passed the Nuremberg Laws - excluding Jews from German Society

  • Stressa Front signed

  • Fraco- Soviet Alliance signed

  • Anglo-German Naval Treaty signed

  • Italy conquered Abyssinia

  • Hitler remilitarised the Rhineland

  • Mussolini established Rome-Berlin Axis with Hitler; Hitler signed Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan

  • Germany and Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact

  • Nazi Germany entered the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Nationalists

  • Neville Chamberlain became Prime Minister of Britain

  • Italy joined Anti-Comintern Pact forming the Axis Powers with Nazi Germany and Japan

  • Italy withdrew from LON

  • American Congress passed Neutrality Act

  • End of the Great Terror purges

  • Night of Broken Glass

  • Anschluss between Nazi Germany and Austria achieved

  • Munich Agreement signed

  • Nazi Germany gained control over Sudetenland

  • Russia expelled from LON

  • Nazi Germany invaded Poland; Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany, WW2 broke out, Roosevelt implemented 'cash and carry' plan

  • Nazi Germany took over the rest of Czechoslovakia

  • Nazi- Soviet Non-Aggression Pact signed

  • World War 2 began in Europe

  • Trotsky assassinated while living in exile in Mexico

  • Hitler attacked Britain, Battle of Britain commenced

  • France fell to Germany

  • Tripartite Pact signed between Axis Powers

  • Roosevelt's fireside chat 'On National Security'

  • US Congress passes Lend-Lease Act

  • Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, opened up Eastern Front

  • Soviet Union joined the Allies by forming military alliance with Britain against Germany

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    Battle of Stalingrad

  • Wannesee Conference - Decision to kill all Jews

  • Italy surrendered to the Allies

  • Italy declared war on the Axis Powers

  • Battle of Kursk ended, Germans retreated from Eastern Front

  • Operation Overload commenced with D-Day landings

  • Ploesti oilfields put out of operation

  • Allies entered Berlin, Hitler committed suicide

  • Germany surrendered, World War 2 ended in Europe