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Camp Established at Guantanamo Bay
During Spanish- American war United States and Cuba signed a lease granting the US permission to use land for coaling and naval station -
Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinan
Heir presumptive to the Austro- Hungarian throne and his wife Sophie.Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie were shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The killing sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August. -
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Gallipoli Campaign
The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign, the Battle of Gallipoli, or the Battle of Çanakkale, was a campaign of the First World War that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula -
Bolshevik Revolution
Also known as the Russian Revolution, dismantled the Tsarists autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. -
German Resumption of Unrestricted Submarine
Unrestricted submarine warfare is a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink vessels such as freighters and tankers without warning, as opposed to attacks per prize rules -
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Civil War in Russia
Multi- party war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the Russian Revolutions of 1917. Bolsheviks WON! -
Treaty of Brest- Litovsk
By the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russia recognized the independence of Ukraine, Georgia and Finland; gave up Poland and the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to Germany and Austria-Hungary; and ceded Kars, Ardahan and Batum to Turkey. -
Paris Peace Conference
The Paris Peace Conference, also known as Versailles Peace Conference, was the meeting of the victorious Allied Powers following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers -
First Meeting of the League of Nations
The league held its first council meeting in Paris six days after the Versailles Treaty and the covenant of League of Nations came into force. -
Lenin's Economic Policy
After the civil war, Lenin revised his economic policy and introduced the New Economic Policy . Through this, peasants were allowed to sell some of their produce for profit and small traders were allowed to run businesses. -
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Mussolini Launches Fascist Movement
The ideology is associated with a series of three political parties led by Benito Mussolini: the Fascist Revolutionary Party (PFR) founded in 1915, the succeeding National Fascist Party (PNF) which was renamed at the Third Fascist Congress.The Fascist government that came to power with Benito Mussolini in 1922 sought to increase the size of the Italian empire and to satisfy the claims of Italian irredentists. -
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First Soviet Five Year Plan
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a list of economic goals, created by General Secretary Joseph Stalin and based on his policy of Socialism in One Country -
US Stock Market Crash
Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors -
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Civil Disobedience Movement in India
Its an active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government or occupying international power. -
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Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
they claimed that Chinese soldiers had sabotaged the railway, and attacked the Chinese army (which had just executed a Japanese spy). The Chinese army did not fight back because it knew that the Japanese were just wanting an excuse to invade Manchuria. -
Sandino is Murdered in Nicaragua
Following the withdrawal of the Marines in January 1933 and the inauguration of Sacasa as president, Sandino was invited to meet with Anastasio Somoza, the head of the National Guard, for an apparent peace conference but was abducted and murdered instead by National Guardsmen. -
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Long March by Chinese Communists
The Long March marked the emergence of Mao Zedong as the undisputed leader of the Chinese Communists -
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Stalin's " Great Purge" in USSR
A campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union. It has been estimated that at least 600,000 people died at the hands of the Stalin-led Soviet government during the Purge -
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Invasion of China by Japan
a clash occurred between Chinese and Japanese troops near Peiping in North China. When this clash was followed by indications of intensified military activity on the part of Japan, Secretary of State Hull urged upon the Japanese Government a policy of self-restraint. -
Cardenas Nationalizes Oil Industry in Mexico
Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas signed an order that expropriated the assets of nearly all of the foreign oil companies operating in Mexico. -
German Anschluss with Austria
Hitler wanted all German-speaking nations in Europe to be a part of Germany. To this end, he had designs on re-uniting Germany with his native homeland, Austria. Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, however, Germany and Austria were forbidden to be unified. -
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Invasion of Poland by Germany
The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign or the 1939 Defensive War, and in Germany as the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiss, was a joint invasion of Poland by Germany -
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German Invasion of USSR
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, during World War II. -
Soviet Victory of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a significant factor that supported an Allied victory during World War II. The second reason is that this battle was the first major German loss during World War II. After the Germans lost in Stalingrad, they did not advance any farther into eastern Europe or Russia. -
D- Day, Allied Invasion at Normandy
The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
Capture of Berlin by Soviet Force
Soviet Artillery of the 1st Front began shelling Berlin and did not stop until the city surrendered -
Algerian War of Liberation
Under the command of the Nation Liberation Front Algeria started the war against France, used Guerrilla Warfare. Thousand of people died but Algeria got their Independence. -
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Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the Final stage of World War II, the United States denoted two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
Establishment of United Nations
Its an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order -
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French Defeat at Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the decisive engagement in the first Indochina War. After French forces occupied the Dien Bien Phu valley in late 1953, Viet Minh commander Vo Nguyen Giap amassed troops and placed heavy artillery in caves of the mountains overlooking the French camp. -
Partition of India
The Partition of India was the division of British India in 1947 which accompanied the creation of two independent dominions, India and Pakistan. -
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Apartheid in South Africa
political and social separation between races enforced by a white minority government -
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Arab- Israeli War
Broke out when the Arab Nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate immediately following the announcement of the Independence of the state of Israel -
Creation of Israel
The defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. The head of the Jewish Agency proclaimed the establishment of the state of Israel Us President Harry S. Truman established the new nation on the same day. -
Human Rights Declaration Adopted
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a historic document that was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its third session -
Establishment of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization also called the North Atlantic Alliance is an intergovernmental Military alliance between several North America and European countries. -
Establishment of People's Republic of China
The Chinese Civil War and the victory of Mao Zedong's Communist forces over the Kuomintang forces of Generalissimo Chiang led Taiwan -
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Korean War
the Korean War began when North Korea, supported by the Soviet Union and China, invaded South Korea, which was supported by the United States. General MacArthur, leader of the United Nations forces, drove the North Koreans back across the divide, yet encountered a Chinese invasion. -
Establishment of Warsaw Pact
Formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw -
Suez Crisis
Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal in July of that same year, initiating the Suez Crisis. -
Uprising of Hungary
Causes of the Hungarian Revolution. Khrushchev's policy of 'de-Stalinisation' caused problems in many Eastern European Communist countries, where people hated the hard-line Stalinist regimes that Russia had put in place. There was also trouble in Poland in 1956, and Khrushchev had to send in Russian troops -
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Great Leap Forward in China
It was an effort made by the Communist Party of China under the leadership of Mao Zedong to transform China into a society capable of competing with other Western industrialized nations, within a short, five-year time period. -
Castro comes to power in Cuba
Overthrew the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batiota, ruled over Cuba for nearly five years. -
Sino- Soviet Rift
The Sino-Soviet rift, says William E. Griffith, is the single most significant ideological split since the Reformation in the 16th century. Not merely a matter of a “backyard fight” among the Communist states, the formidable consequences of the cleavage are being mirrored in the foreign policy actions of neutral and Western nations as well. -
US Troops in Vietnam
Kennedy sends 400 United States Army Special Forces personnel to South Vietnam to train South Vietnamese soldiers following a visit to the country by Vice-President Johnson.In one year's time, President Johnson had gained the support of the congress to send troops to Vietnam. He claimed that those troops were meant to stop the spread of communism. Though the US government supported him because he had prevented communist victory in the South. -
Construction of the Berlin Wall
During the early Cold War, West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands of East German fled to the democratic West. -
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Revolution of Iran
events involving the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who was supported by the United States, and eventual replacement of 2,500 years of continuous Persian monarchy -
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Iran- Iraq War
triggering a bitter eight-year war which destabilized the region and devastated both countries. The then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein claimed as a reason for the invasion a territorial dispute over the Shatt al-Arab, the waterway which forms the boundary between the two countries. -
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Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
The final and complete withdrawal of Soviet combatant forces from Afghanistan -
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Persian Gulf War
Persian Gulf War, also called Gulf War, , international conflict that was triggered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990.Egypt and several other Arab nations joined the anti-Iraq coalition and contributed forces to the military buildup, known as Operation Desert Shield -
Collapse of USSR
when the Soviet Union;s oil and gas revenue dropped dramatically, the USSR began to lose control over Eastern Europe. Gorbachev resigned as leader of the USSR. -
Transfer of Hong Kong to China
Hong Kong returned to China. Hong Kong got away from the control of Britian -
International Outbreak of SARS
Over the next few months, the illness spread to more than two dozen countries in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia before the SARS global outbreak of 2003 was contained. -
Terrorist Attack on London Subway
A homemade explosive set off a small fire on a train at a London subway station during rush hour Friday, injuring 29 people and death of many. The London Ambulance Service confirmed a hazardous area response team was sent to the scene around 8:20 a.m. local time (3:20 a.m ET). The London Fire Brigade said eight vehicles and around 50 firefighters were at the station.
