Unit 6 Timeline

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    AP Wprld History Timeline

  • Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdindad

    Made use of the alliances created previously; Attempt to create Yugoslavia; Started WW1

  • Partition of India

    Created dominion of Pakistan and Union of India.

  • Japan Makes 21 Demands on China

    Result of two treaties with Japan; Japanese control on Manchuria and Shandong

  • Gallipoli Campaign

    British and French to protect Istanbul; Failure and high rate of casulalties

  • German Resumption Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

    Plan to sink thousands of British ships a month;

  • Civil War in Russia

    Nov 1 1917 - October 1 1922: Victory for Red Army; Create Soviet Union

  • Bolshevik Revolution

    Overthrew Tsarist Autocracy; Establishment of public government

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    Treaty to exit Russia from WW1; the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania; Riots in Poland

  • Paris Peace Conference

    Put finanical and war causes on Germany; Changed map of Europe

  • First meeting of the League of Nations

    Organization to end international conflicts; Nothing is done

  • Lenin's Economic Policy

    allowed small animal businesses; Communism

  • Ataturk Proclaims Republic of Turkey

    Secular State;

  • First Soviet Five- Year Plan

    Led to centralized control from Stalin

  • US Stock Market Cash

    Created great depression; Mass poverty and starvation

  • Hitler is Ruler in Germany

    Holocaust; Dictator; Mass genocide; Cuased WW2

  • Civil Disobiedence Movement in India

    Liberation of India; Ghandi's march; Ghandi's fame

  • Japanese Invasion of Manchuria

    Held control until end of WW1; created Manchuko

  • Sandino is Murdered in Nicaragua

    Leader of revolution; Symbol of resistance;

  • Long March by Chinese Communists

    Escape from liberation army

  • Mussolini Launches Fascist Movement

    Facism in Italy

  • Stalin's Great Purge in USSR

    Display of Stalin's hunger for power; Took out many leaders

  • Invasion of China by Japan

    Lead to WW2

  • Cardenas Nationalizes Oil Industry in Mexico

    Increased Economy

  • German Anschluss with Austria

    Annex of Austria;

  • Invasion of Poland by Germany

    Annex of Poland

  • German invasion of USSR

    Many German military dead

  • Soviet Victory at Stalingrad

    Germany vs Russia over Stalingrad

  • D-Day, Allied invasion at Normandy

  • Capture of Berlin by Soviet forces

    Soviet Attack;92,000-100,000 dead; Suicide of Hitler

  • Division of Berlin and German

    A divide of Germany following WW2

  • Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Aug 6 & 9: Took Japan out of WW2; Division of Korea

  • Establishment of United Nations

    End international disputes; following WW2; Created to stop wars

  • Creation of Israel

    Homeland for Jews; Zionist movement

  • Arab-Isreali War

    May 15 1948 - March 10 1949: Arabs vs. Jews; Isreali victory; more tension even today

  • Apartheid in South Africa

    1948 - 1994: Racical Discrimination; No citizenship, education, medical care, etc.;

  • Establishment of NATO

    Mutual defense agreement

  • Establishment of People's Republic of China

    Communism;

  • Korean War

    Divison of North and South Korea

  • French defeat at Dien Bien Phu

    March 1954 - May 1954: French defeat

  • Algerian war of Liberation

    Impact on decolonization; Algeria independence

  • Establishment of Warsaw Pact

    Defense treaty between european communist

  • US troops in Vietnam

    To spread anti-communism

  • Uprisings in Hungary

    Freedom from government; now holiday

  • Suez Crisis

    Started tension between France and Israel

  • Great Leap Forward in China

    More socialism; more aware of natural disaster

  • Sino-Soviet Rift

    China vs Soviet; Maosim vs Marx-Leninsim

  • Construction of Berlin Wall

    Seperation from Berlin to Germany

  • Creation of PLO

    Considered to be terrorist

  • Castro Comes to Power in Cuba

    12/2/1976 - 2/24/2008: Reforms; Socialism; Made Cuba dependent on Russia

  • Revolution in Iran

    Overthrow Iran monarchy;

  • Iraq-Iran War

    September 1980 - August 1988: High death rate; Tension increase

  • Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan

    Afgan fighters kill many leaving Soviets

  • Persian Gulf War

    Annex Kuwait

  • Reunification of Germany

    Berlin back into Germany

  • Collapse of USSR

    End of Cold War

  • Transfer of Hong Kong to China

    End of British rule

  • Uprisings in Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan

    2003 - 2005: Rising energy prices; Violent police