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President Wilson's Fourteen Points was announced
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Continental drift theory:(geographer who pieced together continents into a single landmass on maps)
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Hara of the Seiyukai becomes prime minister
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The United Nations assigns the Mariana Islands to Japan
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Konosuke Matsushita founds an electrical company (later renamed Panasonic)
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PARACHUTE A parachute is a device for slowing down one's descent while falling to the ground.
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1918: Lenin orders the secret police to arrest and/or kill the anarchists
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1918: Lenin signs a truce with Germany and accepts territorial losses
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1918: Civil war erupts between the Red Army of the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks (helped by Britain, Japan, USA)
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The Svomas (Free State Art Studios) are inaugurated in Moscow
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1918: Lenin changes the name of the Bolshevik party to Russian Communist Party
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1918: Lenin orders the secret police to arrest and/or kill the anarchists
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1918: Lenin signs a truce with Germany and accepts territorial losses
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1918: Civil war erupts between the Red Army of the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks (helped by Britain, Japan, USA)
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The Svomas (Free State Art Studios) are inaugurated in Moscow
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1918: Lenin changes the name of the Bolshevik party to Russian Communist Party
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1918: Vladimir Mayakovsky's futurist play "Misteriya-Buff" is produced by Vsevolod Meyerhold with sets designed by Kazimir Malevich
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Jun 1918: The Soviet Union begins to nationalize the industry
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The Big Three: David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau.
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Jul 1918: Czar Nicholas II, his wife and their children are killed by the secret police of the Bolsheviks
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Jul 1918: Czar Nicholas II, his wife and their children are killed by the secret police of the Bolsheviks
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Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated the throne of Germany.
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Ebert became Chancellor of Germany.
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1919 January 18 Peace conference opens in Versailles. The main points are negotiated between David Lloyd George (Great Britain), Georges Clemenceau (France) and Woodrow Wilson (USA).
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Osaka Hokko Kaisha is founded (later Sumitomo)
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Makoto Saito is appointed governor of Korea
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Hitler joined the German Workers' Party in Munich
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Hitler announces the new name for the German Workers' Party - National Socialist German Workers'Party (Nazi)
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Prices collapse and a long stagnation begins
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Prices collapse and a long stagnation begins
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Italy during the inter-war period saw the demise of democracy and the rise of Fascism.
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The Japanese Communist Party is founded
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rise to Mussolini’s National Fascist Party which took control over the government
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clashes between the left-wing and right-wing factions emerged in Italy.
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The March on Rome - In Italy the nationalist movement under Mussolini, disappointed with the results of the war for Italy, takes power. Fascism and Antifascism start to become competing ideologies.
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Germany failed to make reparation payment
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1923 January 9-11 Over the vote of Great Britain the reparation comission decides that Germany has neglected its coal delivery.
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Roentgen was a German physicist who described this new form of radiation that allowed him to photograph objects that were hidden behind opaque shields. He even photographed part of his own skeleton. X-rays were soon used as an important diagnostic tool in medicine. Roentgen called these waves "X-radiation" because so little was known about them.
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the great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo
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Highway: the first proper motorway was the one connecting Milan and Laghi, built in
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Hitler was sentenced to five years' imprisonment
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May 1924: A treaty confirms Mongolia into the sphere of influence of the Soviet Union
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May 1924: A treaty confirms Mongolia into the sphere of influence of the Soviet Union
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Hitler was released from prison and began to rebuild the Nazi Party
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the universe originated with a huge explosion modified LeMaitre theory labeled “Big Bang”
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Collapse of the banking system
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1927: The Soviet Union establishes the State University of Circus and Variety Arts to train performers for the Moscow Circus
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1927: The Soviet Union establishes the State University of Circus and Variety Arts to train performers for the Moscow Circus
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1927: ·Beginning of the first Five-Year Plan
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The Japanese Kwantung army kills the Manchurian
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Japan's population is 65 million
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Aikawa Yoshisuke founds the holding company Nippon Sangyo, later renamed Nissan
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1928: Stalin enacts the first Five-Year Plan for rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union
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1928: Stalin enacts the first Five-Year Plan for rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union
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Car radio:William Lear, Elmer Wavering, U.S., 1929, manufactured by Galvin Manufacturing Co., “Motorola.”
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Polarizing filters (which are very effective at filtering out glare) were invented by Edwin H. Land
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929 triggered a deep and lasting decline in the world economy.
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1929: Leon Bronstein (Lev Trotsky), who opposes Stalin, is deported to Turkey
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1929: Leon Bronstein (Lev Trotsky), who opposes Stalin, is deported to Turkey
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Unemployment in Germany reached 4.9 million
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Cyclotron:
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Deuterium:(heavy hydrogen) Harold Urey, U.S., 1931.
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The Japanese army provokes an incident and invades Manchuria without consulting with the Wakatsuki government
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To ‘protect’ those in work, the German Labour Front was set up. This was lead by Robert Ley.
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he detected the first radio waves from a cosmic source - in the central region of the Milky Way Galaxy. Gote Reber (a ham radio operator) made the first true radio telescope (using a 32-foot diameter parabolic dish to focus the radio waves) after reading of Jansky's discoveries.
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Tsuyoshi Inukai of Seiyukai becomes prime minister and lets the yen devalue
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Following a devaluation of the currency, the Japanese economy begins to recover ahead of Western economies
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the Japanese army institutes the first "comfort houses" during the battle of Shanghai
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Jewish children were restricted entry into German schools
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Trade unions abolished
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A pact between France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy is signed.
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July 15 A pact between France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy is signed. (1933)
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1934: The "Union of Soviet Writers" is created to enforce "Socialist Realism" in the arts
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Many young men were taken off of the unemployment figure when conscription was brought and men had to do their time in the army etc.
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the Fuji Electric corporation spins off Fujitsu, specializing in telecommunications
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Nuremburg laws against Jews were passed
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Italy invades Abessinia.
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The League of Nations condemns Italys aggression and imposes an embargo on weapons, credit and raw materials. This remains ineffective due to a very lenient position of France and Great Britain and open support by Germany.
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Inflatable Lifevest Andrew Toti
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The Rome-Berlin Axis in 1936 was the beginning of the alliance.
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With the occupation of Abessinia complete, the League ends its sanctions against Italy.
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Olympic Games were held in Berlin (1936)
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Germany signed a treaty with Italy
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Germany signed a treaty with Italy
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Anticomintern Pact between Germany and Japan. Italy enters a year later.
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The Geiger counter is a device that detects ionizing radioactivity (including gamma rays and X-rays) - it counts the radioactive particle that pass through the device.
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Japan begins a secret program of naval construction
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Italian inventor and physicist. In 1895, Marconi promoted and popularized the radio (wireless telegraphy), building machinery to transmit and receive radio waves.
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Britain and France gave guarantees to Poland about its security
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Japan establishes the "Unit 731" research laboratory for biological warfare in Harbin, China, and tests biological weapons on war prisoners (10,000 die)
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Britain and France gave guarantees to Poland about its security
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the alliance with Germany was extended with the Pact of Steel
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Britain and France gave guarantees to Poland about its security
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Britain and France declared war on Germany (1939)
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As a compensation for the German expansion in Czechoslavakia, Italy occupies Albania.
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Britain and France declared war on Germany
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why Germany invaded Poland and what was the result in both text and pictures.
