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archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was asssainated on june 28, 1914http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke
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World War I
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tanks first used in the war
While the British took the lead in tank development, the French were not far behind, fielding their first tanks in April, 1917 and going on to produce more tanks than all the other combatants combined. The Germans, on the other hand, were slower to develop tanks, concentrating on anti-tank weapons to use against British and French tanks, and producing only 20 of their own.
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zImmerman telegram
Arthur Zimmmerman sends a telegram to mexico,that the US recovered and found out the contents of the telegram. Zimmmerman wanted Mexico to try to reconquer Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. This angered Americans and was one of the many causes of them decaring war.
SOURCE-https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/history/euro-hist/world-war-I-tutorial/v/zimmermann-telegram -
German U-Boats sink the Lustainia
A british passenger ship got sunk by German U-Boats. This ship had over 1,000 people, 159 were americans. This angered the Americans, and caused many reasons for them to decalare war on Germany, for killing thier people source-http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpwwi2.htm. -
armistice ends the fighting
An armistice is a situation in a war where the warring parties agree to stop fighting.
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Interwar Period
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U.S. Stock Market Crashes
U.S. stock market crashes due to a combination of: increasing speculations in the stock market, stock prices at unrealisitic levels, increasing consumer reliacnces on credit, declining consumer spending, and struggling businesses. This signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. Source: Human Legacy -
Gandhi boycotts British products
Exspansion of his non-violence platform to include the swadeshi policy - the boycott of foriegn goods, especially british goods. Source: Human legacy textbook
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Japan invades Manchuria
The Japanesse imperial headquarters sent the order to expand operations on the south manchurian railway. This led to troops of the 2nd Division capturing cities along the 720 mile span of railway. Source: Human Legacy Textbook
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Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
Many supporters of Hitler wrote to Paul von Hindenburg (German President) perusading him to make Hitler chancellor of Germany.
This event signified Hitler's rise to full control over Germany. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws -
Struggling countries hit by The Depression
Worldwide economic depression that hit many central european countries while they where still struggling to recover from world war 1. Source: Human Legacy Textbook and
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Nazi Government Passes Anti-Semitic Nuremburg Laws
Nazi ideology on antisemitism as a form of scientific racism leads to the passing of the Nuremburg laws (antismeitc laws focusing on mainl Jews, but also blacks, gays, and gypsies) at the 1935 annual Nuremburg rally. This was significant especially towards the contribution of the holocaust. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws -
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World War II
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German troops invade Poland and the war begins
At 4;45a.m., some 1.5 million german troops invade poland all along it's 1750 mile border with german controlled territory.
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Germany conquers France
It took only six weeks for France to capitulate to the German invaders. A stunning defeat - particularly since before the war the French army was considered the most powerful in Europe
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise air attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
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Allies win the Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway, fought near the Central Pacific island of Midway, is considered the decisive battle of the war in the Pacific. Before this battle the Japanese were on the offensive, capturing territory throughout Asia and the Pacific.
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Allies invade Italy
The British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery begins the Allied invasion of the Italian peninsula, crossing the Strait of Messina from Sicily and landing at Calabria--the "toe" of Italy.
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Allies drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
At 8:16, Little Boy exploded 2,000 feet above the Hiroshima’s central business district, melting granite with a fireball hotter than the sun’s surface (McPhillips 39) and "instantly and completely" destroying four square miles of the city (MED Report). It destroyed or damaged over ninety percent of the city’s buildings (McPhillips 39), hiro near ground 0.gif (12530bytes)killed 66,000 people, and injured 69,000 (MED Report).
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Trench Warfare
This was when Trench Warfare began, which was when battles began happenening at the front lines, this caused battles to prolong, mutiple mortalitie rates per battle, and disease.
