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Trans-Siberian Railway Built
A network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan.[1] It is the longest railway line in the world. -
Czar Nicholas II Became the Leader of Russia
He was abdicated from office. -
Italy invaded Ethiopia
Italians made themselves king over Ethiopia so they (Ethiopia) fought back. -
Albert Eintein Developed the Theory of Relativity
Special relativity is a theory of the structure of spacetime. -
Bloody Sunday in Russia
Where unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard, approaching the city center and the Winter Palace from several gathering points. -
Russo-Japanese War began
Following the Russian rejection of a Japanese plan to divide Manchuria and Korea into spheres of influence, Japan launches a surprise naval attack against Port Arthur, a Russian naval base in China. The Russian fleet was decimated. -
Sun Yixian Became President of China
Father of the Nation. -
Potsdam Conference
Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. The three powers were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill,[4] and, later, Clement Attlee,[5] and President Harry S. Truman. -
Atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki
Fat Man was dropped on Japan. -
May Fourth Movement Began
Was an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4, 1919, protesting the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, especially allowing Japan to receive territories in Shandong. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicated
Order broke down, and members of the Duma and the Soviet formed a Provisional Government to try to restore order. They issued a demand that Nicholas must abdicate. -
March Revolution in Russia
Is the term for the consecutive Revolutions in Russia in 1917. -
March Revolution in Russia
The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917. -
Russian Marxists Split into Meinsheviks and Bolsheviks
Georgi Plekhanov was elected whiile half of the Marxists were uneasy about it. -
The Bolshevik Revolution
It followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy and established a provisional government composed predominantly of former nobles and aristocrats. -
Russian Civil War Began
Was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army, the loosely allied anti-Bolshevik forces. -
Vladimir Lenin Became Leader of Russia
Lenin was installed into power. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia (the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey), which ended Russia's participation in World War I. -
Weimar Republic Established in Germany
The name given by historians to the federal republic and semipresidential representative democracy established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government. -
Kuomintang was Created
The predecessor of the KMT, the Revolutionary Alliance, was one of the major advocates of the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the establishment of a republic. -
Adolf Hitler Became Hitler of the Nazi Party
He was the leader of the party before becoming Chancellor. -
New Economic Policy Enforced in Russia
The NEP represented a more capitalism-oriented economic policy, deemed necessary after the Russian Civil War of 1917 to 1922, to foster the economy of the country, which was almost ruined. -
Washington Conference
Meeting between representatives of 9 nations with interests in the Pacific. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact Signed
USSR and Germany won't attack each other for ten years. -
Dawes Plan Started
The Dawes Plan was an attempt following World War I for the Triple Entente to compromise and collect war reparations debt from Germany. -
Jiang Jiang became leader of the Kuomintang
Jiang Jiang fought for control of Koumintang after Sun ( the past leader) died. -
Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf
An autobiographical manifesto by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. -
Benito Mussolini Became the Leader of Italy
Became king of Italy and later was killed by his own people. -
Hirohito Became the emperor of Japan
Reigned after his father died. -
Civil War in China
The Chinese Civil War[nb 2] was a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China led by the Kuomintang (KMT) and forces of the Communist Party of China (CPC).[ -
Charles Lindbergh's Solo Flight Across the Atlantic
The aviator Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic. -
Five Year Plan Began
A list of economic goals, created by General Secretary Joseph Stalin and based off his policy of Socialism in One Country. It was implemented between 1928 and 1932. -
Kellog - Briand Pact Signed
Was a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them. -
Joseph Stalin Became Leader of the USSR
Became leader after Lenin. -
Stock Market Crashed in the U.S.
Signaled 10 year Great Depression. -
Great Depression Began
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. -
Japan Invaded Manchuria
The Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident. -
Japan Invaded China
Japan invaded Manchuria and the Rape of Nanking -
Adolf Hitler Became Chancellor of Germany
The government wanted his following so they made him chancellor. -
Franklin D. Rooslevelt Became President of the U.S.
Only president to be elected for four terms. -
Russia became the USSR
Communist Party in government. -
The Long March
Was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang. -
The New Deal Started
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938. -
The League of Nations was Created
As an intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. -
Great Purge Began
Was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1934 to 1939. -
Adolf HItler defied the Treaty of Versailles
In defiance of the treaty, he put the leaders of the Communist Party into concentration camps in 1933 and in 1934 leaves the League of Nations. In 1935 he increased the Germany army to 500,000 and in 1936 signs a pact with Japan and Italy. -
U.S. Congress Passed the Neutrality Acts
In response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. -
Germany Reoccupied the Rhineland
Planned to go before but had to hault the plans. -
Francisco Franco Led a Facist Revolt in Spain
Fought between the Republicans, who were loyal to the democratically elected Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists, a rebel group led by General Francisco Franco. -
Rome-Berlin Axis
Were the nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces between two dictators, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. -
Anschluss
The occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938. -
Hitler Hosted Munich Conference
Munich Agreement let Hitler govern Germans in Czechslovakia. -
Adolf Hitler took the Sudetenland
Germany invaded Sudeteland and took it over. -
Kristallnacht Began
A series of attacks againt Jews. -
Germany Invaded Poland (Blitzkrieg)
In WWII, Germany charged after Poland and defeated them. -
Sitzkreig Begins
A lazy war with no fighting. -
Rape of Nanking
Japan massacared many Chinease people in Nanking. -
Winston Churchill Became the Prime Minister of Great Britain
Regarded as one of the greatest war time leaders. -
Aushwitz Death Camp Opened
A network of concentration camps. -
Allies Evacuate Dunkrik
The operation became necessary when large numbers of British, French, and Belgian troops were cut off and surrounded by the German army during the Battle of France in World War II. -
Vichy Government Established in France
France during the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain, during World War II, from the German victory in the Battle of France (July 1940) to the Allied liberation in August 1944. -
Battle of Britain
Is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. -
Tripartite Pact Signed
The Axis Powers unite. -
Lend-Lease Act
Was a program under which the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and August 1945. -
Operation Barbarossa
Germany invaded USSR. -
Atlantic Charter
Defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by the leaders of Britain and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies. -
Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor
Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and destroyed many naval ships. -
The U.S decalred war on Japan
On December 8, 1941, the day after Japanese forces attacked the American military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Franklin Roosevelt addressed Congress and asked for a Declaration of War with Japan. -
Chelmo Concentration Camp Opened
A concentration camp that Hitler used. -
Nesie were Interned in Relocation Centers in the U.S.
Japanese American in camps. -
Hitler Enacted the Final Solution
The Plan to Murder Jews. -
Bataan Death March
The forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. -
Doolitle Raids over Japan
An air raid by America to Tokyo. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
U.S. and Australia versus Japan in naval battles. -
Battle of Midway
One of the most important naval battles of World War II. -
Battle of El Alamein
The Battles occurred in North Africa in Egypt in and around an area named after a railway stop called El Alamein -
Battle of Stalingrad
A major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union. -
Operation Torch
The British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
Was the decisive engagement in a series of naval battles between Allied (primarily United States) and Imperial Japanese forces during the World War II. -
Manhattan Project Began
Was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. -
Casablanca Conference
To plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. -
Allies Landed in Sicily
It was a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat. It launched the Italian Campaign. -
Island Hopping Campaign
America Island Hopped to get closer Japan. -
Tehran Conference
Stragetic Meeting between the Big 3. -
The Holocaust Began
The genocide of Jews. -
Operation Overlord (D Day)
Germany invaded Normandy and and fought the Allied Powers. -
Kamikaze Pilots Appear in the Pacific
Kamikaze- suicide Japanese pilots -
Gen. Macarthur Returned to the Phillipines (Leyte Gulf)
The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the amphibious invasion of the Gulf of Leyte in the Philippines by American and Filipino guerrilla forces under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita from 20 October - 31 December 1944. -
Battle of the Bulge
The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard and became the costliest battle in terms of casualties for the United States, whose forces bore the brunt of the attack. It also severely depleted Germany's war-making resources. -
Yalta Conference
Was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. -
Battle of Ixo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945), or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. -
Mussolini was Executed
The next day, Mussolini and Petacci were both summarily shot, along with most of the members of their 15-man train, primarily ministers and officials of the Italian Social Republic. -
Battle of Okinawa
After a long campaign of island hopping, the Allies were approaching Japan, and planned to use Okinawa. -
Hitler Commited Suicide
Russia started to go after Germany. -
Germany surendered
A week after hitler died. -
V-E Day
End of WWII. -
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima
Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima. -
Japan Surrendered
Surrendered after two atomic bombs dropped. -
V-J Day
When an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki andHiroshima. Victory over Japan. The Japanese then gave up the war. -
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany.
