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Spark of World War I
A Serbian revolutionary and member of the radical Black Hand group, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo. The Black Hand wanted the unification of all Yugoslavs within Serbia, and Austia-Hungary was determined to punish the Serbs for this event. Germany supported its neighbor Austria-Hungary, while Russia supported its ethnic kinsmen the Serbians and their independence, setting the stage for war in Eastern Europe. -
Investigation
Viennese foreign minister Fredrich Von Wisner goes to Sarajevo to study investigation material and to examine the Serbian governments role in the assassination of the Archduke. -
War is Declared
Austria Declares war on Serbia -
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World War I
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Germany Declares War on Russia
Germany declares war on Russia. -
Germany Declares War on Russia
Germany Declares War on France and the German troops flood into Belgium as directed under the Schleiffen Plan (the German General Staff's early 20th century overall strategic plan for victory in a possible future war in which the German Empire might find itself fighting on two fronts: France to the west and Russia to the east) which was drawn up in 1905. The British foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, sent an ultimatum to Germany demanding their withdrawal from the neutral Belgium. -
First Invasion
Germany invades Belgium. Later that evening Britain declares war because Germany did not withdraw from Belgium. -
War in Europe
Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia. Serbia declares war on Germany -
Japan Declares War on Germany
Japan declared war on Germany through their alliance with Great Britain, which was signed in 1902. -
Russia Declares War on Turkey
On October 29th 1914 Turkey entered the war on the side of the central powers and gave their help to a German naval bombardment of Russia. Because of their help given to the German attack of Russia, Russia declared war on Turkey. -
Britain and France declared war on Turkey
Britain and France, which were Russia's allies, declared war on Turkey, because of the help that Turkey gave to the German attack on Russia. -
USA Declares War on Germany
The United States declared war on Germany in response to the sinking, by German U boats, of US ships, mianly in part by the sinking of the Lusitania and the killing of 128 US civilians. -
Lusitania Sunk
The British ocean liner RMS Lusitania which was carrying 1,959 people, 159 of whom were Americans.A german U-Boat fired a torpedo at the ship and sunk it. The Americans were outraged to learn 128 U.S. civilians were killed in a war in which they were officially neutral. -
Italy Enters War
Italy enters the war on the ide of the Allies -
The March Revolution
The women in Petrograd, Russia broke out in strike because working Russian families wernt getting bread rashions while the governement was. They chanted "peace and bread" and "down with autocracy" so the Russian troops shot the crowds to keep the rioting down. the Russian created a provisional government on March 15, headed by Alexander Kerensky, who decided to carry on the war to save Russia's honor. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
A peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918 at Brest-Litovsk between Russia (the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic) and the Central Powers marking Russia's exit from World War I. -
Armistice signed
At 11 am, in the French town of Redonthes, the Armistice was signed bringing the war to an end. -
League of Nations is Created
The League of Nations was a intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. -
Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I were dealt with in separate treaties. Although the armistice signed on 11 November 1918, ended the actual fighting, it took six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty. -
Hannah Hoch "Cut with the Kitchen Knife"
Used photomontage to create images that reflected on women's issues. She cobined pictures of German political leaders with sports stars, Dada artists and scenes from urban life. Major Theme: confrontation between the anti-Dada world of German political leaders and the Dada world of revolutionary ideals. She associated women with Dada and the new world. -
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Cultural & Intellectual movement after WWI
Women began wearing more revealing attire, that influenced van de Velde's publishment of "Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique". Dadaism attempted to enshrine the purposelessness of life. Dadaists tried to give the insanity of life revoltion by creating anti-art. Surrealism sought the reality beyond the material, sensible world and found it in the world of unconscious through portrayal of fantasies, dreams, and nighmares. -
Hitler Becomes Leader of NSDAP
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party. -
Mein Kampf
Hitler revolted against the Weimar Republic & was arrested. He tured this defeat into something of a victory, using his trial as a platform to expound his deals and gain ncreased exposure. He served less than a year in prison, just long enough to become a near-martyr to his supporters and to write Mein Kampf, which articulated the fundamental ideas of Nazis. -
U.S. Stock Market Crash
The Stock Market on Wall Street crashes, causing nationwide panic and had almost everyone trying to pull their money out of the bank, when there was almost no money to be given out due to the fact that the banks had been giving loans to companies. -
Salvador Dali "The Persistence of Memory"
Part of surrealism, one of the art movements following WWI. He sought to portray the world of dreams by painting recognizable objects in unrecognizable relationships. -
Hitler is appointed as chancellor
Conservatives were majority of the government posts; therefore they believed they could control Hitler even if he were the chancellor. They agreed to his demand to join government as chancellor, and President Hindenburg appointed Hitler as chancellor of Germany. -
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Holocaust
Nazi's of Germany put Jews, homosexuals, communists, labor leaders, mentally disabled, and Gypsies in concentration camps and killed millions. -
Invasion of China
Debated as when WWII began. Japan invaded China and the wars throughout Asia broke out. -
German Invasion of Poland
Germany starded to invade Poland, and both Jewish and non-Jewish refugees fled. Germany annexed western Poland, and Soviet annexed eastern Poland. -
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France and Britain declare war on Germany
In an effort to help Poland, France and Britain declared war on Germany. Their effort as short lived because in July of 1940 Germany overran France. This affected the Asian wars and allowed Japan to take French Indochina. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
U.S. had been neutral throughout WWII, but after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, the U.S. joined the allies in their fight against the Central Powers. -
Battle of Midway
Known as "Turning Point of Pacific War"; Germany was turned back at Stalingrad, and Japan lost a large naval battle near Midway Island. From then on the industrial capacities of the U.S. and USSR were able to out-produce both of their enemies, and the Axis powers were put on the defensive. -
Italy Surrenders
Central Powers are decreasing in power. The allies started bringing them doan and the Central Powers are made to revise their decisions. -
D-Day
American, British and Canadian forces invaded the beaches of Normandy against the Nazis. They were successful. This was brought on by D. Eisenhower. -
Hitler Commits suicide
He shoots his wife and then himself. IRONY: 49 attempts to kill Hitler; he died by suicide. -
German Forces Surrender
The German forces unconditionally surrendered to the the Allies. -
V-E Day
(Victory in Europe Day) this day marks the Aliies victory in Europe because the unconditional surrender of Germany was signed at Reims on May 7 and ratified at Berlin on May 8. -
Hiroshima
During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the Allies of World War II conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. (These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date)The Japanese government ignored theultimatum that the U.S sent to them for them to surrender, and two nuclear weapons developed by the Manhattan Project were deployed. Little Boy (the anme of the bomb) was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. -
Nagasaki
Nagasaki suffered the same fate as Hiroshima. The bombing of Nagasaki was the last major act of World War II and within days the Japanese had surrendered. The Atomic Bomb killed millions of people and destroyed the city in which they were deployed, which gave the Japanese no other option but to surrender. -
Japan Surrenders
On this day the official surrender of Japan occurred, effectively ending World War II,
