20th Century By lupepito 1870 Italy became a country 1870 Franco-Prussian War Period: Jan 1, 1870 to Jan 1, 1992 20 th Century 1871 Germany became a country 1879 Dual Alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary 1882 Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy 1892 France and Russia became allies 1897 Tha National Union of Women's sufrage was set up in Britain (suffragists) 1904 Entente Cordiale between France and Britain 1904 War between Russia and Japan 1904 Argentina: End of Julio Argentino Roca's presidency 1904 Argentina: Manuel Quintana's presidency 1905 First Duma in Russia with free elections (soon dissmised by the Tsar) 1906 Beggining of Liberal Reforms in Britain 1906 Argentina: Jose Figueroa Alcorta's presidency 1907 Triple Entente between France, Britain and Russia 1908 The Women's Social and Political Union was set up in Britain (suffragettes) 1908 Austria-Hungary took over Bosnia 1910 Argentina: Roque Saenz Peña's presidency 1912 The Ottomans were drove out of the Balkans 1912 Argentina: Saenz Peña Law 1913 Serbia was enlarged 1914 Germany invaded Belgium 1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo 1914 Austria declared war on Serbia 1914 Russia, supporting Serbia, began to movilise 1914 Germany declared war on Russia 1914 Germany declared war on France 1914 Britain declared war on the Central Powers 1914 Battle of Marne (both sides took up trench positions) 1915 The Luisitania was sunk by a German U-boat 1915 Italy declare war on Austria-Hungary 1916 Battle of Jutland (naval battle between Britain and Germany) 1916 Rasputin was murdered in Russia 1916 Argentina: Irigoyen was elected president 1917 Russian Revolution 1917 The Tsar abdicated and the Duma formed a provisional government lead by Kerensky 1917 The Bolsheviks seized power in the October Revolution 1917 USA entered the war on the Allied side 1918 Russia made peace with Germany 1918 In Britain a restrictive number of women gained the right to vote for the first time 1918 Civil war in Russia 1918 The Germans asked for an armistice and the First World War came to an end 1918 Argentina: a student movement started at the University of Cordoba, whixh eventually lead to the university Reform 1919 The Treaty of Versailles 1919 The USA "Prohibition" (alcohol was forbidden) 1919 Argentina: The Tragic Week 1919 War between Greece and Turkey 1920 Hitler launched the NAZI Party 1920 Elections USA: Warren Harding became president 1921 End of the Russian Civil war and Russian famine 1922 Lenin's death. A struggle for power between Stalin and Trotsky began 1922 Argentina: Marcelo T. de Alvear was elected president 1923 The French sent troops into Germany's industrial area 1923 Hitler announced he was taking over the government and was arrested 1923 USA: president Harding died suddenly and Calvin Coolidge became president 1923 Corfu Incident ( an Italian General was shot in Greece-Mussolini attacked the Greek island) 1925 The Locarno pact was signed 1926 Germany joined the League of Nations 1926 General strike from all the major industries in Britain 1926 Kellogg Pact (between 65 countries) 1928 In Britain, women gained the right to vote on the same basis as men 1928 In Russia, Stalin had gained complete control of the country and launched the Five Years Plan 1928 USA: Herverd Hoovert became president 1928 Argentina: Irigoyen was re-elected 1929 The Wall Street Crash 1930 The NAZIs gained a lot of votes 1930 Argentina: A military coup led by Uriburu overthrew Irigoyen's government and began a period known as The Infamous Decade 1931 Japanese army invaded Manchuria (China) 1932 USA: Franklin D. Roosvelt won the elections 1932 New Deal Plan was started 1932 USA: The "Prohibition" was ended 1932 Argentina: Agustin P. Justo won the elections, which are said to have been heavily fraudulent 1933 Hitler became dictator of Germany 1933 Japan left the league 1933 Hitler withdrew Germany from the league 1934 The NAZI party became the only political legal party 1934 Russia became a member of the League of Nations 1934 Italy invaded Ethiopia 1934 Hitler invaded Austria 1935 Unemployment was reduced by expanding the German army, navy and air force 1935 Hitler passed the Nuremberg Laws 1935 Naval agreement between Germany and Britain 1936 USA: Roosvelt was re-elected 1936 Rome-Berlin Axis 1936 Re-occupation of the Rhine Land 1936 The Spanish Civil War broke out 1937 Argentina: Roberto Ortiz was elected president 1937 Italy left the league 1937 Mussolini joined the Anti-Comintern Pact 1938 The NAZIs ordered an attack on Jews and their property 1938 Hitler ordered the anexation of Austria 1939 The Gestapo began to round up Jews and sent them to concentration camp 1939 Hitler's army marched into Czechoslovakia 1939 The Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939 Hitler invaded Poland- Outbreak of the Second Worls War 1940 Fall of Western Europe 1940 Winston Churchill became the British Prime Minister 1940 Germans launched a Blitzkrieg attack against the Low Countries and France 1940 Mossolini declared war on Britain 1940 German bombing to British cities started 1940 Rationing was introduced in Britain 1941 Jews were killed in thousands in specially-built gas chambers 1941 USA: Roosvelt led the USA into Second World War 1941 Hitler invaded Russia (Operation Barbarossa) 1941 The Japanese attacked the American base al Pearl Harbor - Roosevelt declared war on Germany and Japan 1941 Roosevelt organised the 'Lend-Lease' scheme (Britain could borrow military equipment) 1942 Argentina: Ramon Castillo took power 1942 Allied bombing of Germany started 1942 Operation Torch (Churchill and Roosevelt attacked North Africa) 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea 1942 Battle of Midway 1943 Argentina: Arturo Rawson and Pedro Pablo Ramirez took power by force 1943 The Teheran Conference (Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchil) 1944 Argentina: Argentia made a late declaration of war on Germany 1944 General de Gaulle became the new President of France 1944 Bomb Plot (attempt to assassinate Hitler) 1944 The Allies entered Rome and Florence 1944 The Japanese invade India 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulfe 1945 The United Nations Organisation was set up 1945 President Roosevelt died 1945 The Yalta Conference (Allied leaders) 1945 Atomic bomb testing at Los Alamos in the Nevada desert 1945 Stalin, Churchill and Truman gathered at the Potsdam Conference to decide how to administer the defeated Nazi Germany 1945 The bomber 'Enola Gay' drops an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima 1945 The USSR declares war on Japan 1945 Second atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki May 7, 1945 The war in Europe ended 1946 Argentina: General Juan Peron became president 1947 Truman sets up the National Security Council (NSC) 1947 Truman introduces The Truman Doctrine 1947 Beginning of the Cold War 1947 Truman's Secretary of State, General George Marshall puts forward Marshall Aid 1949 Argentina: Women gained the right to vote 1949 Weastern European countries form the "North Atlantic Treaty Organizarion" (NATO) 1949 US president Harry S. Truman proposes The Fair Deal 1950 Beginning of the Korean War 1951 US alliance with Japan 1952 Argentina: Peron was re-elected as president 1953 End of the Korean War 1954 Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in tbe US 1955 Argentina: "Revolucion Libertadora" military coup. Aramburu was named president. 1955 Montgomery bus boycott led by Martin Luther King 1955 Beginning of the Vietnam War 1957 Launch of the Russian satellite 'sputnik' into orbit around the earth 1958 Argentina: Frondizi won the elections 1961 Building of the Berlin Wall to stop people from escaping from East Germany to West Germany 1961 JFK establishes the Peace Corps 1962 Cuban crisis 1963 Argentina: Arturo Illia won the elctions 1963 Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1966 Argentina: military coup 1966 Argentina: Ongania's de facto presidency 1966 Argentina: The Night of the Long Batons (La Noche de los Bastones Largos) 1968 Assassination of Martin Luther King 1969 Argentina: "Cordobazo" 1972 Watergate scandal 1973 Argentina: Campora's presidency 1973 Argentina: Peron was elected president again 1974 Argentina: Peron died and his wife, Isabel, took control 1975 End of the Vietnam War 1975 Helsinki Accords 1976 Argentina: Military coup called the National Organization Process 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1982 Falklands (Malvinas) War 1983 Argentina: Alfonsin was elected president 1988 Gorbachev assumes as the Soviet Union's head of state 1989 Argentina: Menem was elected president 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1991 End of the Cold War