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This assassination is seen as the trigger to WW1, as an Austria-Hungary prince was assassinated by a young German man. -
Occurs when Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated
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German sub sinks passenger ship on its way to London from New York, killing 128 Americans. -
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Lenin takes power over the Tsar party, becomes leader of Russia.
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Woodrow Wilson presents his points in a speech to congress and the American people, including things like allowing Russia to make its own government, instead of the empire the people currently lived under. -
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The biggest stock market crash in history, happened a few years after WW1 ended.
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The soon-to-be dictator is appointed as Chancellor. -
The start of WW2 fuels the end of the economic period, as well as FDR's New Deal.
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Germany invades Poland, and makes Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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Germany takes Poland.
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Ended the land-locked "Phony war".
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France falls to Germany.
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Pearl Harbor in Hawaii is bombed by Japanese pilots, which pushed the US into the war. Japan intended to attack the Us's naval fleet, to avoid interference in their planned military actions in southeast asia. A Japanese general famously said they may have "awoken a sleeping giant." That they did. -
Italy, a former ally, is taken after the Fascist Council arrests Mussolini, and puts in Badoglio, who immediately folds to Germany, and surrenders. Germany then takes Rome and Italy, and frees Mussolini, and makes him a "puppet" dictator.
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Allies Liberate Rome, and are able to bomb east Germany for the first time in the war.
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Germany signs a surrender treaty at General Eisenhower's headquarters, ending the war in Germany.
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The first ever nuclear bomb to be detonated in war, and on people or a city, was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the US.
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The second ever nuclear bomb was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, just a day after the first in Hiroshima. This caused mass casualties, the number today is around 50,000. -
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The "war" between USSR and US. The only wars fought in this were proxy wars in Vietnam and Korea. The USSR despised capitalism, and the US despised communism. This also included the Space Race.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is formed, and is immedieatly seen as a threat from Russia, as the countries were like stepping stones to it from the US. -
The People's Republic of China takes over the Republic of China, and becomes a communist country. This does not go against Truman's doctrine, because it did not spread, it came from inside the country. Truman will try to contain Communism spread from China in the future.
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Korean Communists backed by Stalin start to take over the capitalist South Korea. The US joins this war and fights against North Korea, and fights a proxy war against the Soviets at the same time.
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Korean war drags to a stand still, at the 38th parallel, and has never really ended. The country is still split into two, the communist north and the capitalist south, divided by the 38th parallel, a demilitiarized zone. -
Vietnam is split into two countries, the communist north and the capitalist south.
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Sputnik, the first satallite, is put into orbit during the race to space against the US and the USSR -
The first American satellite is launched into orbit, launching the US into the Space Race, a year after USSR's Sputnik. This Satellite was the first to have scientific tools in it. -
The Cuban Dictator rises to power and turns Cuba communist, which is seen as a major win for the USSR in the Cold war, as it now had a place to send troops, and missiles. The US felt threatened by Communist Cuba.
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The Bay of Pigs is an invasion into Cuba by the US, to try to take over Cuba, and overthrow Castro and the communist government.
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The USSR sends nuclear missiles to Cuba, which is seen as a threat by the US, and a play by the USSR to get nukes closer to the US, in case they are provoked to nuke the US.
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The US ends the space race by landing on the moon, putting people on the moon.
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The communist North defeats the democratic South, after the US pulls out of Vietnam. The two countries become one communist nation.
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Countries like Hungary, Lithuania, Ukraine gained independence from the Soviets, and the USSR effectively dissolves, the main country left behind being the Russian Federation. The Cold War ends.