APWH Timeline (1900-now)

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    Russo-Japanese War

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    World War I

  • Bolshevik Revolution in Russia; United States enters World War I

  • Treaty of Versailles ending World War I; founding of the Nazi Party

    Germany was required to pay heavy reparations, its military forces restricted, forced to accept sole responsibility for the war, lost its colonial empire, & lost 15% of its European territory.

  • Zhenotdel (Women's Department) Organization set up

    Push feminist agenda in Russia

  • Treaty of Sèrves, dissolving the Ottoman Empire

  • Founding of the Chinese Communist Party

  • Mussolini comes to power in Italy

  • Beginning of Great Depression

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    Stalin's Rule

  • Hitler assumes power in Germany

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    Long March in China

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    Japan invades China; Beginning of World War II in Asia; Rape of Nanjing

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    World War II; the Holocaust

  • Nazi Germany Annexes Austria and German-Speaking parts of Czechoslovakia

  • Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II in Europe

  • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • D-Day

  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; United Nations created

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    US occupation of Japan

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    Imposition of communist regimes in Eastern Europe

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    Cold War

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    Marshall Plan for Europe

  • NATO

  • Communist triumph in China

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    Korean War

  • European Economic Community est.

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    China's Great Leap Forward and massive famine

  • Cuban Revolution

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

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    US-Vietnam War

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    China's Cultural Revolution

  • Prague Spring: communist reform movement in Czechoslovakia

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    Cambodian Genocide

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    Deng Xiaoping and beginnings of communist reforms in China

  • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

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    Gorbachev reforms in uSSR

  • Collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe

  • Economic contraction in the former Soviet Union and economic expansion in China

  • Dissolution of the USSR

  • European Union est.

  • Introduction of the Euro

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    Communist North Korea acquires nuclear weapons

  • Fidel Castro steps down as leader oc communist Cuba

  • United States proposes to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba

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