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Bolshevik Revolution
in October
Lenin overthrows Provisional Gov -
Period: to
Russian Civil War
Reds (Bolsheviks) vs Whites (Aristocrates) -
Brest-Litvosk treaty
Russia loses 1/4 of its territory and 1/3 of its population -
"Dicktat"
Versailles Treaty -
Bolcheviks win
Bolsheviks take control over Russia -
Creation of NSDA
Nazi Party
paramilitary -
creation of Facsiste party
Fasciste National Party
Italy
far right -
March on Rome
Mussolini -
Lenin dies
Stalin takes over the power -
Squadrists
new paramilitary formation -
Italian Dictatorship
led by Mussolini -
Period: to
Fascist Laws
supression of individual liberties
All power to the leader (Mussolini) -
1st 5-year Plan
USSR
develop heavy industry
collectivizing agriculture -
Latran Pact
pope supports Mussolini
Mussolini gives territory around Rome to pope -
Black Thursday
Start of WALL STREET CRASH
First wave of panic selling. Around 12.9 million shares traded -
Black Monday
Massive sell off resumed. Market dropped nearly 13% in 1 day -
Black Tuesday
Worst day of crash - over 16 million shares traded + market lost another 12%. Start of Great Depression -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
in the US. Raises import taxes - worsenes global depression -
Creditanstalt's bankrupcy
Austria's largest bank fails spreading crisis to Europe -
invasion of Manchuria
by Japan
for resources found -
Period: to
Holodomor
Famine in Ukraine
4.5 to 8 billion deaths -
Dearborn Massacre
suburb of Detroit -
New Deal launch
Roosevelt's New Deal
Welfare State
- Social protection spending rises 160% btw 32 and 33
- Social Security
- Unemployment insurance -
London Conference
in July -
Hitler = Chancellor
Germany -
Reichstag
used to suspend civil liberties -
Enabling Act
Hitler has dictatorial powers -
Night of Long Knives
elemination of SA by SS -
Nuremberg Laws
Strips Jews from their rights -
Matignon Agreement
Wage increases
union rights
collective agreements
- end of strikes -
invasion of Ethiopia
by Italy -
Period: to
Popular Front
Léon Blum
Welfare State
40h week instead of 45h
2 weeks paid holiday
improved cultural access -
Roosevelt Recession
recession within depression
(temporary eco decline - trade and ind activity is reduced) -
creation of Estado Novo
Getulio Vargas -
Period: to
Great Terror
Goulag
NKVD -
Anschluss
Annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany -
Period: to
Munich Agreement
Germany, Italy, France, UK
Germany can take the Sudetenland and keep Austria but has to stop their invasion there. -
Period: to
Sudentenland annexation
by Nazi Germany -
Period: to
"Kristallnacht"
Night of Broken Glass:
Jewish synagogues, shops, homes, and belongings destroyed.
Jews flee (5000 jews to 2500 jews) -
annexation of Albania
by Italy -
Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
Non-aggression pact between nazi germ and soviet union
secret part: division of countries dividing them; germany gets 2/3 of Poland and USSR gets 1/3 of Poland and Baltic Sates in case of war -
invasion of Poland
by Germans -
start of WWII
France and UK declare war to Germany -
invasion of Poland
by USSR, they feel morally obligated -
End of "phoney war"
Germany invades France through Belgium, the Luxembourg, and the Netherlands in June -
new french Prime Minister
Marshal Philippe Pétain replaces Paul Reynaud -
Appeal of 18 June
by de Gaulle from London -
Armistice
btw France and Germany
creation of the occupied zone and free zone -
Period: to
Battle of Britain
UK vs GER -
Operation Barbarossa
Germany invades USSR -
Babi Yar Massacre
-
attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan attacks USA naval base in Hawaii -
US declaration of war on Japan
-
El-Alamein
November
Lybia vs Egypt (Ger vs UK)
Rommel vs Montgommery - Rommel flees/deserts -
UN against Axis
Reunion in Washington -
question of the "final solution"
Wansee Conference -
Period: to
Battle of Midway
USA vs Japan
naval battle in the Pacific fought almost entirely with aircraft which ended Japanese invasion in the Pacific. -
Period: to
Vel' d'Hiv Roundup
Vélodrome d'Hiver
over 13000 Jews (including children) arrested and later sent to extermination centres such as Dachau -
Period: to
Operation Torch
Allied invasion of French North Africa -
Adolf Hitler's suicide
-
Period: to
Tehran Conference
Allies knew they were going to win
Q = when? how? -
D-Day
Overlord Operation
Normandy Landing -
Period: to
Battle of Normandy
-
Period: to
Operation Bagration
Soviets take back control of USSR and go until Berlin -
Bretton-Woods Conference
US dollar = international monetary system
gold standard is back
creation of World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) -
Liberation of Paris
-
Period: to
Thirty Glorious Years
-
Period: to
Yalta Conference
agreement on division of Germany -
German Capitulation
VE Day - victory in europe -
UN charter in SF
51 states signed -
Period: to
Potsdam Conference
Allow allies to plan postwar peace but tension arises -
A-Bomb n°1
on Hiroshima -
A-Bomb n°2
on Nagasaki -
VJ-Day
victory over Japan -
End of War
official Japanese capitulation -
decolonization of Philippines
americans -
Zhdanov doctrine
anti-imperialist -
"Iron Curtain" speech
Winston Churchill -
cominform
-
decolonization of India and Pakistan
brits -
Truman Doctrine
anti-communist -
GATT
treaty for free trade and lower customs duties -
Marshall Plan
$13B -
Czechoslovak coup
-
Universal declaration of Human Rights
-
Period: to
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
Airlift = response to blockade, landings every 45sec w/ up to 6000 tons supplies/day -
USSRs 1st A-bomb
-
Arms Race
-
decolonization of Indonesia
dutch -
Mao Zedong Victory
-
NATO
-
Period: to
Korean War
-
Suez Crisis
-
Armistice (of Korean War)
No peace treaty -
decolonization of Vietnam
french after 1st Indochina War -
anti-war sentiment in Fr after Algerian War
-
Period: to
Algerian War
-
Bandung Conference
-
Warsaw Pact
Eastern European military alliance -
Period: to
Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans refuse to ride buses in Montgomery due to segregation -
Period: to
Vietnam War
-
decolonization of Ghana
brits -
Little Rock Nine
first nine af amer to intgrate "white" school in Arkansas -
sputnik satelite
USSR -
Laika launchend in space in sputnik 2.0
USSR -
Kitchen Debate
-
Nigeria
Brits -
Yuri Gagarin in space
USSR -
Non Aligned Movement (NAM)
-
Belgrade Conference
-
Period: to
Berlin Wall
-
Period: to
25 civil rights workers murdered during "Freedom Summer" efforts
-
Cuban Missile Crisis
13 days in oct
90 miles from US coast -
Birmingham church bombing
4 girls killed -
JFK assassinated
Lyndon B Johnson = pres -
Feminine Mystique
published by Betty Friedan -
"I have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King Jr
March On Washington -
UNCTAD
-
G-77
-
Brazilian Coup
-
Civil Rights Act
no discrimination based on sex, race, and religion -
Freedom Summer
-
6 day War
-
"Bloody Sunday"
attack on civil rights movement activists by police -
Voting Rights Act
-
Black Panther Party
group of Black Power Movement -
Period: to
Chinese Cultural Revolution
-
NASA
US -
Tet Offensive
escalation and one of the largest military campaigns during vietnam war -
Richard Nixon became President
-
MLK Jr assassinated
-
Protest against Miss America Pageant
-
Apollo Program
1st man on moon -
Stone Wall Riots
start of modern LGBTQ rights -
economic crisis
-
anti-racist orga in France
MRAP
LICRA -
"immigrant rights" movement in France
-
Kent State University Shooting
National Guard kills 4 students -
SALT treaty 1
limit arms -
Ms Magazine
founded by Gloria Steinem -
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) passes Congress
-
Title IX
adress gender discrimination in education -
Yom Kippur War
-
legal abortion in the first trimester
using Roe V Wade's supreme court case -
Mao dies
-
Helsinki conference
borders
human rights -
legal abortion in France
Simone Veil -
Deng Xiaoping takes power
-
SALT treaty 2
limit arms -
Iranian Revolution
goes to an islamic state -
Period: to
war in Afghanistan
-
Chernobil explosion
-
fall of USSR
end of Cold War