Europe By joshuabowyer 1903 First Tour De France 1914 Archduke Fernenhand dies Period: 1914 to 1918 World War I 1915 Albert Einstein makes the formula of general relativity 1918 Spanish flu starts 1919 Treaty of Versia is formed Period: 1919 to 1921 Poland Russia war 1922 Benito Mussolini rises to power 1925 Benito Mussolini's dictatorship begins Period: 1930 to 1940 Great Depression 1933 Germany pulls out of the league of nations 1934 Adolf rises to power 1938 Kristallnacht Period: 1939 to 1945 World War II 1940 The Blitz Begins 1943 The battle of Stalingrad 1944 Liberation of Paris 1944 D-Day 1949 Creation of NATO 1952 Queen Elizabeth the second becomes the reigning monarch 1955 Death of albert Einstein 1965 Death of Winston Churchill 1969 Concorde 001 flies from the first time 1988 1988 Construction of the british-france tunnel begins 1995 Establishment of the World Trade Organization