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A stampede occurs in Moscow during festivities following Nicholas IIs coronation. This resulted in the death of 1,300 people.
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Oil was discovered in Iran and the best oil producers are Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwait.
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Germany declares war on Russia, with Russia entering the First World War.
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Archdukes assasination in Sarajevo is the event that sparked World War I
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The Germans fired shells with gas and its the first time gas had been used in battle.
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German submarine sinks the passenger liner Lusitania. The ship held 128 Americans.
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The British employed the first tanks used in battle at Delville Wood.
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With the rise of Zionism, the movement of Jewish holy land, the Balfour Declaration favored the national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.
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Germany had officially surrendered to the US On June 28, 1919, Germany and the allied nations agreed to sign the Treaty of Versailles ending the war.
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The League of Nations gives Britain a mandate to administer Palestine.
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The holocaust is when Jews were massacred by Germans and their leader Adolf Hitler because Hitler hated Jews.
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When Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939, France and Britain declared war on Germany.
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Operation Neptune, top secret military attack formed by the ally forces to take back Normandy/France.
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The United States detonated two bombs on these Japanese cities August 6 and 9 of 1945.
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The countries that fought with Hitler had lost land and had to pay reparations to the allies. Germany and its capital Berlin were divided into four parts.
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Victory in Europe as Germany surrenders to the Russian Army.
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The Soviet Union blocked the western allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under western control.
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Israel proclaims its independence and becomes the first Democratic State in the Middle East.
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The Korean War was between North and South Korea. The war began when North Korea invaded South Korea.
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Treaty of friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union.
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The US and Soviets had an intense rivalry about space and who could get the farthest.
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October Crisis of 1962, a 13 day confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union concerning about American ballistics missle deployment.
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The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of WW2 in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
