Timeline: History Revision Semester 1

Jan 1, 1901

Australian Federation
Apr 14, 1912

Sinking of the Titanic
Jul 28, 1914

Outbreak of WWI
Oct 24, 1917

Formation of the USSR and the creation of the first Communist country

(Exact date not known)
Jun 29, 1919

End of WWI - Treaty of Versailles
Oct 24, 1929

Wall Street Crash
Sep 3, 1939

Outbreak of WWII
Feb 4, 1945

Yalta Conference

How to win the war?
Jun 8, 1945

Cold War Begins

No Exact Date of commencement
Jun 9, 1945

Formation of the UN
Jul 17, 1945

Potsdam

How to win against Japan?
Aug 9, 1945

End of WWII
May 5, 1946

Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech
Mar 12, 1947

Truman Doctrine issued

(By Harry S. Truman)
Apr 3, 1949

The Marshall Plan is implemented
Apr 4, 1949

NATO is formed
Aug 29, 1949

USSR create nuclear weapons
Oct 1, 1949

China becomes Communist
Jun 25, 1950

Outbreak of the Korean War
Jul 27, 1953

End of the Korean War
May 14, 1955

The Warsaw Pact is formed
Apr 30, 1959

Outbreak of the Vietnam War
Aug 13, 1961

Erection of the Berlin Wall
Aug 2, 1962

US and Australian troops sent to Vietnam
May 12, 1964

Beginning of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement
Aug 18, 1971

Withdrawal of Australian troops from the Vietnam War
Apr 30, 1975

Vietnam War ends - Communist rebel groups take over the entire country

Australian Federation