History Revision Semester 1

Australian Federation

Jan 1, 1901

Sinking of the Titanic

Apr 14, 1912

Outbreak of WWI

Jul 28, 1914

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

Oct 24, 1917

(Exact date not known)

End of WWI - Treaty of Versailles

Jun 29, 1919

Wall Street Crash

Oct 24, 1929

Outbreak of WWII

Sep 3, 1939

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

How to win the war?

Cold War Begins

Jun 8, 1945

No Exact Date of commencement

Formation of the UN

Jun 9, 1945

Potsdam

Jul 17, 1945

How to win against Japan?

End of WWII

Aug 9, 1945

Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech

May 5, 1946

Truman Doctrine issued

Mar 12, 1947

(By Harry S. Truman)

The Marshall Plan is implemented

Apr 3, 1949

NATO is formed

Apr 4, 1949

USSR create nuclear weapons

Aug 29, 1949

China becomes Communist

Oct 1, 1949

Outbreak of the Korean War

Jun 25, 1950

End of the Korean War

Jul 27, 1953

The Warsaw Pact is formed

May 14, 1955

Outbreak of the Vietnam War

Apr 30, 1959

Erection of the Berlin Wall

Aug 13, 1961

US and Australian troops sent to Vietnam

Aug 2, 1962

Beginning of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement

May 12, 1964

Withdrawal of Australian troops from the Vietnam War

Aug 18, 1971

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

Apr 30, 1975