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The Trans-Siberian railway is the longest single rail system in Russia. It connected Moscow to Vladivostok.
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Nicholas II was the last Emperor of Russia.
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The Kuomintang was the ruling political party in Taiwan.
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Japan won this war due to its superior naval strength and tactics. This war also conrtibuted to Japans rise as a great power.
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Albert Einstein Developed the Theory of Relativity in 1905.
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Bloody Sunday was when unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were fired upon by soldiers.
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Sun Yixian was a Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China.
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The Bolsheviks were the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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His reign saw Russia go from being one of the great powers of the world to economic and military collapse.
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In the March Revolution, the old regime was replaced by a provisional government which was then replaced with a Bolshevik government.
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The Russian Civil War was fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army.
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The Bolshevik Revolution was a seizure of state power.
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk got Russia out of World War One.
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The Weimar Republic was established to replace the imperial form of government.
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This movement was an anti-imperialist movement growing out of student demonstrations, protesting the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles,
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The Treaty of Versailles ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
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The League of Nations was created in an effort to maintain world peace.
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In 1921, Lenin adopted the New Economic Policy in an attempt to bring capital into Russia.
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The Washington Conference was a military conference attended by nine nations regarding interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia.
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The USSR is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Stalin became the leader of the USSR after Vladimir Lenin.
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After the March on Rome in 1922, Mussolini was appointed Prime Minister of Italy.
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Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist.
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Hitler became the leader of the Nazi party right before the Beer Hall Putsch.
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The Dawes Plan was an attempt for the Triple Entente to compromise aand collect war reparations debt from Germany.
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Jiang Jieshi became the leader of the Kuomintang when Sun Yat-sen died on March 12, 1925.
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In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler outlines his plans for Germany.
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Hirohito was the 124th Emperor of Japan.
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The Chinese Civil War was fought between forces loyal to the government and forces of the Communist Party of China.
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Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly the Atlantic alone.
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The Five-Year Plan was a series of centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union.
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This was when certain states promised not to use war to resolve disputes or conflicts which may arise among them.
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The Great Depression began after the stock market crashed on Black Tuesday.
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The stock market crash of 1929 was the beginning of the great depression.
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Japan Invaded China because of a military conflict between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan.
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This was an attempt by the Japanese empire to take control of Manchuria and eventually take control of all of east Asia.
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The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States.
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Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Hindenburg.
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FDR served as the 32nd president of the U.S.
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The Great Purge was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union.
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The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of China to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang army.
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These acts ensured that the U.S. would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts.
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Italy invaded Ethiopia for military occupation.
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This event was significant because it violated the Treaty of Versailles.
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This revolt was between the Republicans and the Nationalists.
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The Rome-Berlin Axis was an alliance formed between Italy and Germany.
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The Rape of Nanking was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Nanking.
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Anschluss was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany.
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At the Munich Conference there was a settlement reached which permitted Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia.
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It was a series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany.
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Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions are known as the Sudetenland.
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The Nazi-Soviet Pact stated that neither Germany nor the USSR would ally with or aid an enemy of the other party.
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The German's invasion of Poland resulted in France and Britain declaring war on Germany. This started World War II.
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The Sitzkrieg was a phase early in World War II that was marked by a lack of military operations by the Western Allies.
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It was a network of concentration camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas.
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Churchill became prime minister following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain.
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The Dunkirk evacuation was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk.
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The Vichy Government was established in France during the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain.
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The Battle of Britain was when the Germans tried to invade Britain but were unsuccessful.
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The Tripartite Pact was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany which established the Axis Powers of World War II.
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This was a program in which the United States supplied allied nations with material.
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Operation Barbarossa was Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union.
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The final solution was Nazi Germany's plan to exterminate the Jewish people in Nazi Europe.
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This was a statement that defined the Allied goals for the post-war world,
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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor led to the United States' entry into World War Two.
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The Kamikaze were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels.
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The U.S declared war on Japan after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
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This was a Nazi German extermination camp set up for the process of Germanization.
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The Japanese American internment was the internment of over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived in the U.S.
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The Bataan Death March was the transfer of Filipino and American prisoners.
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The Doolittle Raid was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo.
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This was the first battle between aircraft carriers.
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The Battle of Midway was when the United States successfully destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers.
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The Battle of El Alamein halted a second advance by the Axis forces into Egypt.
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The Holocaust was the persecution and slaughter of approximately 6 million Jews.
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U.S. marines seized a Japanese airfield.
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This was the project in which the first atomic bombs were developed.
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This battle was when Nazi Germany fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad.
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Operation Torch was the British-American invasion of North Africa.
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This was a conference held to plan the Allied strategy for the next phase of World War II.
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The Allies landed in Sicily to take it from the Axis Powers.
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The idea of Island Hopping was to concentrate the limited Allied resources on important islands that were not well defended.
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The Tehran Confernce was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill.
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Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy to fight Nazi Germany.
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The Battle of Leyte was the amphibious invasion of the Gulf of Leyte by American guerrilla forces.
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The Battle of the Bulge was a major German surprise attack on the Allied forces.
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The Yalta Conference was the meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization.
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This was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima.
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This battle resulted in the highest number of deaths in the Pacific during the war.
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After Benito Mussolini was shot by Italian partisans, his body was hung upside down and was publicly displayed.
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When Soviet troops were within a block of the Reich Chancellery, Hitler committed suicide by shooting himself.
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Germany surrendered shortly after Hitler committed suicide.
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V-E day was the public holiday to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies, of Nazi Germany's surrender of its armed forces.
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Gathering to decide how to punish the defeated Nazi Germany.
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A uranium gun-type atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
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An estimated 40,000 people were killed due to the atomic bomb.
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The Imperial Japanese Navy was incapable of conducting operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.
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V-J day is the name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered.
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These trials were held in Nuremberg and were for the prosecution of Nazi Germany.
