Most important events in XXth century

  • Madero arrives to power.

    Madero arrives to power.
    Madero was elected president of Mexico, serious political opposition from remmants of the old-guard regime and military.
  • Assassination of Madero

    Assassination of Madero
    Madero was arrested in February 18 and he was executed four days later. Huerta then turned on his fellow conspirators and made himself president.
  • Beginning of WW1

    Beginning of WW1
    Was a fought between the Allied Powers and the Central Powers. The main members of the Allied Powers were France, Russia and Britain.
  • Socialist Russian Revolution

    Socialist Russian Revolution
    It was the first of two revolutions of Russia in 1917. It was centered on Petrograd (now St. Petersburg),
  • Publication of the 14 points of WOODROW WILSON.

    Publication of the 14 points of WOODROW WILSON.
    The 14 points was a statement o principles for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations to end WW1. The principles were outlined in January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by president Woodrow Wilson.
  • End of WW1

    End of WW1
    The member countries of the Central Powers signed armistice agreements one by one. Germany was the last, signing its armistice on November 11, 1918
  • Beginning of the government of Obregon

    Beginning of the government of Obregon
    Obregon's presidency was the first stable presidency since the Revolution began in 1910. He oversaw massive educational reforms, moderate land reform, and labor laws sponsored by the increasingly powerful Regional Confederation of Mexican Workers.
  • Beginning of Mussolini's government

    Beginning of Mussolini's government
    By 1922, as Italy slipped into political chaos, Mussolini declared that only he could restore order and was given the authority.
  • Hitler arrives to power

    Hitler arrives to power
    Adolph Hitler led his nazi followers in an abortive attempt to seize power in Munich in what became known as the "Beer Hall putsch"
    Although the plan failed, and Hitler impresoned, the notoriety the Nazi leader gained laid the groundwork for his rise to the dictatorship of Germany.
  • Stalin arrives to power

    Stalin arrives to power
    After Lenin died in 1924, Stalin eventually outmaneuvered his rivals and won the power struggle for control of the Communist Party.
  • Beginning of the Cristero movement

    Beginning of the Cristero movement
    Widespread struggle in many central-western Mexican states against the secularist, anti-Catholic, and anticlerical policies of the Mexican government. The rebellion was set off by enactment under President Plutarco Elías Calles of a statute to enforce the anticlerical articles of the Mexican Constitution of 1917.
  • 1ST government of Maximato.

    1ST government of Maximato.
    The Maximato was a period in the historical and political development of Mexico ranging form 1928 to 1934.
    That period was named after Plutarco Elias Calles, who was known as the Jefe Supremo of the Mexican Revolution.
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression
    It was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world.
  • Beginning of Cárdenas governmet

    Beginning of Cárdenas governmet
    Best known for nationalization of the oil industry in 1938 and creation of Pemex, the government oil monopoly.
  • Beginning of WW2

    Beginning of WW2
    Was a war fought from 1939 to 1945 in Europe and during much of the 1930s and 1940s in Asia.
  • Harry Truman arrives to power

    Harry Truman arrives to power
    Best known for giving the order of throwing the atomic bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, president Truman government have been critizised a lot.
  • Atomic bombs over Japan

    Atomic bombs over Japan
    During World War II an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
    The explotion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; thousand more would later die odf radiation exposure.
  • Formation of the State of Israel

    Formation of the State of Israel
    On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day.
  • Berlin Airlift (Blockade)

    Berlin Airlift (Blockade)
    One of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutsche mark from West Berlin.
  • Chinese revolution triumphs

    Chinese revolution triumphs
    Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China.
  • The Korean War

    The Korean War
    It was a war between North and South Korea, the war arose the division of Korea into South and North Korea.
  • Beginning of the participation U.S in Vietnam War

    Beginning of the participation U.S in Vietnam War
    In 1961, South Vietnam signed a military and economic aid treaty with the United States leading to the arrival (1961) of U.S. support troops and the formation (1962) of the U.S. Military Assistance Command.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. It played out on television worldwide and was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.
  • The Prague Spring

    The Prague Spring
    The Prague Spring was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II.
  • Massacre in Tlatelolco

    Massacre in Tlatelolco
    It was the killing of an estimated 30 to 300 students and civilians by military and police on October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City.
  • The Latin American Debt Crisis

    The Latin American Debt Crisis
    The Latin American debt crisis was a financial crisis that originated in the early 1980s (and for some countries starting in the 1970s), often known as the "lost decade", when Latin American countries reached a point where their foreign debt exceeded their earning power and they were not able to repay it.
  • Ronald Reagan arrives to power

    Ronald Reagan arrives to power
    American politician and actor, who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Prior to his presidency, he served as the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975, following a career as an actor and union leader in Hollywood.
  • Fall of Berlin Wall

    Fall of Berlin Wall
    The Berlin Wall was built by the communist government of East Berlin. The wall separated East Berlin and West Berlin.
  • Soviet invasion to Hungary

    Soviet invasion to Hungary
    The Soviet occupation of Hungary, following its defeat in World War II, lasted for 45 years, the length of the Cold War. Starting March 1990 the Red Army was leaving Hungary, with the last troops withdrawn from Hungary.