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The assassination led directly to the First World War when Austria-Hungary subsequently issued an demand against Serbia, which was partially rejected. Austria-Hungary then declared war, marking the outbreak of the war.
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Overthrowing of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. It took place with a coup de tat in Petrograd.
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A multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army. Many foreign armies warred against the Red Army, these in included the Allied Nations.
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A peace treaty signed between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey), that ended Russia's participation in World War I.
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The newly founded parliament formally abolished the Sultanate,.. The Treaty of Lausanne of 24 July 1923 led to the international recognition of the sovereignty of the newly formed "Republic of Turkey" as the continuing state of the Ottoman Empire.
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Was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. The crash signalled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries.
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Nonviolent rebellion against the leaders from Great Britain. Involved refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of Britain.
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Not much is known his death other than he was killed by the Nicaraguan National Guard. Also, following his death, his army fell.
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Was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1934 to 1940. It involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials of alleged capitalists.
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Was the state seizure of all oil reserves, facilities, and foreign oil companies in Mexico on March 18, 1938. It took place when President and General Lázaro Cárdenas declared that all mineral and oil reserves found within Mexico belong to the nation.
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A major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the south-western Soviet Union. The Soviet Union prevailed.
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The largest amphibious invasion in world history and was executed by land, sea and air elements under direct Anglo-American. Included 73,000 Americans, 61,715 British and 21,400 Canadians.
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Bombings Japan were done by the United States during the final stages of World War II in August 1945. The two bombings were the first and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in wartime.
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The final major offensive of the European Theatre of WWII. Before the battle was over, Adolf Hitler and a number of his followers committed suicide.
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The victorious Allied Powers reached the Potsdam Agreement on the fate of postwar Europe, calling for the division of defeated Germany into four temporary occupation zones.
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An intergovernmental organization established to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was created following the WWII to prevent another such conflict.
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Fought between the State of Israel and a military coalition of Arab states and Palestinian Arab forces. The conflict triggered important demographic changes in the area and through the Middle East.
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The Arab League members Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq refused to accept the UN partition plan and proclaimed the right of self-determination for the Arabs across the whole of Palestine. The Arab states marched their forces into what had, until the previous day, been the British Mandate for Palestine.
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The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
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Commonly known as China, it is a sovereign state located in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population of over 1.35 billion. The PRC is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party.
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Racial segregation in South Africa. It was enforced through legislation by the National Party governments.
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A war between France and the Algerian independence movements from 1954 to 1962. It led to Algeria gaining its independence from France.
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An alliance of the USSR and its sattelite nations that would help each other in war. It was the rival to NATO.
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A diplomatic and military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other, with the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations playing major roles in forcing Britain, France and Israel to withdraw.
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A nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies.
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A Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from December 1956 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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The worsening of political and ideological relations between the People's Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during the Cold War. In the 1960s, China and the Soviet Union were the two largest Communist states in the world.
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A Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976. He also served as the Commander in Chief of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces.
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It started with the border with West Berlin being closed. East German troops and workers had begun to tear up streets running alongside the border to make them impassable to vehicle
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The Palestine Liberation Organization is an organization founded in 1964 with the purpose of creating an independent State of Palestine. It is recognized as the "ole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.
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The events involving the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who was supported by the United States, and its eventual replacement with an Islamic republic under the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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The withdrawal of Soviet combatant forces from the Afghanistan began on 15 May 1988 under the leadership of Colonel-General Boris Gromov.
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The process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany, and when Berlin reunited into a single city.
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The increasing political unrest led the establishment of the Soviet military and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to attempt a coup de tat to oust Mikhail Gorbachev and re-establish a strong central regime in August 1991.
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The transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China and marked the end of British rule in Hong Kong.