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Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
They were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia. -
German resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare
U- Boat Campaign... -
Bolshevik Revolution
This was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd traditionally dated to 25 October 1917. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia (and the Central Powers that ended Russia's participation in World War I. The treaty was signed at Brest-Litovsk after two months of negotiations. -
Paris Peace Conference
This was a peace conference in Paris that discussed all the world affairs at the time. -
Civil war in Russia
This was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army, the loosely allied anti-Bolshevik forces. Many foreign armies warred against the Red Army, notably the Allied Forces and the pro-German armies -
Ataturk proclaims Republic of Turkey
These were a series of political, legal, cultural, social and economic policy changes that were designed to convert the new Republic of Turkey into a secular, modern nation-state. -
US stock market crash
A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors. They often follow speculative stock market bubbles. -
Stalin's "Great Purge" in USSR
The Great Purge 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, repression of peasants and the Red Army leadership, and widespread police surveillance, suspicion of "saboteurs", imprisonment, and arbitrary executions -
Hitler is ruer in Garmany
Hitler is a horrible ruler and a cruel person. -
Cardenas nationalizes oil industry in Mexico
This was the expropriation of all oil reserves, facilities, and foreign oil companies in Mexico on March 18, 1938. -
German invasion of USSR
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German Auschluss with Austria
Austria was annexed into the German Third Reich on 12 March 1938. There had been several years of pressure by supporters in both Austria and Germany. -
Invasion of Poland by Germany
The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War or the Fourth Partition of Poland in Poland and the Poland Campaign or Fall Wei in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. -
Long March by Chinese Communists
Thi was a Long March by Chinese Communists -
Invasion of China by Japan
China invaded Japan.... and overall defeated them! -
Soviet victory at Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad 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. Marked by constant close quarters combat and disregard for military and civilian casualties, it is amongst the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare. The heavy losses inflicted on the Wehrmacht make it arguably the most strategically -
Mussolini launches fascist movement in Italy
This is the original fascist ideology, as developed in Italy. The ideology is associated with the National Fascist Party, which under Benito Mussolini ruled the Kingdom of Italy from 1922 until 1943, the Republican Fascist Party that ruled the Italian Social Republic from 1943 to 1945, the post-war Italian Social Movement and subsequent Italian neo-fascist movements. -
D-Day, Allied invasion at Normandy
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Capture of Berlin by Soviet forces
The Battle of Berlin, designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, was the final major offensive of the European Theatre of World War II. -
Partition Of India
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Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted 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. -
First meeting of the League of Nations
This was an intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. -
Civil disobedience movement in India
The independence movement saw various national and regional campaigns, agitations and efforts, some nonviolent and others not so. -
Division of Berlin and German
The Berlin wall was put up to divide Berlin from the rest of Germany. -
Apartheid in South Africa
A system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation by the National Party governments, the ruling party from 1948 to 1994. -
Arab-Israeli War
This war was fought between the State of Israel and a military coalition of Arab states and Palestinian Arab forces. This war formed the second stage of the 1948 Palestine war. -
Establishment of NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.... Helped defend needy nations! -
Creation of Israel
The history of Israel encompasses the history of the modern State of Israel, as well as that of the Jews in the Land of Israel. The area of modern Israel is small, about the size of Wales or half the size of Costa Rica, and is located roughly on the site of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah except that these ancient kingdoms also included what is now the West Bank. -
Establishment of People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China details the history of mainland China since October 1, 1949, when, after a near complete victory by the Communist Party of China in the Chinese Civil War, Mao Zedong -
First Soviet Five-Year Plan
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Establishment of United Nations
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French defeat at Dien Bien Phu
This was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. It was from the French view before the event, a set piece battle to draw out the enemy and destroy them with superior French firepower. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that influenced negotiations over the future of Indochina at Geneva. -
The Algerian War for Liberation
A war between France and the Algerian independence movements from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria gaining its independence from France. -
Establishment of Warsaw Pact
This was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Suez crisis
This was 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. -
Uprising in Hungary
This was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. -
Gallipoli campaign
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Construction of Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. -
Transfer of British Hong Kong to China
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Castro comes to power in Cuba
He was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and President from 1976 to 2008. -
Creation of PLO
The Palestine Liberation Organization is an organization founded in 1964 with the purpose of creating an independent State of Palestine. -
May 4th Movement in China
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Lenin's New Economic Policy
This was an economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who called it "state capitalism". -
Korean War
This was a war between north korea and south korea. -
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Japa n invaded machura to gain independence and expirence. -
US Troops in Vietnam
This was 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. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies—and the government of South Vietnam—supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies. -
Japan makes Twenty-one Demands on China
Japan made 21 demands on china to repay all the damage. -
Revolution in Iran
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Sandino is murdered in Nicaragua
Sandino, a african polotician was murdered on a trip to Nicaragua -
Great leap forward in China
China saw great industrialization and modernity in about 2 years -
Iran-Iraq war
Started as a dispute but ended in war. -
Soviet withdrawl from Afghanistan
The withdrawal of Soviet combatant forces from the Afghanistan began on 15 May 1988 and successfully executed on 15 February 1989 under the leadership of Colonel-General Boris Gromov who also was the last Soviet general officer to walk from Afghanistan back into Soviet territory through the Afghan-Uzbek Bridge. -
Persian Gulf War
This was a war in the persian gulf to settle differances. -
Reunification of Germany
Germany was re- unified after the trety of versales. -
Collapse of USSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) formally ceased to exist on 26 December 1991. The increasing political unrest led the establishment of the Soviet military and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to attempt a coup d'état to oust Mikhail Gorbachev and re-establish a strong central regime in August 1991