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Nicholas II becamos the leader of Russia.
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They split into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks.
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The Russo-Japanese War was "the first great war of the 20th century.
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The Trans-Siberian Railway is a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan.
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In St Petersburg, Russia, where unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard.
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Einstein created the quantum theory of light, the idea that light exists as tiny packets, or particles, which he called photons.
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He was elected the provisional president of the Republic of China.
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers, which ended Russia's participation in World War I.
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Dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR.
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Dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR.
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He is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents.
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Seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution.
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Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army.
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An anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing.
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Named after Weimar, the city where the constitutional assembly took place.
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Hiteler defies the treaty of Versailles by building up his army.
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The ruling political party in Republic of China.
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The New Econom.ic Policy was enforced in Russia
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Series of nation-wide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union.
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a military conference called by president Warren G.
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Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.
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Benito Mussolini becomes the leader of Italy.
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A union of multiple subnational Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized.
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Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist.
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Charles G Dawes made a plan for the reperations on Germany after WWI
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Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese military and political leader who led the Kuomintangfor five decades.
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Mein Kampf, ("My Struggle") is an autobiographical manifesto by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
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He became the Emperor of Japan.
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Civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China.
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From New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles he travled.
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an agrement to outlaw war.
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The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries.
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In the US, the jobs were hard to get and everything was so expensive.
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the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.
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Hitler Became the Leaderon the Nazi Party.
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He became the Chancellor of Germany.
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When Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany till the war in Europe officially ended.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) became President of the U.S.
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The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States.
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The Long March began Mao Zedong's ascent to power.
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The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
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The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress.
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The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire.
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German military forces entered the Rhineland.
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The Great Purge was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin
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Between the Republicans, who were loyal to the democratically elected Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists, a rebel group led by General Francisco Franco.
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The "Rome–Berlin Axis" became a military alliance in 1939 under the Pact of Steel
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Military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan.
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Episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Austria was annexed into the German Third Reich.
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Leaders of Nazi Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy signed an agreement that allowed the Nazis to annex the Sudetenland.
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Settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia.
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At least 91 Jews were killed in the attacks, and 30,000 were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps.
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Non-aggression pact signed in Moscow
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At 4:45, some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750 mile bordor with German control territory.
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Marked by a lack of major military operations by the Western Allies.
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Network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany.
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Was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France.
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Parliament and the government gathered in the quiet spa town of Vichy, their provisional capital in central France.
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The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces.
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Established the Axis Powers of World War II.
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was a program under which the United States supplied Great Britain.
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Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.
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Defined the Allied goals for the post-war world.
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The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II.
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The camp consisted of two parts: administration section, barracks and storage for plundered goods; burial and cremation site
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A surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States.
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The US dclared war because of the suprize attack on Peal Harbor the day before
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American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army who was Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
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"War Relocation Camps" of over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States.
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Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to systematically exterminate the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe.
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The forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II.
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Air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II.
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Military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II.
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A major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia.
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The Battle of Midway in the Pacific was one of the most important naval battles of World War II.
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The Battles occurred in North Africa in Egypt in and around an area named after a railway stop called El Alamein.
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The landing at Guadalcanal was unopposed - but it took the Americans six months to defeat the Japanese in what was to turn into a classic battle of attrition.
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Major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union.
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The British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign.
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French protectorate plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II.
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Allies took Sicily from the Axis Powers.
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Strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill.
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A 12,000-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving almost 7,000 vessels
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Major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region.
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World War II meeting of the heads of government of the U.S., the United Kingdom and USSR for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization.
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Major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire.
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The Battle of Okinawa was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II.
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His body was then taken to Milan where it was hung upside down at a service station for public viewing and to provide confirmation of his demise.
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Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot in his Führerbunker in Berlin.
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The first Instrument of Surrender was signed at Reims, at 02:41 Central European Time (CET).
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The act of military surrender was signed in Reims, France and in Berlin, Germany.
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Appeared in the Pacific for attacts againts the U.S.
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Decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany.
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A uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy) was dropped on Hiroshima.
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Plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki.
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Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II.
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Brought the hostilities of World War II to a close.
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The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II.
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He became the prime minister of Great Britain.
