-
A network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan.
-
the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Duke of Finland, and titular King of Poland.
-
the ruling political party in Republic of China
-
The one party splits into two parties.
-
"the first great war of the 20th century."[4] It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea.
-
unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard, approaching the city center and the Winter Palace from several gathering points.
-
first president and founding father of the Republic of China ("Nationalist China"). As the foremost pioneer of Republic of China, Sun is referred to as the "Father of the Nation" in the Republic of China (ROC), and the "forerunner of democratic revolution" in the People's Republic of China
-
Russian workers demanded better wages.
-
The First World War had cost Russia millions of lives. Those not actually fighting had to face serious food shortages. The winter of 1916-17 was very cold and fuel was in very short supply. Cold and lack of food create an environment that lead to trouble for those blamed for these problems
-
ruler of Russia since 1894, is forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government is installed in his place.
-
a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917
-
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
-
a peace treaty on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia (the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey), which ended Russia's participation in World War I
-
an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4, 1919, protesting the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, especially allowing Japan to receive territories in Shandong which had been surrendered by Germany after the Siege of Tsingtao.
-
established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government.
-
or simply relativity in physics, usually encompasses two theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity
-
An economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who called it "state capitalism".
-
Between 1921 and 1922, the world’s largest naval powers gathered in Washington for a conference to discuss naval disarmament and ways to relieve growing tensions in East Asia.
-
The leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.
-
He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. Known as Il Duce ("the leader"), Mussolini was one of the key figures in the creation of fascism.
-
a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as the leader of the Russian SFSR from 1917, and then concurrently as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1922, until his death
-
a socialist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991, governed as a single-party state by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital.
-
An autobiographical manifesto by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, in which he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.
-
An attempt following World War I for the Triple Entente to compromise and collect war reparations debt from Germany.
-
Hitler rose in the ranks quite fast and became the leader of the Nazi-Party and eventully the country.
-
He became the leader of the kuomintang
-
the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death in 1989.
-
fought between forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China led by the Kuomintang (KMT) and forces of the Communist Party of China
-
Flew a prize-winning solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
-
a list of economic goals, created by General Secretary Joseph Stalin and based off his policy of Socialism in One Country.
-
Led by Mussolini, italy sought to invade and conquer Ethiopia.
-
An international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them".
-
the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout.[2] The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries
-
A severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II.
-
the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.
-
a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938
-
commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 32nd President of the United States.
-
A military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) army.
-
A campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1934 to 1939.
-
He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945.
-
Hitler announced that Germany would not obey the restrictions set in the treaty
-
in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts.
-
violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany.
-
fought from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939 between the Republicans, who were loyal to the democratically elected Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists, a rebel group led by General Francisco Franco.
-
the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, throughout the German Reich and German-occupied territories
-
The Japanese invaded China proper, launching the Second Sino-Japanese War. (July 1937). The Japanese Kwantung Army turned a small incident into a full-scale war.
-
an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War
-
The occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938
-
a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined
-
A pogram against Jews in Nazi-Germany.
-
The conquest of Czechoslovakia became Hitler's next ambition.
-
The nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces.
-
representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other.
-
Germany defeated Poland in a matter of weeks, and this caused Britian and France to declare war on Germany.
-
a phase early in World War II that was marked by a lack of major military operations by the Western Allies (the United Kingdom and France) against the German Reich.
-
a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II
-
Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is called to replace Neville Chamberlain as British prime minister following the latter's resignation after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons.
-
also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
-
"Air battle for England" is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940.
-
also the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact or Tripartite Treaty was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II.
-
Was a program under which the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel.
-
the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II
-
A research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II.
-
Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to systematically exterminate the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe, which resulted in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe.
-
pivotal policy statement issued in August 14,1941 that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by the leaders of Britain and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies.
-
Japan sunk 4 battleships in Pearl Harbor in just 2 hours.
-
The U.S. declared war on Japan after they bombed Pearl Harbour.
-
Known to the Germans as the Kulmhof concentration camp, was a Nazi German extermination camp situated 50 kilometres (31 mi) from Łódź, near a Polish village.
-
"War Relocation Camps" of over 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States
-
an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army who was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II
-
began on April 9, 1942, was 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
-
an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II, the first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands
-
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
-
The Battle of Midway in the Pacific Theater of Operations was one of the most important naval battles of World War II.
-
There were two battles of El Alamein in World War II, both fought in 1942.The Battles occurred in North Africa in Egypt in and around an area named after a railway stop called El Alamein
-
Codenamed Operation Watchtower by Allied forces, it was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943, on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II, it was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.
-
was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942.
-
Was held to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. In attendance were United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and representing the Free French forces, Generals Charles de Gaulle, and Henri Giraud.
-
codenamed Operation Husky, was a major World War II campaign, in which the Allies took Sicily from the Axis Powers
-
Russia defeated Germany, thought to be the turning point of the war in Europe.
-
An intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
-
Hop from one strategic island to the next until you reach the mainland Japan.
-
a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943
-
The code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces.
-
during the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain, during World War II, from the German victory in the Battle of France (July 1940) to the Allied liberation in August 1944
-
suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy warships more effectively than was possible with conventional attacks.
-
The last german offensive in WW2.
-
codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization.
-
The biggest amphibious battle of WW2, considered the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
-
Fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II.
-
Italian dictator Mussolini was executed along with his family.
-
Committed suicide after he realized Germany would lose the war.
-
Germany agreed to an unconditional surrender to end WW2 in Europe.
-
Victory of Europe Day. When the war officially ended in Europe.
-
Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. The three powers were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill,[4] and, later, Clement Attlee,[5] and President Harry S. Truman
-
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
-
Also called "little boy" , got Japan to surrender.
-
the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II
-
Also called J-V Day. Japan finally surrendered.
-
a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. The trials were held in the city of
