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Czar Alexander III was the one who ordered the start of construction in the Trans-Siberian railroad.
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Czar Nicholas II was the last ruler of the Romanov family and the last Czar to rule Russia.
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The Marxists split because Mensheviks believed that they had to wait for the revolution to happen naturally and Bolsheviks believed that they had to make the revolution happen.
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The war started when the Japanese navy attacked the Russian fleet at Port Arthur.
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Bloody Sunday was when imperial forces opened fire on protesting workers in front of the czar's winter palace in St. Petersburg.
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The Kuomintang was the nationalist party in China who were led by Sun Yixian.
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The March Revolution is also known as the February Revolution and the Spring Revolution.
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During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, was forced to abdicate the throne by the Petrograd insurgents, and a provincial government was installed in his place.
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The Bolshevik Revolution was a revolution in Russia in 1917–1918, also called the October Revolution, that overthrew the czar and brought the Bolsheviks, a Communist party led by Lenin, to power.
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The Russian civil war was a conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies.
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Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary leader and theorist, who presided over the first government of Soviet Russia and then that of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk brought about the end of the war between Russia and Germany in 1918.
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The May-Fourth Movement was 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,
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The Weimar Republic is the name used to refer to the new federal republic and democracy that was born in 1919 following the abdication of the Kaiser in late 1918.
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The League of Nationswas an intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
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The New Economic Policy was an economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who called it "state capitalism".
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Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945.
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The Washington Conference was a military conference called by President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922.
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King Victor Emmanuel, fearing that the March on Rome would lead to a civil war, gave Mussolini the post of Prime Minister.
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Russia became the USSR in the year 1922 and ended in the year 1991.
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Sun Yixian was also the leader of the kuomintang and is known as the father of modern China.
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Trotsky was lined up to be the next ruler but Stalin became the leader after Trotsky was exiled.
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The Dawes Plan was an attempt following World War I for the Triple Entente to compromise and collect war reparations debt from Germany.
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He first became the Commandant of the Kuomintang's Whampoa Military Academy and took Sun's place as leader of the KMT when Sun died in 1925.
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Hitler wrote the Mein Kampf while he was in prison for attempting to start a revolution.
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Hirohito was the first member of the Japanese imperial family to travel abroad.
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The Chinese Civil War was a civil war in China 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
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Charles Lindbegh's plane The Spirit of St. Louis took him from New York to Paris.
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This Pact said that countries would not resolve their problems with war.
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The five year plan was a list of economic goals made my Joseph Stalin.
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The Theory of relativity is comprised of two of Einstein's other idea, special relativity and general relativity.
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The Stock Market crash was one of the main causes of the Great Depression as the event lost billions of dollars.
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The Great Depression was mainly caused by the stock market crash.
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The Japanese invasion of Manchuria was caused by an arguement over a railway.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected the 32nd president of the United States and this was the first of four terms.
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The Holocaust left about six million Jews dead all over Europe.
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Adolf Hitler was appointed as the chancellor of Germany by President Paul Von Hindenburg.
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The New Deal was the set of federal programs launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression.
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The Long March was 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.
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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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Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles by building up his army and moving his troops to Rhineland.
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The United States Government enacted this series of laws designed to prevent the United States from being embroiled in a foreign war by clearly stating the terms of U.S. neutrality.
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A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Italy an excuse to intervene and invade Ethiopia.
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Francisco Franco broadcast his manifesto announcing a full military rebellion, and the uprising began on the mainland that same morning with him in control of the Spanish army.
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The Rome- Berlin axis was an axis alliance between Germany and Italy.
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Japan invaded China when they claimed that they were fired on by Chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing
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The Nanking Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Germany reoccuping the Rhineland broke the Treaty of Versailles.
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The Anschluss was the german annexation of Austria.
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Here Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact,
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The signing of the Munich Pact basically handed Sudetenland to the Germans.
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Kristallnacht was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany.
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The nazi-soviet pact was a non-aggression pact between germany and russia.
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Sitzkrieg was the period at the beginning of the war when there was no fighting as everyone waited for Germany to make a move.
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When Germany invaded Poland,1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1750-mile border with German-controlled territory.
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At least 960,000 people were killed at the Auschwitz death camp.
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Churchill was elected mostly to lead the country through world war II, which he did successfully.
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The evacuation took nine days as Germany took control of the beach.
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This was the government that was set up in France after they were defeated by Germany.
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The Battle of Britain was the intense air battle between the Germans and the British over Great Britain's airspace.
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The tripartite pact established the axis powers.
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The lend-lease act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
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Operation Barbarossa was the cade name for the German invasion of the soviet union.
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The Atlantic Charter defined the Allied goals for the post-war world.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor more than 2,400 Americans were dead, 21 ships had either been sunk or damaged, and more than 188 U.S. aircraft destroyed.
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About 150,000-300,000 people were killed at chelmno.
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Pearl Harbor eas the final push that got the United States to enter the war.
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The final solution was Hitler's plan to annihilate the jewish people.
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The American-born japanese people in the U.S. were moved to relocation camps because of American distrust of the Japanese during the war.
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The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war.
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The Doolittle raid was the first U.S. air raid to strike the Japanese home islands during WWII.
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The battle was the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other.
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The Battle of Midway effectively destroyed Japan’s naval strength when the Americans destroyed four of its aircraft carriers.
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The battle of El Alamein a battle in World War II resulting in a decisive Allied victory by British troops under Montgomery over German troops under Rommel.
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The battle of Guadalcanal was codenamed Operation Watchtower.
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The battle of Stalingrad left over 2 million people dead between military and civilians.
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The Manhattan project was a research development project that produces the first atomic bombs.
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Operation Torch was the name given to the Allied invasion of French North Africa.
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The Casablanca Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the city of Casablanca, Morocco.
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Within three days of the landing over 150,000 allied troops were in Sicily.
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Island Hopping was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II.
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The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill
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Operation Overlord was the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces.
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After having been evacuated from leyte earlier in the year, he returned to lead his troops to victory.
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Kamikaze pilots were Japanese pilots in World War II who made deliberate suicidal crashes into enemy targets.
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The Battle of the Bulge was the last major Nazi offensive of the war.
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The Yalta Conference was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union,
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The Battle of Iwo Jima , was a 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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After Mussolini was executed people walked by and spit on his corpse.
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Hitler commited suicide in an underground bunker by shooting himself with a pistol.
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Germany surrendered when Berlin was surrounded and Hitler commited suicide.
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This day marked allied victory in Europe.
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The Big Three Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Prime Minister Clement Attlee, and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
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Little boy was the name of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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Fat Man was the name of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
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V-J day is tha day that Japan surrendered.
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The surrender of Japan signifies the end of world war II.
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The Nuremberg trials were the trials of Nazi leaders.
