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Trans-Siberian Railway built
Czar Alexander III was the one who ordered the start of construction in the Trans-Siberian railroad. -
Czar Nicholas II became the leader of Russia
Czar Nicholas II was the last ruler of the Romanov family and the last Czar to rule Russia. -
Russian Marxists split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
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. -
Russo-Japanese war began
The war started when the Japanese navy attacked the Russian fleet at Port Arthur. -
Bloody Sunday in Russia
Bloody Sunday was when imperial forces opened fire on protesting workers in front of the czar's winter palace in St. Petersburg. -
Kuomintang was created
The Kuomintang was the nationalist party in China who were led by Sun Yixian. -
March Revolution in Russia
The March Revolution is also known as the February Revolution and the Spring Revolution. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicated
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. -
The Bolshevik Revolution
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. -
Russian Civil War began
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. -
Vladimir Lenin became the leader of Russia
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). -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk brought about the end of the war between Russia and Germany in 1918. -
May Fourth Movement Began
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, -
The Weimar Republic was established in Germany
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. -
The League of Nations was created
The League of Nationswas an intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. -
New economic policy enforced in Russia
The New Economic Policy was an economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who called it "state capitalism". -
Adolf Hitler becamethe leader of the Nazi Party
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. -
Washington Conference
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. -
Benito Mussolini became the leader of Italy
King Victor Emmanuel, fearing that the March on Rome would lead to a civil war, gave Mussolini the post of Prime Minister. -
Russia became the USSR
Russia became the USSR in the year 1922 and ended in the year 1991. -
Sun Yixian became president of China
Sun Yixian was also the leader of the kuomintang and is known as the father of modern China. -
Joseph Stalin became leader of the USSR
Trotsky was lined up to be the next ruler but Stalin became the leader after Trotsky was exiled. -
Dawes plan started
The Dawes Plan was an attempt following World War I for the Triple Entente to compromise and collect war reparations debt from Germany. -
Jiang Jieshi became the leader of the Kuomintang
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. -
Adolf Hitler wrote the Mein Kampf
Hitler wrote the Mein Kampf while he was in prison for attempting to start a revolution. -
Hirohito became the emperor of Japan
Hirohito was the first member of the Japanese imperial family to travel abroad. -
Civil war in China began
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 -
Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic
Charles Lindbegh's plane The Spirit of St. Louis took him from New York to Paris. -
Kellog-Briand Pact signed
This Pact said that countries would not resolve their problems with war. -
The Five-Year Plan Began
The five year plan was a list of economic goals made my Joseph Stalin. -
Albert Einstein developed the Theory of Relativity
The Theory of relativity is comprised of two of Einstein's other idea, special relativity and general relativity. -
Stock Market Crash in U.S.
The Stock Market crash was one of the main causes of the Great Depression as the event lost billions of dollars. -
The Great Depression began
The Great Depression was mainly caused by the stock market crash. -
Japan invaded Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria was caused by an arguement over a railway. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt became President of U.S.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected the 32nd president of the United States and this was the first of four terms. -
The holocaust began
The Holocaust left about six million Jews dead all over Europe. -
Adolf Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler was appointed as the chancellor of Germany by President Paul Von Hindenburg. -
The New Deal Started
The New Deal was the set of federal programs launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression. -
The Long March
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. -
Great Purge Began
The Great Purge was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin. -
Hitler Defied the Treaty Of Versailles
Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles by building up his army and moving his troops to Rhineland. -
U.S Congress Passed the Neutrality Acts
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. -
Italy invaded Ethiopia
A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave Italy an excuse to intervene and invade Ethiopia. -
Francisco Franco led a fascist revolt in Spain
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. -
Rome-Berlin Axis
The Rome- Berlin axis was an axis alliance between Germany and Italy. -
Japan invades China
Japan invaded China when they claimed that they were fired on by Chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing -
Rape of Nanking
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. -
Germany reoccupied the Rhineland
Germany reoccuping the Rhineland broke the Treaty of Versailles. -
Anschluss
The Anschluss was the german annexation of Austria. -
Hitler Hosted the Munich Conference
Here Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact, -
Hitler took control of sudetenland
The signing of the Munich Pact basically handed Sudetenland to the Germans. -
Kristallnacht began
Kristallnacht was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact signed
The nazi-soviet pact was a non-aggression pact between germany and russia. -
Sitzkrieg Began
Sitzkrieg was the period at the beginning of the war when there was no fighting as everyone waited for Germany to make a move. -
Germany invaded Poland(Blitzkrieg)
When Germany invaded Poland,1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1750-mile border with German-controlled territory. -
Auschwitz death camp opened
At least 960,000 people were killed at the Auschwitz death camp. -
Winston Churchill became the Prime Minister of GB
Churchill was elected mostly to lead the country through world war II, which he did successfully. -
Allies Evacuate Dunkirk
The evacuation took nine days as Germany took control of the beach. -
Vichy Government established in France
This was the government that was set up in France after they were defeated by Germany. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the intense air battle between the Germans and the British over Great Britain's airspace. -
Tripartite pact signed
The tripartite pact established the axis powers. -
Lend-Lease Act
The lend-lease act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the cade name for the German invasion of the soviet union. -
Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. -
Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
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. -
Chelmno Concentration Camp opened
About 150,000-300,000 people were killed at chelmno. -
The U.S declared war on Japan
Pearl Harbor eas the final push that got the United States to enter the war. -
Hitler enacted the Final Solution
The final solution was Hitler's plan to annihilate the jewish people. -
Nisei were interned in relocation centers in the U.S.
The American-born japanese people in the U.S. were moved to relocation camps because of American distrust of the Japanese during the war. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war. -
Doolittle raids over Japan
The Doolittle raid was the first U.S. air raid to strike the Japanese home islands during WWII. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
The battle was the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway effectively destroyed Japan’s naval strength when the Americans destroyed four of its aircraft carriers. -
Battle of El Alamein
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. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
The battle of Guadalcanal was codenamed Operation Watchtower. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The battle of Stalingrad left over 2 million people dead between military and civilians. -
Manhattan Project began
The Manhattan project was a research development project that produces the first atomic bombs. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was the name given to the Allied invasion of French North Africa. -
Casablanca Conference
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. -
Allies landed in Sicily
Within three days of the landing over 150,000 allied troops were in Sicily. -
Island Hopping Campaign
Island Hopping was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II. -
Tehran Conference
The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill -
Operation Overload (d-day)
Operation Overlord was the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. -
Gen. Macarthur Returned to the Philippines (Leyte Gulf)
After having been evacuated from leyte earlier in the year, he returned to lead his troops to victory. -
Kamikaze Pilots Appear in the Pacific
Kamikaze pilots were Japanese pilots in World War II who made deliberate suicidal crashes into enemy targets. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major Nazi offensive of the war. -
Yalta Conference
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, -
Battle of Iwo Jima
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. -
Battle of Okinawa
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. -
Mussolini was executed
After Mussolini was executed people walked by and spit on his corpse. -
Hitler Committed Suicide
Hitler commited suicide in an underground bunker by shooting himself with a pistol. -
Germany Surrendered
Germany surrendered when Berlin was surrounded and Hitler commited suicide. -
V-E day
This day marked allied victory in Europe. -
Potsdam Conference
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. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
Little boy was the name of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. -
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki
Fat Man was the name of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. -
V-J Day
V-J day is tha day that Japan surrendered. -
Japan Surrendered
The surrender of Japan signifies the end of world war II. -
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg trials were the trials of Nazi leaders.
