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Alexander III, enamored with the idea of the Trans-Siberian, instructed his son to start the building of the great railroad through Siberia "in order to unite the rich yields of Siberian nature with the network of Russian railways".
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he Russo-Japanese War (8 February 1904 – 5 September 1905) was "the first great war of the 20th century.'
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The sunday that was bloddy lots of death
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revolution in russia
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During the February Revolution, Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia since 1894, is forced to abdicate the throne on this day in 1917
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Russia’s economy was in horrible shape thanks to the war effort. Demonstrators went to the Russian capital in Petrograd ordering to overthrow the Czar Nicholas in March 8.
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Many foreign armies warred against the Red Army, notably the Allied Forces and the pro-German armies.The Red Army defeated the White Armed Forces of South Russia in Ukraine and the army led by Aleksandr Kolchak in Siberia in 1919.
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Led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin, leftist revolutionaries launch a nearly bloodless coup d'État against Russia's ineffectual Provisional Government.
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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 NEP represented a more capitalism-oriented economic policy, deemed necessary after the Russian Civil War of 1917 to 1922, to foster the economy of the country, which was almost ruined.
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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.
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The Dawes Plan of 1924 was formulated to take Weimar Germany out of hyperinflation and to return Weimar’s economy to some form of stability.
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After Sun's death in 1925, Chiang became leader of the KMT.
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It was a blueprint of his agenda for a Third Reich and a clear exposition of the nightmare that will envelope Europe from 1939 to 1945.
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He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship.
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Hirohito, referred to as Emperor Shōwa in Japan, was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death in 1989.
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Lindenbergh flew in a plane named the spirit of St louis that landed near Paris /France. He was the first to complete a solo flight across the atlantic ocean.
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The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an agreement to outlaw war signed on August 27, 1928.
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Years after the death of Vladamir Lenin, Stalin took controlos the soviet union USSR
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The depression originated in the U.S., after the fall in stock prices that began around September 4, 1929, and became worldwide news with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929 (known as Black Tuesday).
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he Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 19, 1931, when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident.
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The Japanese launched an invasion of China proper, launching the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 32nd President of the United States.
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second in command
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The Long March saved Mao Zedong and the Communist Party from the attacks by the Guomingdang.
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The Great Purge was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1934 to 1939.
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The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.
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The Great Purge was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1934 to 1939.
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Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland
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The remilitarization of the Rhineland by the German Army took place on 7 March 1936 when German military forces entered the Rhineland.
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Francisco Franco remained the fascist dictator of Spain until his death
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The Axis powers, also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or the Axis, were the nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces.
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Mass raping and murder of Chinese men and women in the city of Nanking by the Japenese soldiers who too over the city.
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Political union of Austria with Germany, achieved through annexation by Adolf Hitler in 1938.
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German occupation of Czech.
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Known as the night of broken glass. this was a government backed or anti jewish agreement or outbrak of violence against the jews. It extended through the 10th of November 1938.
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Also known as the night of the broken glass was a government backed program of violence against the Jewsl
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Nazi and soviets would not fight for at least 10 yrs
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sitting war
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One of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives after coming to power was to sign a nonaggression pact with Poland in January 1934.
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Vichy France, officially the French State, was France during the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain, during World War II, from the German victory in the Battle of France to the Allied liberation in August 1944
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The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940.
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the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
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The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued in August 14,1941 that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world.
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The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued in August 14,1941 that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world.
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Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.
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It was here that the first mass killings of Jews by gas took place as part of the 'Final Solution'.
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The U.S. declared war on Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Auschwitz concentration camp was 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.
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The Bataan Death March was the forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese during World War II.
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Sixteen B-25 bombers took off from the deck of the USS Hornet, led by (then Col.) Jimmy Doolittle. They were to fly over Japan, drop their bombs
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The first air naval battle in history. America waged battle against the japanese to prevent their occupation of one of the Solomon Islands called Tulagi in order to break their defensive perimeter. This battle later effected the Battle of Midway.
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The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war.
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By the end of the battle on February 9, 1943, the Japanese had lost two-thirds of the 31,400 army troops committed to the island, whereas the U.S. Marines and the U.S. Army had lost less than 2,000 soldiers of about 60,000 deployed.
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Successful Soviet defense of the city of Stalingrad.
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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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Simply put, the Manhattan Project was committed to expediting research that would produce a viable atomic bomb.
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Island hopping is the crossing of an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands, as opposed to a single journey directly to the destination.
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Yes much confrence
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Operation Overlord[7] was 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.
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During World War II, nearly 4,000 kamikaze pilots were killed.
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Costly battle
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The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was fought on the Ryukyu Islands of Okinawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War Region.
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Mussolini was arrested and executed while trying to escape to Switzerland.
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Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin.
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This was the second atomic bomb that was dropped 3 days after the first bomb and targeted Nagasaki Japan.
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The destruction from the first bomb dropped at Hiroshima did not convince the Japanese to surrender and so America organized for another bomb to be dropped.
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Celebration of allied victory over Japan in WWII
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The surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, brought the hostilities of World War II to a close.
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Representatives of the four victorious powers, Great Britain, the United States, France, and the Soviet Union, sat in judgment of twenty one Nazi leaders.
