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Contruction of Trans-Siberian Railway began to connect Moscow with Vladivostok.
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Nicholas II, not being trained or inclined to rule, was crowned czar of Russia.
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Russian Marxists split into two different political parties known as Mensheviks and Bolsheviks.
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This war grew out of rival imperail ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea.
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Bloody Sunday was in St. Petersburg, Russia when people began to protest living and working conditions and were shot down by the cossacks.
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Sun Yixian became the first provisional prsident of the Republic of China.
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Kuomintang was a political party governed in China.
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The March Revolution of 1917 in Russia was a series of political upheavals.
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Czar Nicholas the II was forced to step down from the throne and a provisional government was formed afterwards by Alexander Kerensky.
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On November 7 (October 25 on Julian Calender being used at the time) Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin, led leftist revolutionaries in a revolt against the ineffective Provisional Government.
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The Russian Civil war began in Novemeber after the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Vladimir Lenin came into power in Russia.
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers which ended Russia's participation in World War I.
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The Weimar Republic was the federal republic and semipresidential representative democracy established in 1919 to replace the imperial form of government.
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Three thousand students in Beijing held a demontration initiating a protest that rapidly spread across China.
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The League of Nations was an international peace organization.
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Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy in order to revive the economy.
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In 1921 Hitler was named Fuhrer of the Nazi Party.
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This was a military conference called by Warren G. Harding and held in Washington from November 12, 1921 to February 6, 1922.
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Benito Mussolini becomes leader of Italy and is seen as a central figure in the creation of Fascism.
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Russia becomes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
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Joseph Stalin became the official leader of the USSR in 1924 until his death in 1953.
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The Dawes plan was an attenpt to stabalize Weimar Germany's economy.
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After Sun Yixian died, Jiang Jieshi became leader of Kuomintang and joined the Communists to defeat the warlords.
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Mein Kampf is an aoutobiographical manifesto in which Adolf Hitler outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.
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Hirohito became emperor of Japan in 1926 following his father's death.
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The Chinese Civil War began in 1927 and ended on December 22, 1936.
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Lindbergh, at the age of 25, completed the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Signed by the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Japan, and a number of other states.
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Stalin began the Five-Year plan in the Soviet Union in 1928.
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Albert Einstein developed the Theory of Relativity in 1929.
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The Great Depression began in the U.S when the stock market crashed in October.
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The Japanese invaded Manchuria in hopes of gaining more natural resources to support their massive expansion militarization.
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Japan's invasion of China began with the invasion of Manchuria.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for the first of his four terms as president.
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The Holocaust refers to the period of time from when Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany to the time the war ended.
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Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany.
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President Roosevelt put the New Deal into action.
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This was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China to evade the pursuit of Kuomintang army.
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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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Hitler ceased to pay reparations and began to biuld up a secret rearmament.
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Between 1935 and 1937 Congress passed three "Neutrality Acts" that tried to keep the United States out of war.
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In 1935, Italy invaded the weak Ethiopia.
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Hitler ordered German troops to re-enter the Rhineland.
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Francisco Franco led a fascist revolt in Spain in 1936.
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This was a coalition formed between Italy and Germany.
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The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and rape committed by Japanese troops against Nanking during the second Sino-Japanese War.
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Anschluss was part of the propaganda used in 1938 by Hitler and Nazis.
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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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Hitler demanded part of Czechoslovakia at the Munich Conference.
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Kristallnacht was a nationwide, state-sponsored pogram conducted throughout Germany and Austria from the evening of Novemeber 9 through the following afternoon.
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The Nazi-Soviet Pact was an agreement between Germany and Russia that neither would attacl the other for ten years.
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Sitkrieg began when Germany invaded Poland and they went into a "phony war".
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Adolf Hitler declared the German invasion of Poland an act of defense but Britain and France declared war on Germany soon after on September 3.
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Auschwitz Death Camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps established by the Nazis.
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In May 1940 Churchill became prime minister of Great Britain during the war and was the most dominant figure in British politics.
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The Battle of Dunkirk was the defense and evacuation of British and allied forces in Europe.
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France became Vichy France during the regime of Marshal Philippe Petain during WWII.
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Germany, Italy, and Japan became allies after signing the Tripartite Pact forming the Axis Powers.
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The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air superiority over the RAF.
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This was created to aid the Allies in the early years of World War II.
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This was the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
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The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued early in WWII.
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First Nazi extermination camp.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack launched by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base.
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President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan after the Pearl Harbor attack.
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The Final Soultion was Nazi Germany's plan during WWII to systematically exterminate the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe.
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The Island Hopping Campaign was the efforts of the Allies to take the Japanese islands and countries.
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Nisei, US citizens with immigrant Japanese parents, were put into Relocation Centers in the U.S. because they were seen as a threat after the Pearl Harbor attack.
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The surrendered Filipinos and Americans were rounded up by the Japanese and forced to march 65 miles Mariveles to San Fernando.
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The Doolittle Raid was the first U.S. air raid to strike the Japanese home islands in WWII.
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The Battle of the Coral Sea was 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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United States Navy defeated an attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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The Battle of El Alamein was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of WWII.
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The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle in WWII in which Nazi Germany and it's allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad.
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Operation Torch was the invasion of Africa by inexperienced American forces.
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US Marines launched a surprise attack on the Japanese troops and took control of an air base under contruction.
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This was the first war conference between the Allied powers and was held in Casablanca, Morocco
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The Allies began their invasion of Axis-controled Europe with landings on the island of Sicily.
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The Tehran Conference was a a meeting between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill to discuss strategies of the war.
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The day in WWII on which the Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
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Macarthur returned to the Phillippines in 1944 just as he had promised at the start of the war.
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Kamikaze Pilots began to appear in the Pacific, crashing their planes into ships.
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The Battle of the Bulge was not a single battle, it was a major push by the German army during the last winter of WWII.
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The Yalta Conference was a WWII meeting between the heads of state of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union.
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Battle of Iwo Jima, also known as Operation Detachment, 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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Codenamed Operation Iceberg, the Battle of Okinawa was fought on Ryukyu Islands of Okanawa and was the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War of World War II.
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Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, was executed in 1945.
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Adolf Hitler,leader of the Nazi party, committed suicide.
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Germany surrendered during WWII.
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Victory in Europe Day is celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of WWII of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of it's armed forces.
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The Manhattan Project was a research develpoment project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II.
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The Potsdam Conference was a meeting between Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Harry Truman to negotiate terms for the end of WWII.
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The atomic bomb Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima in August of 1945.
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A plutonium implosion-type bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki.
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V-J Day stands for Victory Over Japan Day which was the day Japan surrendered , in effect ending World War II.
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After having two atomic bombs dropped on it in August, Japan surrended soon after in September.
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These trials were held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice .
