The 20th century.

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    Russia and Japan at war

  • The Triple Entente is signed.

  • The Kaiser sends a gunboat to Morocco.

  • The Balkans.

    Greece, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria attacked the Ottomans and drove them out of most of the Balkans.
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    WWI

  • Austria declares war on Serbia.

  • Assassination at Sarajevo.

    Assassination at Sarajevo.

  • Germany declares war on Russia.

  • Battle of the Marnes

    Battle of the Marnes

    Both sides take up trench positions.
  • Gas first used.

    Gas first used.

  • German and Austrian troops advance into Russia.

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    Gallipoli Campaign

  • Lusitania.

    Lusitania.

    American passenger liner is sunk by German U-Boat.

  • Italy declares war on Autrio-Hungary.

  • German troops invade Belgium.

  • British conscription.

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    Turnip winter.

  • German attack on French at Verdun.

  • The battle of Jutland.

  • Battle of Somme.

    20.000 killed on one day. A few kilometeres gained.

  • Rasputin is murdered.

  • Russia drops out of the war.

    Russia drops out of the war.

  • Lenin arrives at Russia and declares his opposition to Kerensky.

    Lenin arrives at Russia and declares his opposition to Kerensky.

  • The Bolsheviks trie to get control of Russia but fail.

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    Lenin rules Russia.

  • First Russian Revolution

    First Russian Revolution

  • The Tsar abdicates

    The Tsar abdicates

  • Usa enters on side of Allies.

    Usa enters on side of Allies.

  • October revolution

  • Battle of Cambrai.

    Battle of Cambrai.

    Tanks were used and the Allies made significant advance.
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    Russian civil war.

  • Treary of Bret-Litovsk.

  • The Tsar and all his family are shot.

  • Cease fire.

    Cease fire.

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    The Weimar Republic: The governent of Germany.

  • The Treaty of Versailles is signed.

    The Treaty of Versailles is signed.

  • Prohibition in USA

    Prohibition in USA

  • The Nazi party was born.

    The Nazi party was born.

  • Famine in Russia.

  • Russian sailor mutiny.

  • NEP.

  • Black Friday.

    Black Friday.

  • French occupation of the Ruhr

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    The stresemann years.

  • Hitler tries to take power. He fails and goes to prison.

  • USA agrees to send money to Germany.

  • Britain returns to the "Gold standard"

  • Red Friday.

  • Germany joins the League of Nations

  • The SS is formed.

    The SS is formed.

  • General strike in Britain.

  • Stalin gains complete control of Russia.

    Stalin gains complete control of Russia.

  • Stalin's attack on the kullaks.

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    First Five-year Plan.

  • The Wall Street Crash.

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    Collectivisation in Russia.

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    Rearmament of Germany.

  • The Salt March

    The Salt March

  • Germany leaves the League of Nations.

  • Reichstag fire.

    Reichstag fire.

  • The night of the long knives.

  • Goering builds up the Luftwaffe (airforce)

    Goering builds up the Luftwaffe (airforce)

  • New Government of India Act.

  • Olympic Games in Germany.

    Olympic Games in Germany.

  • Edward VIII avdicates and his brother becomes King George VI

    Edward VIII avdicates and his brother becomes King George VI

  • Reoccupation of the Rhineland

  • Spanish Civil war.

  • Japan joins the Anti-comintern pact.

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    Stalin's purges.

  • Japan invades China

  • Anexation of Austria.

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    Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland had been taken into Germany.

  • Appeasement.

  • The night of glass.

    The night of glass.

  • The Nazi-Soviet pact.

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    WWII

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    Blitzkrieg tactics.

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    The Phoney war.

  • Churchill becomes Prime Minister.

    Churchill becomes Prime Minister.

  • Fall of western Europe

  • The battle of Britain for the control of the air.

  • The Blitz

    The Blitz

  • France is attacked by the Germans.

  • Dunkirk: Operation Dynamo

    Dunkirk: Operation Dynamo

  • Hitler's Final Solution.

    Hitler's Final Solution.

  • Italy attacks Greece.

  • Operation Barbarossa.

    Operation Barbarossa.

  • Russia counterattacks and drives Germans back.

  • USA and Lend-Lease

  • Japan attacks India.

  • Jappan attacks the Americans at Pearl Harbor

    Jappan attacks the Americans at Pearl Harbor

  • The Battle of the Coral Sea.

    The Battle of the Coral Sea.

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    The bombing of Germany

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    Operation Torch

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    Battle of Stalingrad

  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

  • The Allies invade Sicily

  • The Teheron conference.

  • The bomb plot against Hitler.

    The bomb plot against Hitler.

  • MacArthur invades the Philippines.

  • The Normandy landings.

    The Normandy landings.

  • Postdam meeting.

    Postdam meeting.

  • Yalta conference.

  • The end of the War.

    The end of the War.

  • Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima

    Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima

  • Atomic bomb is dropped in Nagasaki

    Atomic bomb is dropped in Nagasaki

  • Japan surrenders

  • American containment Policy

  • Marshal aid.

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    The Cold War.

  • The USSR is in control of half Europe

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    War in Israel.

  • NATO is formed.

  • China becomes Communist.

  • North Korean war

  • North Korean troops invade South Korea.

  • Vietnam Revolution

  • Warsaw Pact

  • The Suez crisis.

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    Vietman war.

  • The bay of pigs.

    The bay of pigs.

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    The Berlin Wall

  • The missile crisis

    The missile crisis

  • The six days war.

  • Terrorism at the Olympic Games at Munich

    Terrorism at the Olympic Games at Munich

  • Yom Kippurluar

  • Indira Gandhi rules as a dictator.

    Indira Gandhi rules as a dictator.

  • Palestinians in refugee camps are massacred.

  • Indira Gandhi is assassinated

  • Fall of the USSR

    Fall of the USSR