The 20th Century

Assassination at Sarajevo

Jun 28, 1914

WWI

Period: Jun 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

German troops invaded Belgium

Aug 3, 1914

Battle of the Marne

Sep 28, 1914

.Both sides take up trench positions by end of year.

Italy declared war on Austria

1915

Germans attack Ypres

Apr 22, 1915

Gas first used

Conscription.

1916

Compulsory military service in Britain.

Germans attack at Verdun.

Dec 21, 1916

Russian revolution

1917

Russia becomes the first communist country.

Usa enters on side of Allies.

Apr 2, 1917

Russia drops out of the war

1918

Civil war in Russia

Period: 1918 to 1922

Cease fire

Nov 11, 1918

The treaty of Verailles is signed.

Jun 28, 1919

Lenin dies.

1924

Stalin takes power over Russia.

1928

American great depression

1929

Hitler becomes the leader of Germany.

1933

Germany leaves the league of nations

1933

Spanish civil war

1936

Anexation of Austria

1938

The night of the broken glass

Dec 9, 1938

Jewish shops and houses destroyed

The Nazi-Soviet pact

1939

WWII

Period: 1939 to 1945

The outbreak of WWII

Sep 1, 1939

itler launched his attack on Poland. Within a few weeks, Poland was defeated.

Italy enters the war.

1940

Winston Churchill becomes first minister.

May 10, 1940

Japan attacks USA.

1941

The Japanese attacked the American base in Pearl Harbor.

Germany attacks Russia.

1941

Operation Barbarossa

Hitler began the policy of the "Final Solution"

1941

The battle of midway

1942

The Normandy landings.

1944

The D day.

The fall of Hitler's Germany.

May 7, 1945

WWII ended.

Aug 2, 1945

First atomic bomb.

Aug 6, 1945

The Marshal aid.

1947

Indian indepedence.

1947

The cold war

Period: 1947 to 1991

NATO was founded.

1949

Vietnam war

1955

The Berlin wall was built.

Aug 13, 1961

The Berlin wall falls

1991