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El ejército francés detiene el avance alemán en el Marne, río de
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Batalla de Ypres. Los británicos detendrían el intento alemán de conquistar Bélgica en esta batalla. Marcaría el fin del ejército regular británico. Las trincheras harían su aparición y las fronteras se mantendrían invariables durante los cuatro años que duró la guerra. Turquía entra en la guerra.
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Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria-East, was Archduke of Austria, Imperial Prince of Austria, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, and, from 1896 until his death, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
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World War I, formerly called the Great War, was a wartime confrontation centered in Europe that began on July 28, 1914, and ended on November 11, 1918, when Germany accepted the terms of the armistice.
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The Schlieffen Plan was to quickly overrun the French troops in the north, by a quick attack through the Netherlands (Holland), before Russia - an ally of the Triple Entente - could mobilize its troops and go on the offensive, forcing Germany to fight on two fronts.
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Alemania invade Bélgica para poder pasar hacia Francia. De
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Alemania, al mando del General Von Hindemburg derrota a los
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Se abrió en 1914 después de que el ejército del Imperio alemán invadiera Bélgica y Luxemburgo, por lo que consiguió el control militar de importantes zonas industriales de Francia. El avance del Imperio sufrió un giro dramático luego de la primera batalla del Marne, donde venció la alianza entre Francia y el Reino Unido.
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Italia se unió a la Segunda Guerra Mundial en junio de 1940 como aliada de Alemania, con ansias de establecer un nuevo imperio italiano. Italia ocupó territorio en Yugoslavia (1941), Grecia (1941) y una pequeña porción del sur de Francia (1942).
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También llamada el “Infierno de Verdún” que se cobró setecientas mil víctimas entre las filas alemanas y francesas.
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Ascensión al trono del Imperio Austrohúngaro de Carlos I de Austria y IV de Hungría tras el fallecimiento de Francisco José I de Austria, su muerte fue el símbolo de la caída de la dominación decimonónica
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El término Revolución rusa agrupa todos los sucesos que condujeron al derrocamiento del régimen zarista imperial y a la instauración preparada de otro, leninista republicano, entre febrero y octubre de 1917, que llevó a la creación de la República Socialista Federativa Soviética de Rusia.
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On Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the stock crashed. In a span of two days over $30 billion was lost and many argue that this was the beginning of the Great Depression.
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In February 1932, due to the economic hardships of the Great Depression, major riots broke out in Minneapolis and soon spread across the country. They involved Americans looting merchants and resorting to violence as poverty continued to increase.
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This program was developed between 1933 and 1938 with the aim of supporting the poorest strata of the population, reforming the financial markets and revitalizing an American economy wounded since the crash of 1929 by unemployment and chain bankruptcies.
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On March 4, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the 32nd President of the United States. FDR promised that programs would be created throughout his "First 100 Days" and dedicated his first years in office to fix the problems of the Great Depression.
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On March 12, 1933, FDR broadcasts his first "fireside chat" on American radio. These "fireside chats" provided millions of Americans with information about the current state of affairs and a great sense of confidence that their government had not abandoned their hardships.
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On June 13, 1933, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was created. The role of the FDIC was to provide insurance to Americans that money deposited in U.S. banks would be repaid in the event of another market collapse. This corporation led to greater confidence in the U.S. banking system.
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World War II was a global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. It involved most of the world's nations - including all the major powers, as well as virtually all European nations - grouped into two opposing military alliances: the Allies on the one hand, and the Axis powers on the other, the Allies on the other.
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Germany and Italy arbitrate a decision on the division of the province of Transylvania, disputed between Romania and Hungary. The loss of northern Transylvania forces King Carol of Romania to abdicate in favor of his son, Michael, and brings to power a dictatorship under General Ion Antonescu.
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Yugoslavia surrenders on April 17. Germany and Bulgaria invade Greece in support of the Italians. Resistance in Greece ceases in early June 1941
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The leaders of the terrorist movement Ustasha proclaim the so-called Independent State of Croatia.
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Las tropas japonesas desembarcan en Filipinas, la Indochina francesa (Vietnam, Laos, Camboya) y el Singapur británico. En abril de 1942, Filipinas, Indochina y Singapur se encuentran bajo ocupación japonesa.
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Japan, having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, formally surrenders and World War II ends.