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Trans-Siberian railway built
This is when the Trans-Siberian railway was built. -
Czar Micholas II became the leader of russia
Nicholas was neither trained nor inclined to rule, which did not help the autocracy he sought to preserve in an era desperate for change. -
Russian marxists split into mensheviks & bolsheviks
This is when marxists split into mensheviks and bolsheviks. -
Russo-Japanese war begins
War between Russia and Japan. -
Bloody Sunday in Russia
St Petersburg, Russia, where unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard, approaching the city center and the Winter Palace from several gathering points. -
Sun Yixian became president of china
This is when Sun Yixian became president of china. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty to get Russia out of WWI. -
March Revolution in Russia
The Emperor was forced to abdicate and the old regime was replaced by a provisional government during the first revolution of February 1917. -
March Revolution in Russia
The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, -
The bolshevik revolution
In the second revolution, during October, the Provisional Government was removed and replaced with a Bolshevik (Communist) government. -
Weimer Republic established in germany
The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the federal republic and semipresidential representative democracy established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government. -
May Fourth Movement began
Chinese protested and started a revolution. -
The League of Nations was created
It was an intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. -
Adolf Hitler bacame leader of the nazi party
This is when Adolf Hitler became leader of the nazi party. -
NEP
The NEP (New Economic Policy) was cslled State Capitalism. -
Washington Conference
Meeting between representatives of 9 nations with interests in the Pacific; November, 1921 and February, 1922. -
Joseph Stalin became leader of the USSR
Joseph Stailin gained power in the USSR. -
Benito Mussilini
Benito Mussilini lead The March on Rome and ousted Prime Minister Luigi Fasta. -
Russia became the USSR
This is when Russia changed its name to the USSR. -
Vladimir Lenin became the leader of Russia
Lenin becomes leader and turns Russia communists. -
Dawes Plan
The Dawes Plan was an attempt following World War I for the Triple Entente to compromise and collect war reparations debt from Germany. -
Mein Kampf
This was Hitler's autobiography. -
Civil war in China began
The Chinese Civil War was a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the government of the Republic of China led by the Kuomintang (KMT) and forces of the Communist Party of China (CPC). -
Five year plan began
Stalin industrial plan. -
Kellog-Briand Pact signed
This is when the Kellog-Briand Pact was signed. -
Stock market crash
Stocks plunged and the Great Depression started. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade before World War II. -
Anschluss
The Anschluss was among the first major steps of Adolf Hitler's creation of a Greater German Reich which was to include all ethnic German and all the lands and territories which the German Empire had lost after World War I. -
Japan invaded Manchuria
This is when Japan invaded Manchuria. -
The holocaust began
This is when Adolf Hitler was appointed German chancellor, setting in motion what would become the Nazi genocide against the Jews. -
Adolf hitler became the chancellor of germany
This is when Hitler become chancellor.of germany. -
The new deal started
This is when the new deal started. -
The long march
This was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China. -
U.S. congress passed the neutrality acts
The Neutrality Acts were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. -
Italy invaded ethiopia
This is when Italy invaded Ethiopia. -
Great Purge began
The Great Purge was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1934 to 1939. -
Rome-Berlin axis
Coalition formed in 1936 between Italy and Germany. -
Rape of Nanking
The Nanking Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Nanking -
Hitler hosted munich conference
This is when munich conference was hosted by Hitler. -
Adolf Hitler took the Sudentenland
This is when Hitler took Sudtenland. -
Kristallnacht began
That night in Germany, thousands upon thousands of Jews were subject to terror and violence by the Nazis. Over 1,000 Jewish synagogues and over 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed, and approximately 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and taken to concentration camps. -
Nazi-soviet pact signed
On August 23, 1939, representatives from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other. -
Germany invaded Poland
This was the invasion by Germany and the Soviet Union that started WWII. -
Adolf Hitler defies the Treaty of Versailles
Adolf Hitler defied the Treaty of Versailles and started WWII -
sitzkrieg began
This is when sitzkreig began. -
Vichy Government established in France
Vichy France, officially the French State (l'État français), was France during the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain, during World War II, from the German victory in the Battle of France (July 1940) to the Allied liberation in August 1944. -
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was the German air force's attempt to gain air superiority over the RAF from July to September 1940. -
Triparite Pact Signed
The Tripartite Pact, also called the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact or Tripartite Treaty was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II. -
Lend-Lease act
The Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa (German: Fall Barbarossa, literally "Case Barbarossa"), beginning 22 June 1941, was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. -
Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter was a joint declaration released by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 following a meeting of the two heads of state in Newfoundland. -
Japanese attacked pearl harbor
This is when the Japanese attacked pearl harbor. -
Kamikaze pilots appear in the pacific
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The U.S. Declared war on Japan
The U.S. Declared war on Japan on December 8, 1941. -
Chelmno Concentration camp opened
This was a German concentration camp. -
Hitler enacted the Final solution
Hitler's final solution for Germany. -
Bataan death march
Was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. -
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. -
Battle of Midway
This is the battle that turned to tide of the war against Japan. -
Battle of Alamein
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Battle of Guadacanal
This battle was the first major offensive battle for the Allies. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast) was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942. -
Casablanca Conference
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. -
Allies landed in sicily
On July 10, 1943, the Allies begin their invasion of Axis-controlled Europe with landings on the island of Sicily, off mainland Italy. -
Jiang Jieshi
Jiang Jieshi became leader of the Koumintang in 1925. -
Tehran Conerence
The Tehran Conference (codenamed Eureka[1]) was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943. -
Operation Overload (D Day)
This is when the allies invaded German territory. -
Battle of the bulge
The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down. -
Battle of Iwo Jima
The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. -
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals. -
Benito Mussolini
This is when Benito Mussolini was executed. -
Hitler commited suicide
Hitler killed himself at the end of WWII. -
Germany surrendered
Germany surrenders WWII. -
Battle of Okinawa
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 of World War II. -
Manhattan project began
The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945. -
Atomis bomb dropped on Nagasaki
U.S, dropped an atomic bomb on Japan. -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event.
