Timeline from 1914 to 1945 By history4th Apr 6, 1914 Stabilishment of the Mancomunidad de Cataluña. Jun 28, 1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Period: Jun 28, 1914 to Sep 2, 1945 From 1914 to 1945 Jul 28, 1914 Beginning of the First World War. Aug 4, 1914 German invasion of Belgium and Northern France. May 23, 1915 Italy joined the Allied Powers. Feb 23, 1917 Beggining of the Russian Revolution. Mar 15, 1917 Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II. Apr 6, 1917 The United States joined the Allies. Aug 13, 1917 General strike in Spain. Dec 6, 1917 Russia withdrew from the war. Mar 3, 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Jul 17, 1918 Execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. Nov 7, 1918 Start of the Russian Civil War. Nov 11, 1918 Germany signend the armistice. Nov 11, 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated. Nov 11, 1918 End of the First World War. Jan 18, 1919 The Allied Powers met at the Paris Peace Conference. Jun 28, 1919 Signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Mar 4, 1921 Presidency of Warren G. Harding in the United States. Apr 15, 1921 Foundation of he Spanish Communist Party. Jul 22, 1921 Defeat at Battle of Annual. Oct 25, 1921 Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War. Apr 3, 1922 Stalin becomes Communist Party Secretary General. Dec 30, 1922 Creation of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Aug 2, 1923 Presidency of Calvin Coolidge in the United States. Sep 13, 1923 Military coup led by General Miguel Primo de Rivera. Jan 21, 1924 Stalin becomes leader of the USSR. Jan 22, 1924 Labour government came to power in Great Britain. Jan 31, 1924 Proclamation of the Bolshevik constitution. May 25, 1924 Left-wing electoral victory in France. Jan 3, 1925 Start of Mussolini's dictatorship. May 27, 1926 End of the Rif War. Nov 12, 1927 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, leaving Joseph Stalin with the control of the Soviet Union. May 20, 1928 Social Democrat electoral victory in Germany. Mar 4, 1929 Presidency of Herbert Clark Hoover in the United States. Oct 24, 1929 The Wall Street Crash. Oct 24, 1929 The Great Depression began. Jan 28, 1930 End of the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera. Apr 14, 1931 Proclamation of the Second Republic in Spain. Sep 18, 1931 Japan invaded Manchuria. Dec 9, 1931 Approval of the Spanish constitution. Jul 31, 1932 The Nazis became the biggest party after elections. Sep 21, 1932 Approval of Cataluña's Statute of Autonomy. Jan 30, 1933 Beggining of the Third Reich. Jan 30, 1933 Begining of the Nazi's holocaust. Mar 4, 1933 Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the United States. Nov 19, 1933 Right-wing electoral victory in Spain. Sep 18, 1934 The USSR joins the League of Nations. Oct 4, 1934 General strike in Asturias. Oct 3, 1935 Italy invaded Abyssinia. Feb 16, 1936 Popular Front electoral victory in Spain. Jul 17, 1936 Beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Apr 26, 1937 Bombing of Guernica. Jul 6, 1937 Battle of Brunete in Spain. Mar 12, 1938 Germany annexed Austria and occupied the Sudetenland. Mar 15, 1939 Germany invaded Czechoslovakia. Apr 1, 1939 End of the Spanish Civil War. Aug 23, 1939 Hitler and Stalin signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact. Aug 25, 1939 Great Britain joined France and Poland in an alliance of mutual protection. Sep 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland. Sep 3, 1939 Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. Sep 9, 1940 Italy attacked British military positions in Egypt. Sep 20, 1940 Comes into operation the Nazi concentration camp of Breendonk in Belgium. Oct 23, 1940 Hitler and Franco met in the French city of Hendaye. Apr 6, 1941 Italy and Germany invaded Greece. May 2, 1941 Comes into operation the Nazi concentration camp of Grini in Norway. Jun 22, 1941 Germany attacked the USSR. Dec 7, 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Apr 8, 1942 Comes into operation the Nazi concentration camp of Arbeitsdorf in Germany. Jun 7, 1942 The United States defeated Japanese forces in the Battle of Midway. Nov 2, 1942 Great Britain defeated German forces in the Battle of El Alamein. Feb 2, 1943 Germany surrendered at the Battle of Stalingrad. Feb 9, 1943 The United States won the Battle of Guadalcanal. May 13, 1943 German and Italian forces were defeated in Libya. Sep 15, 1943 Comes into operation the Nazi concentration camp of Vaivara in Estonia. Oct 10, 1943 The Blue Division withdrew from the conflict against the Soviet Union. Jun 6, 1944 The Normandy Landings took place in France. Jan 27, 1945 The Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp. Feb 4, 1945 The Yalta Conference. Feb 13, 1945 Attack to the German city of Dresden by the British Royal Air Forces. Apr 30, 1945 Death of Adolf Hitler. May 2, 1945 The Allies entered Berlin and Germany surrendered. Jul 17, 1945 The Potsdam Conference. Aug 6, 1945 Atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Aug 9, 1945 Atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Sep 2, 1945 Japan surrendered in the Second World War. Oct 24, 1945 The birth of the United Nations to replace the League of Nations.
