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Gandhi
Gandhi is considered by many to be the political and ideological leader of the Indian Revolution with his philosophies on nonviolence and peace. -
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Juan Peron
Juan Peron was an Argentine military officer, and politician. Perón was three times elected as President of Argentina though he only managed to serve one full term. -
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World War 1
World War 1 was a major war centred on Europe involving all of the world's great powers, caused by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. -
Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. -
Wilson's 14-point Plan
Wilson's Fourteen Points became the basis for a peace programme and it was on the back of the Fourteen Points that Germany and her allies agreed to an armistice in November 1918. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
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League of Nations
The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended World War I. The League was the first permanent international security organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. -
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Chinese Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was a civil war fought between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China. To this day, since no armistice or peace treaty has ever been signed, there is controversy as to whether the Civil War has legally ended. -
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Stalin's 5-year Plans
Stalin's 5-year plans for the Soviet Union were a series of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development. -
Great Depression Starts
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the 20th century. In the 21st century. -
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Hitler Comes to Power
The Great Depression gave Hitler and the Nazi party a boost in popularity by promising change to a devastated Germany. Upon the death of Hindenburg in August 1934, Hitler was the consensus successor. With an improving economy, Hitler claimed credit and consolidated his position as a dictator. -
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World War 2
World War 2 was a global military conflict that involved most of the world's nations, including all of the great powers: eventually forming two opposing military alliances, the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history. -
Indian Independence
The Indian Independence movement involved a series of events with the purpose of ending the East India Trading Company and the British colonial authority in India. -
Creation of Pakistan
Once the Indian Revolution had gone underway, seperate Muslim groups demanded their own country with the given name Pakistan. The movement ultimately achieved success in 1947, when part of northwest India was partitioned, granted independence and renamed Pakistan. -
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Cold War
The Cold War was a time of political conflictt, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World and the powers of the Western world. -
NATO is Started
NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
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Mao Zedong & Maoism
Maoism is an anti-Revisionist form of Marxist communist theory brought up through the teachins of Mao Zedong, and was developed during the 1950's and the 1960's. -
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Korean War
The Korean War was brought about by North Korea's invasion of South Korea brought about a United Nations' "police action" against the aggressors. That immediately produced heavy military and naval involvement by the United States. The overall conflict was very violent. -
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Warsaw Pact
The treaty was a mutual defense treaty subscribed to by eight communist states in Eastern Europe. It was established at the USSR’s initiative and realized on 14 May 1955, in Warsaw. -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. It was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the U.S. and other anti-communist nations. -
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Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign of the Communist Party of China that aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a modern communist society through the process of agriculturalization, industrialization, and collectivization. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. -
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Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of night and for 28 years kept East Germans from fleeing to the West. Its destruction, which was nearly as instantaneous as its creation, was celebrated around the world. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missle Crisis started when Russia set up missles in Cuba in order to have an advantage over the United States. The agreement to take the missles down was eventually made when the United States promised not to invade Cuba. -
Helsinki Accords
The Helsinki Accords recognized the borders of Europe, as they had been at the end of World War II, thus recognizing Soviet domination of the Baltic States. It was signed by 35 nations. -
Islamic Revolution (Iran)
The Islamic Revolution refers to events involving the overthrow of Iran's monarchy. Its outcome was an Islamic Republic. -
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Iran-Iraq War
The Iran-Iraq War began with an Iraqi land and air invasion of western Iran. Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini declared that Iran would not cease fighting until Saddam's regime was toppled. -
Tiananmen Square Protests
The Tiananmen Square Protests were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the People's Republic of China. -
Reunification of Germany
The Reunification of Germany was the process in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany. -
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USSR Disinteegrates
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was a process of systematic disintegration, which occurred in its economy, social structure and political structure. It resulted in the destruction of the Soviet Federal Government. -
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Nelson Mandela's Presidency
Nelson Mandela served as the president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. -
September 11, 2001
On the given date, Islamist extremists hi-jacked several airliners in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States. As one of the first attacks on US soil in a long period of history, the 9/11 attacks are to be oone of the most memorable moments the US history.