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Units 7-9 Timeline: 1900-2016

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    Part 1: 1900-Start of WWII

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    Russo-Japanese War

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    Mexican Revolution

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    Qing Empire collapses

  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    The assassination of Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Black Hand secret society, is cited as the catalyst of World War I. However, the initial purpose of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's South Slav provinces. The movement the conspirators' motives paralleled later became known as Young Bosnia.

  • Start of WWI

    Exactly one month after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, World War I begins.

  • Start of Armenian Genocide

  • Russian Revolution

  • Lenin gains power

    Vladimir Lenin seized control of Russia in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

  • End of WWI

    On the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the Great War came to a halt. Earlier that morning, Germany, overwhelmed and exhausted, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies. Later, the Treaty of Versailles, signed June 28, 1919, ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.

  • HIV/AIDS is discovered

  • US women can vote

  • Russia becomes the USSR

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed by a treaty signed by Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and modern-day Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The brand new Communist Party, led by Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, took control of the government.

  • Stalin gains power

  • Ottoman Empire collapse

  • Mussolini takes control of Italy

    Benito Mussolini was elected to the Italian parliament as the leader of the National Fascist Party by 1921. On January 3, 1925, he asserted his right to supreme power and became the dictator of Italy in a speech to parliament. Afterward, members of a Fascist paramilitary group, known as Blackshirts, marched on Rome and demanded the king install Mussolini as Prime Minister, which he subsequently did.

  • Penicillin created

  • Onset of the Great Depression

  • Gandhi led marches

  • Spanish Republic Formed

  • Hitler gains control of Germany

    The Enabling Act of 1933, passed after Adolf Hitler became Prime Minister, allowed him to constitutionally exercise dictatorial power without facing legal resistance.

  • The Long March

  • Nuremberg Laws passed

    The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany by the Reichstag. The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour forbade marriages between Germans and people of Jewish descent. The Reich Citizenship Law decreed that only people of German blood were eligible to be Reich citizens.

  • Munich Agreement

  • Kristallnacht

    Nazis in Germany torched synagogues; vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses; and killed close to 100 Jews. Afterward, some 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps.

  • Official start of WWII

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    Part 2: WWII-2016

  • Winston Churchill named Prime Minister

  • Pearl Harbor

  • USA enters WWI

    The U.S. was motivated to join World War II after the Bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.

  • Yalta Conference

  • UN Established

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    Yalta Conference

  • USA drops atomic bomb on Japan

  • Official end of WWII

  • UN Established

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Marshall Plan

  • WHO established

  • Comecon

  • NATO

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    Korean War

  • Warsaw Pact

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    Vietnam War

  • The Suez Crisis

  • Sputnik launched

  • Great Leap Forward

    The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party. Its purpose was to convert the country from an agrarian economy to a communist society.

  • Birth Control approved for widespread use

  • Berlin Wall put up

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Civil Rights Act

  • MLKjr assassinated

  • Greenpeace founded

  • Augusto Pinochet takes power in Chile

  • Ebola discovered

  • Deng Xiaoping leads China

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    Contra War

    The war began as a series of rebellions against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua that overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in 1979.

  • Gorbachev comes into power

  • Al-Qaeda organized

  • Tiananmen Square

  • Berlin Wall taken down

  • USSR becomes Russia

  • Apartheid ends

  • Rwanda Massacre

  • Mandela put in prison and elected president

  • NAFTA established

  • WTO takes over GATT

  • Anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle

  • Brexit

  • Paris Agreement