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Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
This assasination sparked WW1 with Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia -
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Gallipoli campaign
The evacuation was successessful as it let the Bristish take over the ottoman empire after the war. -
German resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare
Unrestricted submarine tactics: able to attack mercahnt ships without warning. Resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany in early 1917 was a key reason the United States entered the conflict. -
Bolshevik Revolution
started communist spread across the world and divided world: communism and capitalism -
Treaty of Brest-litovsk
Peace treaty between Russia and Germany to end Russia's participation in WW1 -
Paris Peace conference
meeting of allied victors. decided what to do with Germany and ended with an armistice. -
May Fourth Movement in China
began rejection of confuscianism. and Chinese protest of Japanese encoachment -
First meeting of the League of Nations
Organization of governments as a result of Treaty of paris -
Lenin's new economic policy
The policy was designed to give The USSR a capitalist approach to it's economic troubles. -
Mussolini launches fascist movement in Italy
Fascist Italy. Benito Mussolini crushes political opposition and establishes totalitarian rule. -
Ataturk proclaims Republic of Turkey
Created after the overthrowing of the Sultan and as a coup de grace to the Ottomans which had been practically wipped out. -
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First Soviet Five-Year Plan
List of collective socialist goals. Farmers would work on the same land with same equipment -
Civil Disobedience movement in India
showed the power of non-violent protest and gave way to new understanding of civil rights. Made britian give more freedom to Indians. -
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Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Japan created military bases and collected resources from Manchuria using forced inhabitant labor. -
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Long March by Chinese Communists
A series of marches by the communist party in retreat from the nationalist party of China. -
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Stalin's "Great Purge" in USSR
A large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials, repression of peasants and the Red Army leadership. -
Sandino is murdered in Nicaragua
Sandino is ambushed by the national guard and executed with his brother, father and poet. -
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Hitler is ruler of Germany
Hitler brings an end to german democracy and brings the Nazi party. he forced organizations to line with Nazi values and goals. -
Invasion of China by Japan
Result of decades of japanese imperialists looking to take China's resources especially food and labor. -
German Auschluss with Austria
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Cardenas Nationalizes oil industry in Mexico
declaration that all oil reserves found in Mexican soil belonged to the nation. Helped nationalization in mexico. -
Invasion of Poland by Germany
This event subsequently started WW2 -
Soviet victory in Stalingrad
Major war between Nazi Germany and Soviets. turning point in the european side of WW2 -
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Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
First atomic bombing by the U.S. on Japan to end ww2 in Japan -
Establishment of United Nations
U.N.'s primary purpose was to prevent future world wars. -
Partition of India
partition of the British Raj that led to the creation of the sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan -
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Aparthied in South Africa
a system of racial segregation in South Africa. Legislation classified inhabitants into four racial groups, "black", "white", "coloured", and "Indian" -
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Arab-Israeli War
As a result of the war, the State of Israel kept suggested area of land and 60% of new land -
Creation of israel
Created by Zionists and helped by the Mandate of Palestine -
Establishment of NATO
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 -
Establishment of People's Republic of China
the result of the climax of years of battle between Mao's communist forces and the regime of Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek -
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Korean War
war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, the north vs. south korea -
French Defeat Dien Bie Phu
the confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist -
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Algerian War of Liberation
war between France and the Algerian independence movement. Important war for decolonization -
Establishment of the warsaw Pact
a collective defense treaty among eight communist states ofCentral and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War -
Suez Crisis
a diplomatic and military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other. The U.S. Soviet Union, and U.N. urged for Britian and France to withdraw. -
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Great leap foward in China
campaign was led by Mao Zedong and aimed to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into acommunist society through rapid industrialization -
Castro comes to power in cuba
Castro becomes popular in Cuba as he reforms in favor of the common man -
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Sino-Soviet rift
the worsening of political and ideological relations between PRC and the USSR during the Cold War -
Creation of PLO
organization with the purpose of creating an independent State of Palestine -
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US troops in Vietnam
US sends troops in responce to Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
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Division of Berlin and Germany
With the division of berlin, the relationship between all allied powers disintigrated quickly -
Revolution in Iran
the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynastyunder Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who was supported by the United States, and its eventual replacement with an Islamic republic -
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Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
Geneva accords: Afghanistan and Pakistan signed three instruments-on principles of mutual relations, U.S. and USSR signed a declaration on international guarantees, stating they would both refrain from any form of interference and intervention -
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Iran-Iraq war
began when Iraq invaded Iran via air and land.followed a long history of border disputes, and Iraq's desire to replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf state -
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Persian Gulf War
started due to Kuwait's invasion of iraqi troops and was met by international condemnation -
Construction of the berlin wall
the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration from the the socialist russia, to allied west berlin -
Collapse of the USSR
increasing political unrest led the establishment of the Soviet military and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to attempt to out Mikhail gorbachev