World History timeline

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    WWI

    World War I was a military conflict lasting from 1914-1918 which involved nearly all the biggest powers of the world. It involved two opposing alliances- the Allies and the Central Powers.
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    Mussolini starts his own newspaper

    II Popolo d'Italia was an Italian newspaper published from 15 November 1914 until 24 July 1943. It was founded by Benito Mussolini as a pro-war newspaper of the fascist movement in Italy after the war.
  • February Revolution

    February Revolution

    This was the first stage of the Russian Revolution in 1917. The monarchy was overthrown and replaced by the Provisional Government.
  • October Revolution

    October Revolution

    The October Revolution overturned the interim provisional government and established the Soviet Union. The October Revolution was a much more deliberate event, orchestrated by a small group of people. The Bolsheviks, who led this coup, prepared their coup in only six months
  • Treaty of Versailles Signed

    Treaty of Versailles Signed

    The Treaty of Versalles is one of the most controversial armistice treaties in history. The treaty's so-called "war guilt" clause forced Germany and other Central Powers to take all the blame for WWI. The meant a loss of territories reduction in ,military forces, and reparation payments to Allied Powers
  • Stalin takes power in the Soviet Union

    Stalin takes power in the Soviet Union

    Serving in the Russian Civil War before overseeing the Soviet Union's establishment in 1922, Stalin assumed leadership over the country following Lenin's death in 1924. Under Stalin, socialism in one country became a central tenet of the party's dogma.
  • Mussolini becomes Prime Minister

    Mussolini becomes Prime Minister

    On 31 October 1922, following the March on Rome. Mussolini was appointed prime minister by King Victor Emmanuel III, becoming the youngest individual to hold the office up to time
  • Spain becomes a Republic

    The Spanish Republic historiographically referred to as the first Spanish Republic, was the political regime that existed in Spain from 11 February 1874. The Republic's founding ensued after the abdication of King Amadeo on 10 February 1873.
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    Holodomur

    The Holodomer, also known as the Terror-Famine or the Great Famine, was a famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932-1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. It also caused mass starvation in the grain-growing regions of Soviet Russia and Kazahstan
  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party, He ruled absolutely until his death by suicide in April 1945
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    Mussolini invades Ethiopia

    Ethiopia, one of the only two independent African nations at the time, was invaded on Oct. 3 1935 by Fascist Italy under Bentio Mussolini. The Italians committed countries atrocities on the independent African State. Poisonous gas, aerial bombardment, flame throwers, and concentration camps were all employed.
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    Stalin's Great Purge

    Between 1936 and 1938, three very large Moscow Trials of former senior Communist Party leaders were held. In which they were accused of conspiring with fascist and capitalist powers to assassinate Stalin and other Soviet leaders, dismember the Soviet Union and restore capitalism.
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    The Spanish Civil War

    Spanish Civil War, (1936–39), military revolt against the Republican government of Spain, supported by conservative elements within the country. When an initial military coup failed to win control of the entire country, a bloody civil war ensued, fought with great ferocity on both sides.
  • Franco takes power in Spain

    Franco takes power in Spain

    The general and dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975) ruled over Spain from 1939 until his death. He rose to power during the bloody Spanish Civil War when, with the help of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, his Nationalist forces overthrew the democratically elected Second Republic.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung paramilitary forces along with civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. The German authorities looked on without intervening