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1# The assassination of Archduke Franz
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria took place in in Sarajevo the capital of the Austro Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The assassination was perpetrated by a Serbian terrorist group called The Black Hand and the man who shot Franz Ferdinand and his wife was a Bosnian revolutionary called Gavrilo Princip. -
2# Austria Hungary Declared war!
Them declaring war on Serbia and WW1 begins, and after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, The battle started on The day he died. But it really happened a few days later. -
3# Subs go back into war
German subs go back to fight in world war I and they also fought a little in world war II and the thought of the Germans using this was scary cause they alliance asked not. -
4# Wilson shows his plan
President Wilson outlines his case for war to congress where and when to attack and who to take out first and how to do it. -
5# Spain becomes a republic with overthrow of King Alfonso XIII
German industrialists finance 800,000-strong Nazi party. British parliament enacts statute of Westminster, legalizing dominion equality with Britain. Mukden Incident begins Japanese occupation of Manchuria. In U.S. Hoover proposes one-year moratorium of war debts. Harold C. Urey discovers heavy hydrogen. Gangster Al Capone sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion (freed in 1939 dies in 1947). Notorious Scottsboro trial begins, exposing depth of Southern racism. Star spangled is theirs. -
6# Hitler is basically in charge at this point.
Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria assassinated by Nazis. Hitler becomes führer. USSR admitted to League of Nations. Dionne sisters, first quintuplets to survive beyond infancy, born in Canada. Mao Zedong begins the Long March north with 100,000 soldiers. -
7# How Hitler took over
Hitler took over by moving up in rank fairly quickly over a few weeks into a month. -
8# Germany invades Poland
occupies Bohemia and Moravia; renounces pact with England and concludes 10-year non-aggression pact with USSR. Russo-Finnish War begins; Finns to lose one-tenth of territory in 1940 peace treaty. World War II begins. -
9# President of USA
President Roosevelt died shortly after WW II and he was more to allied than fighting. -
10# Another quick fact.
There was a Cold War between the United States and Russia after the end of the Second World War until the collapse of the USSR (1947-1991). The wars in Afghanistan, Vietnam and Korea were, in a sense, proxy wars between the two nations.
