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World War
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (heir to the Crown of Austria Hungary).
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Austria-Hungary and Serbia declare war. Germany invades France and Belgium. First Battle of the Marne. -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia and invades it the next day.
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Germany declares war on Russia and France, its ally, two days later
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England declares war on Germany
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Germany takes the Belgian city of Liège and on the 20th enters Brussels.
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Japan declares war on Germany.
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First Battle of the Marne (east of Paris). A Franco-British counteroffensive stops the German advance, less than 40 kilometers from Paris, and drives them back.
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The United States declares war on Germany.
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The situation forces Soviet Russia to sign the peace of Brest-Litovsk.
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The Battle of the Somme (France) takes place, the deadliest: 1.2 million dead and thousands of wounded.
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Bulgaria asks for an armistice and Germany thinks of surrendering.
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The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice.
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End of the war. Germany calls for an armistice and the subsequent signing of the Versailles peace treaty (1919).
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Signing of the Versailles Peace Treaty, which imposes severe territorial and economic punishment on Germany. EFE
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World War II
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The invasion of German troops in Poland
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The declaration of war by France and Great Britain on Germany.
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The German invasion of Northern Europe
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The fall of Paris to the Germans on June 14, 1940.
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• Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
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The Allied landing in Normandy
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The Battle of Normandy and the liberation of Paris
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The Soviets launch their final offensive and encircle Berlin.
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• The death of Benito Mussolini
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Hitler commits suicide.
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Capitulation of Germany.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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Japan, having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, formally surrenders, ending World War II.
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Cold war
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Korean War (1950). Conflict derived from the invasion of North Korea, supported by the socialist bloc, to South Korea, which received the support of the United States and the capitalist bloc.
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War of Vietnam (1955). The tension was unleashed between the National Liberation Front against South Vietnam, which received military support from the United States
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Checkpoint Charly (1961). Russian and American tanks were aimed between them for five days after Russian military register a US diplomat in Berlin's border crossing.
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Missile Crisis (1962). The United States discovered Russian missiles in Cuba, for which it threatened to invade the island. Russia withdrew the missiles to prevent the invasion.
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End of the Cold War In March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and applied the policies of Glasnost and Perestroika.