World Wars

By book_smartz

  • Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

    On June 28, 1914, a teenage Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, as their motorcade maneuvered through the streets of Sarajevo.

  • Operation Barbarossa

    Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.
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    Germany invades Belgium

  • Battle of the Marne

    The Battle of the Marne (French: Première bataille de la Marne, also known as the Miracle of the Marne) was a First World War battle. It resulted in an Allied victory against the German Army.

  • Sinking of Lusitania

    A British passenger ship sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland in 1915. Germany, then at war with Britain but not with the United States (see World War I), had warned Americans against traveling on the ship. More than a hundred Americans died in the sinking.
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    Battle of Verdun

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    Battle of Jutland

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    Battle of Somme

  • Zimmerman Telegram

    The Zimmermann Telegram (or Zimmermann Note) was an internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January, 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States' entering World War I against Germany.

  • February Revolution

    the revolution against the czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March 1917.

  • US declares war

    Now up until just before the U.S. declared war on April 6th, 1917, the U.S. had desperately tried to stay neutral, but ties to Britain, propaganda, the sinking of ships by German U-boats, and a German attempt in the Zimmermann Note to get Mexico to declare war on the U.S. pushed the U.S. to getting involved.
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    October Revolution

  • Treaty of Brest - Litovsk

    The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I.

  • Paris Peace Conference

    The Paris Peace Conference, also known as Versailles Peace Conference, was the meeting of the Allied victors, following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers following the armistices of 1918

  • Armistice Day

    Armistice Day marks the end of the First World War and is a day to remember and honor those who have paid the price for our freedom. The nation pays their respects to those killed in conflicts since the beginning of the First World War.

  • Benito Mussolini's March on Rome

    The March on Rome (Italian: Marcia su Roma) was a march by which Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista, or PNF) came to power in the Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia).
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    Beer Hall Putsch

  • Vladimir Lenin dies

    In Moscow, shock and near-hysterical grief greets the news that Vladimir Lenin, leader of the radical socialist Bolshevik movement that toppled the czarist regime in 1917 and head of the first government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), had died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage.

  • Joseph Stalin comes to power

    This date is random because we do not know when he came to power. Joseph Stalin's Rise to Power. In 1912, Lenin, then in exile in Switzerland, appointed Joseph Stalin to serve on the first Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. Three years later, in November 1917, the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia. The Soviet Union was founded in 1922, with Lenin as its first leader.

  • Adolf Hitler is elected

    This date is random because we do not know when he was elected, just the year. The incumbent President, Paul von Hindenburg, first elected in 1925, was re-elected to a second seven-year term of office. His major opponent in the election was Adolf Hitler of the Nazi Party (NSDAP).
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    Great Depression

    The end date is a random date for it to end. It ended in 1939.

  • Japan invades Manchuria

  • Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

  • Anschluss

  • Munich Conference

  • Kristallnacht

  • Nazi Soviet Non Aggression Pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact)

  • Germany invades Portugal

  • Nazi invasion of France

  • Battle of Britain

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Battle of Stalingrad

  • Battle of Coral Sea

  • Battle of Midway Island

  • Battle of El-Alamein

  • D-Day

  • V-E Day

  • Atomic bombing of Nagasaki

  • Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

  • V-J Day