WWI & WWII

  • Ottoman invades Austria

    Ottoman Empire sought to invade Austria to extend their grip on the Balkans but they were defeated in the siege of Vienna.
  • Serbia

    Serbia revolts against Ottoman Turk rule and gains sovereignty in 1830.
  • Ottoman to Austria

    Ottomans cede Balkan territories to Austria.
  • One German Country

    German territorial states unify and become one country.
  • Russia VS Ottomans

    Russia defeats Ottomans in Rumania so they could protect their co-religionists and at the Treaty of San Stefano creates Rumania as a sovereign nation.
  • Triple Entente/Triple Alliance

    Triple Entente joins Great Britain, France and Russia in defense pact. Also Triple Alliance joins Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy in defense pact, but Italy makes a secret agreement with France that they will not respect their prior pact.
  • German Supports Austrian-Hungary

    German declares that they support Austrian-Hungary rights in the Balkans and makes bellicose statements toward Russia which Germany believes is ill prepared to go to war with Germany.
  • Archduke Assassination

    Archduke Assassination
    Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo. His death is one of the events that sparks WW1.
  • Russia Mobilizes

    Russia Mobilizes
    Russia mobilizes its army to intervene against Austria- Hungary in favor of its ally, Siberia. Chain reaction that led to the mobilization of the rest of the European Great powers.
  • World War 1 Begins

    World War 1 Begins
    Germany invaded Belgium, starting the war.
  • Germany and Russia Peace

    Germany and Russia Peace
    Germans sign a peace treaty with the new Bolshevik government of Russia.
    - Germany got huge lands
    - able to move soldiers to the Western front which causes serious problems for French, British, and Americans
  • Battle of Cantigny

    First major American offensive of the war.
  • Armistice Sign

    Armistice Sign
    Germany signed an armistice that had been prepared by Britain and France.
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Formally ended WW1
    (https://youtu.be/vrYhLNQMRro)
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Although the treaty helped stop the war it led to the destruction of germany's economy because they were forced to pay reparations. Their people were starving and government was in chaos. (https://youtu.be/0jycVFL8CNM)
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    Great depression

    Great economic suffering. People were out of work and just struggling to survive which created unstable governments and worldwide turmoil.
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    Japanese Expansion

    Japan started to grow but did not have the means to grow so they started to spread to other places and invaded Manchuria in 1931 and China in 1937.
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  • Hitler and the Nazi Party

    Hitler and the Nazi Party
    In 1934 was proclaimed the leader and became the dictator of Germany. Even with the treaty of Versailles Hitler started to rearm his country.
  • Beginning

    Germany invades Poland. World War II begins.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
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    Surrender

    Germany surrenders to the Allies. Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies.
  • Greek Revolt

    The Greeks revolted against Ottoman rule.