WWI & WWII Events

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassination

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassination

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip be was killed because the assassination's strategic aim was to divide Austria south Hungary's Slav regions so that they could be merged into a Yugoslavia.
  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution

    One of the most explosive revolutionaries during the twentieth century was the Russian Revolution of 1917. The bloody revolution brought the Romanov monarchy to an end, as well as decades of Russian Imperial rule. The Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, took power during the Russian Revolution and overthrew the czarist regime. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • Paris Peace Conference

    Paris Peace Conference

    the Paris peace conferences signed to come to term to paces after WWI.
  • Mussolini’s March on Rome

    Mussolini’s March on Rome

    the Italian uprising that brought Benito Mussolini to power The March signaled the start of fascist dictatorship and the end of the previous communist and liberal parliamentary regimes.
  • Adolf Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch

    Adolf Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch

    beer hall putsch (the Munich Putsch) violent failure by the nazi party Adolf Hitler and other people, a failed takeover of the government in Bavaria, a state in southern Germany. Since 1921, Hitler had led the Nazi Party, a fledgling political group that promoted German pride and anti-Semitism and was unhappy with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles,
  • Stalin’s First Five Year Plan

    Stalin’s First Five Year Plan

    Joseph Stalin's policies centered on expanding heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture at the risk of a large decline in consumer products.
  • Second Italo-Ethiopian War

    Second Italo-Ethiopian War

    The invasion of Ethiopia was intended to raise Italian national prestige, which had been damaged by Ethiopia's defeat of Italian forces at the Battle of Adowa, which had spared Ethiopia from Italian colonization. This was seen as an excuse for occupying Abyssinia.
  • Germany violates the Treaty of Versailles by reoccupying the Rhinelan

    Germany violates the Treaty of Versailles by reoccupying the Rhinelan

    The treaty of Versailles was so that Germany was to surrender the clines in Africa Asia and the pacific brought WWI to an end, 5 years later Germany violates this agreement that was signed. Hitler reoccupied and remilitarized the Rhineland that violated the Treaty of Versailles.
  • Spanish Civil War

    Spanish Civil War

    as a result of the collapse of Spanish democracy, This defeat was triggered by the Spanish political parties' and organizations' inability to negotiate and uphold democratic norms. (Franco was victorious in the war.)
  • Rape of Nanjing/Nanking in China

    Rape of Nanjing/Nanking in China

    Rape of Nanjing mass killing and ravaging of Chinese citizens and capitulated soldiers by soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army after its seizure of Nanjing, in China during the Sino-Japanese War that preceded World War II. many people in china were killed raging from 100,000- 300,000 people.
  • Germany’s blitzkrieg on Poland

    Germany’s blitzkrieg on Poland

    German forces under the control of Adolf Hitler bombard Poland on air and land. Was the start of World War II. The Nazis accounted for the invasion by Poland had been planning to invade Germany.
  • France surrenders to the Axis Powers (Vichy France)

    France surrenders to the Axis Powers (Vichy France)

    The U.S. also, British powers arrived in North Africa; the fundamental units of the French armada were left by their groups at Toulon to forestall their falling into German hands.
  • bombing Pearl harbor

    bombing Pearl harbor

    Oct 1940 us had cracked one of the secret codes the Japanese used
    U.s to know what the Japanese had planned for Southeast Asia
    Japanese planed included inviting the asain colonies of European countries
    Dec 7, 1941, launched a surprise attack against us naval base at pearl harbor
    U.S sent aid to China to cut off oil shipments when japan invaded
    more than 2300 Americans were killed, and over 1100 wounded.
  • Battle of Guadalcanal

    Battle of Guadalcanal

    General Douglas MacArthur developed an island-hopping strategy to defend the Japanese in the pacific
    in the Solomon island
    air force base built by the Japanese and if we take it could be a good outcome
    land and air fighting
    after 6 months of the Japanese abandoned the island
    very violent war
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad

    The Luftwaffe began mightly bombing runs on the Soviet city of Stalingrad, the Soviet army surrounded the city trapping the government army cutting their supplies off.
    the soviet loses 1 million soldiers.
  • The Battle of El Alamein

    The Battle of El Alamein

    A small town in Egypt northern Africa west of Alexandria
    the german Africa crops were massed there when the British attacked from the east, the Germans retreated
    Hitler threatens to invade Bulgaria Romania Hungary Yugoslavia and Greece if they don't agree to join axis power
    The Battle of El Alamein apparent the conclusion of the World War II North African campaign middle from two points the British Empire and the German-Italian company.
  • D-day

    D-day

    attack german-occupied France
    air bombing occurred beforehand to knock out bridges and make Hitler think the invasion would be els where
    in the region of Normandy France
    Britain u.s and Canadian force launch attack air and sea
    heavy casualties they knew many people would die
    ends August 1944 all of the northern France was liberated and the invading forces for Germany
  • Potsdam conference

    Potsdam conference

    The remainders of the World War II gatherings held by the "Large Three" heads of state. Highlighting American President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, the discussions set up a Council of Foreign Ministers and a focal Allied Control Council for the organization of Germany.
  • Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    The decision is made to use the stomach bond to end the war quickly (little Boy) (fat man). A dome bomb became a memorial.
  • United Nations formed

    United Nations formed

    us was the only world power that had not been stargate destroys in WWLL
    u.s met with western European countries to discuss solutions
  • MacArthur’s Plan for Japan

    MacArthur’s Plan for Japan

    Wanted to protect emperor Hirohito because “though him it was possible
    japan was not allowed to start the war unless it are attacked first
    they would not rebuild the \military

    u.s invested billions in japans my after WWII
    wanted to make japan a trending partner
    japan is one of the most develo[ed advanced and stable countries in the world
  • Marshall plan

    Marshall plan

    President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. known as the Marshall Plan,
  • NATO formed

    NATO formed

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization which looked to make a stabilizer to Soviet militaries positioned in focal and eastern Europe after World War II.
  • Warsaw Pact formed

    Warsaw Pact formed

    The Soviet Union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a collective security alliance concluded between the United States, Canada, and Western European nations

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