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Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated
Franz Ferdinand was killed Bosnian Serb. This event created a domino effect cause WWI -
Russian Revolution March 8, 1917 – June 16, 1923
Working class people of Russia revolted against the government of Tsar Nicholas II. They were led by Vladimir Lenin and a group of revolutionaries called the Bolsheviks. The end of the Russian Revolution created the country of the Soviet Union. -
Paris Peace Conference
Paris Peace Conference was meet to establish the terms of the peace after World War. -
Mussolini’s March on Rome
Mussolini came to power in Italy. The March was the beginning of fascist rule. -
Adolf Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party attempt to overthrow the German government. They began at the Bürgerbräu Keller, a beer hall in the Bavarian city of Munich. -
Stalin’s First Five Year Plan
Joseph Stalin, concentrated on developing heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture, at the cost of a drastic fall in consumer goods. -
Second Italo-Ethiopian War
On November 22, 1934, Italian forces marched fifty miles into Ethiopia and clashed with Ethiopian troops at Wal Wal, leaving one hundred and fifty Ethiopians and two Italians dead. -
Germany violates the Treaty of Versailles by reoccupying the Rhineland
German troops marched into the Rhineland and build an army. -
Spanish Civil War
The military turn against the Republican government of Spain. In the end the military failed at taking over Spain. -
Rape of Nanjing/Nanking in China
The Japanese killed 150,000 male “war prisoners,” murder an additional 50,000 male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages, many of whom were mutilated or killed in the process. -
France surrenders to the Axis Powers
French government signed an armistice with Nazi Germany . -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, 18 US warships had been sunk or damaged, 188 aircraft destroyed and 2,403 American servicemen and women killed. -
Battle of Guadalcanal
Guadalcanal air base was important to control of the sea lines. Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Soviet Union won against a German offensive that attempted to take the city of Stalingrad -
Battle of El Alamein
North African campaign between the British Empire and the German-Italian army. -
D-Day
Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. With a huge force of over 150,000 soldiers, the Allies attacked and gained a victory that became the turning point for World War II in Europe. -
Potsdam conference
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
United States dropped two nuclear weapons over two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
MacArthur’s Plan for Japan
Primary purpose of the occupation was to disarm Japan and to punish the war criminals so that Japan would never again be a menace to the Allied countries. -
United Nations formed
51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights. -
Marshall Plan
European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. Economic redevelopment, Marshall Plan was to halt the spread communism on the European continent. -
NATO formed
NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
Warsaw Pact formed
Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. Konev of the Soviet Union -
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