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Years Political/Diplomatic Social/Economic Religious/Intellectual/Cultural 1910- 1920 1914: Slav nationalists assassinates Austria’s Archduke Francis Ferdinand1914: Austria-Hungry declares war on Serbia1914: Germany declares war on Russia1914: Czar Nicholas ordered a general mobilization of his armed forces against Austria-Hungry and Germany1914: Germany issued Russia an ultimatum to cancel mobilization1914: Great Britain declares war on Germany1915: War of Western Front turned into the War of Attrition1915: At the Battle of Ypres, Germans introduced poisonous gasses1915: Germany and Austria-Hungry attempted to remove Russia from WWI1915: Allies staged land attack on the peninsula of Gallipoli1915: German submarines began attacking civilian and commercial ships1915: Sinking of American Ship Lusitania1916: Germans staged surprise attack on Verdun France. 1916: Battle of Jutland between Germany and Great Britain1917: American President asked Congress for Declaration of War1917: Czar Nicholas II abdicates1917: The Bolsheviks stage a coup d’etat in Petrograd1918: Bolshevik Russia and Germany sign Treaty of Brest-Litovsk1918: Woodrow Wilson presents Fourteen Points1918: Germans sign armistice1919: Reds and Whites fight civil war1919: Delegates form 27 nations Gathered for the Peace of Paris1919: Lenin had established the Communist International or Comintern 1919: Allies sign Treaty of Versailles 1919: Mussolini formed a new political party called the Fasci di Combattimento 1916: Woodrow Wilson threatened to sever diplomatic relations with Germany1917: United States broke diplomatic relations with Germany1917: American newspapers printed the Zimmerman telegram1920: The Nineteen the Amendment gave women the right to vote1920: The “red scare” began in United States 1921- 1930 1921: Lenin extended Communist control throughout Russia1922: Stalin elected to general secretary of the Communist party1922: Benito Mussolini becomes prime minister of Italy1922: Communists changed the official name of Russia to the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics1922: The Blackshirts, Mussolini’s followers, were formed1923: Hitler made an attempt to seize power1924: Mussolini elected to control Parliament1927: The Nationalists, the Chinese Communists, and the Japanese fought for control of China1928: Kellogg Briand Pact signed1928: Stalin declared war of the NEP1930: Nazis won a large number of seats in the multiparty Reichstag 1929: Wall Street Crash begins the Great Depression 1922: James Joyce Published Ulysses1925: The Great Gatsby written by Fitzgerald1927: The Jazz Singer changed motion pictures1930: The Jazz Age begins 1931- 1940 1931: Parliament passed the Statue of Westminster making the Commonwealth of Nations1931: King Alfronso XIII of Spain abdicated1932: Franklin D.
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Approximate Pages = 4.6
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