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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. Roosevelt elected President in US1933: Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany1933: Japan withdrew form the League of Nations1934: "Night of Long Knives" Hitler had Browshirts leaders shot1934: Italy invaded Ethiopia1934: Stalin put Makisn Gorky in charge of all of the Union's culture.1934: Hitler tried to take over Austria but backed down1935: the Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their citizenship1936: Mussolini formed the annexed African state.1936: Right-wing army chiefs staged un uprising in Spain1936: The Nationalists had taken most of Spain1936: Hitler and Mussolini agreed to the Rome-Berlin Axis1936: Joseph Stalin carries out purges of party and government leaders in the Soviet Union1938: Hitler demanded Germans be given the right to self-determination 1938: Hitler demanded that Sudetenland be given to Germany1939: Hitler sent armies into Czechoslovakia1939: The Soviet Union and Germany signed the Nazi-Soviet Nonagression Pact1939: Hitler sent armies to the Polish frontier1940: Norway blocked trading with Germany1940: King George VI summoned Winston Churchill to Buckingham Palace1940: Germans invaded the Netherlands1940: Luftware began to bomb Britain's southern coast1940: An assassin of Stalin murdered Trotsky1940: The Japanese announces its plan to create " Asia for Asiatics"1940: Mussolini declared war on France and Britain 1932: I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gain1939: Mr. Smith Foes to Washington
1941- 1950 1941: Communist parties came to power in China and North Korea1941: The Japanese set sail for Hawaii1941: German forces sweeping through Yugoslavia and Greece forced British in a second Dunkirk1941: Hitler launched mission Barbarossa1941: Germans had pushed 600 miles into the Soviet Union1941: Nazi leaders carried out plans to exterminate all of the Jews in Europe1941: Roosevelt demanded that Japan withdrew from Asia and China1941: Germany and Italy declared war on the United States1941:Japanese forces had captured the British colony Hong Kong1942: Nazi party and German government leaders secretly agreed to the "final solution"1942: Germans transported Jews to camps1942: United States told Stalin that there would be no second front1942: The Battle of the Coral Sea the Allies won against the Japanese forces1943: Japanese kamikazes volunteered for suicide1943: German officers surrendered1943: The British capture of Tripoli, the capital of Libya1943: General von Arnim surrendered in Tunisia1943: American and British leaders met in Casablanca in Morocco to discuss the war1943: The Allies began a combined air and sea attack on Sicily, Italy1944: The Allies fought their way up the Italian Peninsula1944: The Allies dislodged German forces1944: the Allies entered into Rome, Italy1944: Allied victory over Japan seemed inevitable1944: D-Day, the invasion of Allies on Germany1944: Allies pushed Germans out of Soviet Territory1945: The Allies stormed across the Rhine River1945: Allies defeated Japan in battles on Iwo Jima and Okinawa1945:American planes dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945: Representatives gather in San Francisco to draft the Charter of the United Nations1945:Harry S. Truman elected president of United States1945: German territory divided into four zones1947: United States developed a new foreign policy1947: Truman applied for the containment policy1947: United States assumed British responsibilities in the Mediterranean1947: George Marshall, Secretary of State of the US, proposed the Marshall Plan 1948: Czechoslovakia was taken over by Communists1949: West Germany was proclaimed, its capital was Bonn 1941: Winston Churchill met with Roosevelt to discuss war aims1949: The Soviets successfully exploded the first atomic bomb 1946: Churchill first used the phrase "iron curtain" in a speech in Fulton
1951- 1960 1952: NATO expanded to include Greece and Turkey1952: The monarch George VI died1953: Stalin ruled until his death1954: Eisenhower agreed to shoulder France's efforts to stop Communist activity in Vietnam1955: The Warsaw Pact was signed1955: West Germany joined NATO1956: The Soviet Union began its de-Stalinization1957: Representatives of the six nations meeting in Rome1958: The threat of civil war in Algeria resulted in the downfall of France's Fourth Republic 1951: Western economies were prospering1951: Communist prospects in countries were prospering1956: The Highway Act contributes to the growth of suburbs1957: The launch of Sputnik I, the world's first space satellite
1961- 1970 1961: The Berlin Wall is built in Germany1962: John F. Kennedy succeeded Eisenhower as United States President 1963: Gaulle blocked Great Britain's membership into the Europeans Common Market1963: President John F. Kennedy's assassination1963: Pearson became Canada's prime minister1964: Khrushchev was removed from office1968: The Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia1968: The Soviet Union appealed to the Treaty of Warsaw to justify the invasion of Czechoslovakia1968: American
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...